Margot Kidder Filmography

Confessions of a Superhero

Actors: Christopher Lloyd Dennis, Joe McQueen, Jennifer Gehrt, Maximus "Batman" Allen, Leron Gubler

Synopsis: Four mere mortals adapt the personas of their favorite superhero characters, and filmmaker Matt Ogens chronicles the lives and ambitions of this curious quartet in a documentary that explores the allure of fame on the sidewalks of Hollywood Boulevard. Being a superhero isn't as easy as it appears Read More

Who Do You Think You Are?: Margot Kidder

Actors: Margot Kidder

Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Reconstructed using archival film and sound elements long thought to be extinct, this special cut of Superman II pieces together unseen footage shot by Richard Donner in order to present the most comprehensive version of what was to be the original cut of the blockbuster sequel. As initially Read More

Chicks With Sticks

Robson Arms: Season 01

Hockey Mom

Synopsis: The lead character in Hockey Mom is a tough-minded single mother who loves to play the title sport. In order to silence the taunts of her workmates she challenges the men to play the woman in a game of hockey. Her competitive fires burn, but that may cost her a boyfriend and causes a riff with her Read More

Mary Higgins Clark's I'll Be Seeing You

Actors: Alison Eastwood, Bo Svenson, Margot Kidder, Iris Quinn, Mark Humphrey

Synopsis: Alison Eastwood, daughter of actor/director Clint Eastwood, stars in this made-for-TV nailbiter as Patricia Collins, a TV journalist who is summoned to the city morgue to look at the body of a young female murder victim. Patricia is shocked to discover that the dead girl is her exact double Read More

Death 4 Told

Synopsis: Time and space connect four bone chilling tales of terror in this horror anthology from filmmakers Bo Buckley and C. Michael Close. The first tale, entitled "The Doll's House" follows a writer experiencing a creative block as he moves into a new house that's unexpectedly occupied. The screams keep Read More

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Actors: Dede Allen, Peter Bart, Andrew Cohen, Tony Bill, Karen Black

Synopsis: Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable onscreen. Influenced by such European Read More

Society's Child

Synopsis: Ten-year-old Nikki Best (Kyley Statham) is a beautiful, intelligent and precocious child. She also suffers from Rett Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder which prohibits her from speaking more than a few words without assistance. Unable or unwilling to understand Nikki's ailment, the doctors and Read More

Crime and Punishment

Actors: Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Vanessa Redgrave, Margot Kidder

Angel Blade

Actors: David Heavener, Marc Singer, Margot Kidder, Richard Moll, Louis Mandylor

Synopsis: An emotionally damaged cop investigating a spree of prostitute killings discovers that the dark side of Las Vegas is decidedly more grim than he ever suspected in director David Heavener's gruesome thriller. When a series of teenaged prostitutes fall to the blade of a murderous madman and Read More

The Annihilation of Fish

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: Charles Burnett directed this offbeat comic romance about a pair of aging eccentrics whose imaginary companions sometimes interfere with their "real" lives. Fish (James Earl Jones) is an elderly Jamaican expatriate who has spend much of his adult life in a mental institution in New York. One of Read More

The Hi-Line

Actors: Rachael Leigh Cook, Ryan Alosio, Tantoo Cardinal, Margot Kidder, Stuart Margolin

Synopsis: Award-winning soundman Ron Judkins makes his directorial debut in this drama about family ties and how they can unravel. Vera (Rachel Leigh Cook) is a young woman with little in the way of ambitions or goals who still lives with her parents, Clyde and Laura (Stuart Margolin and Margot Kidder), in Read More

Tribulation

Actors: Gary Busey, Margot Kidder, Nick Mancuso, Howie Mandel

Synopsis: A cop used to chasing bad guys finds himself up against the ultimate villain of all time in this Christian-themed thriller. Tom Canburo (Gary Busey) is a police detective whose work doesn't leave him with much room in his life for the intangibles of faith. Tom's sister, Eileen (Margot Kidder) Read More

Common Ground

Actors: Ed Asner, Beau Bridges, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Harvey Fierstein, Terrence McNally, and Paula Vogel each wrote episodes for this three-part made-for-cable drama which examines changing attitudes and issues facing the gay and lesbian community in the small town of Homer, Connecticut. Opening in the 1950s and leading up to the present day, Common Read More

Someone is Watching

Actors: Stefanie Powers, Margot Kidder, Stewart Bock, Barry Flatman, Martin Neufeld

Synopsis: A Canadian-U.S. co-production filmed in 1998, Someone is Watching stars Stefanie Powers as Michelle Dupree, who, with her adopted son, Cory (Mickey Toft), is painfully attempting to pick up the pieces after the pair has been terrorized by an intruder in their home. Hoping to start life anew in a Read More

Touched by an Angel: Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Synopsis: In the opening episode of Touched by an Angel's fifth season, amiable Angel of Death Andrew (John Dye) promises a dying hospital patient to help restore the faith of someone else at death's door. The identity of that person can be found in a missing Bible, which Andrew searches for with the help Read More

The Clown at Midnight

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Margot Kidder, Sarah Lassez

Synopsis: In this atmospheric horror outing, an abandoned opera house has been donated to a high school, and theater instructor Ellen Gibby (Margot Kidder) organizes a team of student volunteers to restore the hall so it can be used for upcoming drama projects. However, the old theater holds disturbing Read More

Breathless: Living with Severe Asthma

Synopsis: Actress Margot Kidder hosts this program about what it's like to live with asthma and regularly face the possibility of dying suddenly when unable to breathe. The lives of several individuals who must face this challenge are profiled in Breathless: Living With Severe Asthma, including a speed Read More

Junior's Groove

Actors: Martin Villafana, Lynn Whitfield, Rainbow Sun Francks, Clark Johnson, Sarah Polley

Synopsis: In this Canadian film, overweight piano prodigy Junior Brown (Martin Villafana) searches for a piano because his goofy mother (Lynn Whitfield) severed the strings on the family piano. Since paranoid Miss Peebs (Margot Kidder), his piano teacher, won't let him finger her keyboard, he has to run Read More

Silent Cradle

Actors: Lorraine Bracco, Margot Kidder, Jason Gedrick

Synopsis: A woman must look past her personal misfortune to uncover a greater tragedy in this thriller. Helen (Lorraine Bracco) is a journalist who is expecting a baby. While working on a story about a police detective (Margot Kidder), Helen is involved in an accident; though she's rushed to the hospital Read More

Never Met Picasso

Synopsis: This gay-oriented drama centers on the life and exploits of Andrew, an aspiring painter. Still living at home with his mother Genna, an avant garde actress, constantly rejected by art schools, and without a lover, Andrew decides to enter a contest in hopes of winning a six month stay in Kenya. Read More

Young Ivanhoe

Actors: Stacy Keach, Margot Kidder, Nick Mancuso, Rachel Blanchard, Kris Ried

Phantom 2040: The Ghost Who Walks

Synopsis: Kit Walker is the 21st Century Phantom, one of a long line of superheroes who have lived in the jungles and dutifully defended mankind's precious natural resources. After the cataclysmic Resource War, Kit moves to the urban jungles of Metropia, looking to thwart the baddies. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Read More

Beanstalk

Actors: J.D. Daniels, Margot Kidder, Richard Moll

Synopsis: In the modern-day retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, a young man named Jack (J.D. Daniels) is looking for a way to help out his financially stressed single mother. Finding a handful of magic seeds, Jack plants them and soon discovers that a gigantic beanstalk has sprouted, leading into the sky Read More

Maverick

Actors: Noah Emmerich, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn

Synopsis: A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired by the popular television show. Mel Gibson assumes the role of Bret Maverick, the handsome rogue who hopes to cheat his way to success. In need of a large stake to enter a Read More

Henry & Verlin

Actors: Gary Farmer, Keegan Macintosh, Nancy Beatty, Robert Joy, Joan Orenstein, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: The deep bond formed between a troubled nephew and his simple uncle, whose character is reminiscent of Lenny from Of Mice and Men, is the focus of this Canadian melodrama set during the Depression in rural Ontario. Nine-year old Verlin will not talk, or cannot talk. His concerned and Read More

The Pornographer

Actors: Jason Tomlins, Nicholas Cascone, Melora Hardin, Alix Koromzay, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: This film contrasts the sleazy and unscrupulous behavior of Greyson (Jason Tomlins), a successful commercial artist who really steals the work of others and passes it off as his own, with that of his old college buddy Connie (Nicholas Cascone), who makes pornographic films for a living but treats Read More

One Woman's Courage

Synopsis: When a jury frees a killer, the woman who testified against him fears for her life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Windrunner

Actors: Russell Means, Jason Wiles, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: Margot Kidder and Russell Means star in this drama about a young man whose father is convicted of a serious crime and sent to prison. His family moves to be closer to where their father is incarcerated, but the teen quickly discovers that people look down on him because of his father's legal Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Threshold of Fear

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) cannot help but take interest in the plight of her reclusive neighbor Alice Morgan (Cynthia Nixon), who has suffered from extreme agoraphobia ever since she witnessed her mother's murder. More recently, Alice has been experiencing disturbing visions of her own demise at Read More

La Florida

Actors: Rémy Girard, Raymond Bouchard, Gildor Roy, Martin Drainville

Synopsis: Non-Canadians may not be aware that, come mid-winter, Florida is the promised land for many of the thoroughly chilled residents of that northern country. A tradition of winter residence in Florida has grown up, and whole communities make their livings from Canadian visitors. In this comedy, a Read More

To Catch a Killer

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Michael Riley, Margot Kidder, Meg Foster, Martin Julien

Synopsis: John Wayne Gacy was a respected member of his suburban Illinois community -- he was an active member of several service organizations, ran his own business, and entertained children as Pogo the Clown in his spare time. But Gacy had a terrible secret, and before he was finally brought in by the Read More

Tales From the Crypt: Curiosity Killed

Synopsis: "Curiosity Killed" concerns Dan (Kevin McCarthy) and Cynthia (Margot Kidder), a couple whose marriage is a shadow of its former self. Dan's pal, Billy (J.A. Preston), offers some friendly advice on how to get Cynthia out of his life once and for all; however, Cynthia has plans of her own for Dan. Read More

White Room

Actors: Kate Nelligan, Maurice Godin, Margot Kidder, Sheila McCarthy, Barbara Gordon

Synopsis: In this off-beat, suspenseful Canadian fable, an introverted, repressed young writer becomes obsessed with peeping into the apartment of a beautiful rock singer. She becomes his whole world until he finds himself witnessing her murder. Shocked back to reality, he attempts to stop peeping. He Read More

Mob Story

Actors: John Vernon, Kate Vernon, Margot Kidder, Robert Morelli, Brian Paul, Al Waxman

Synopsis: A gangster boss (John Vernon) is being pursued not only by the feds, but also by his girlfriend (Margot Kidder) and his old pal (Albert S. Waxman). With nowhere else to go, he heads north to Winnipeg to stay with relatives, and ends up teaching them a few things about the life of crime. ~ John Read More

Body of Evidence

Actors: Tony Lo Bianco, Barry Bostwick, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: Body of Evidence was first telecast the same evening as A Father's Revenge and The Murder of Mary Phagan: January 24, 1988, which may well stand as one of the bloodiest evenings in TV history. The setting for Body of Evidence is a small cloistered Massachusetts town. When a serial killer begins Read More

Vanishing Act

Actors: Margot Kidder, Mike Farrell

Synopsis: Someone in the upper echelons of network television must have been enamored of or obsessed with French playwright Robert Thomas' Trap for a Lonely Man, since the property was adapted to television no fewer than three times. The 1986 version, Vanishing Act, stars Mike Farrell as a honeymooning Read More

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Mariel Hemingway, Jon Cryer

Synopsis: Superman (Christopher Reeve) tries to save the world from nuclear destruction at the hands of Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) in this action film featuring the man of steel. In a speech to the United Nations, Superman declares he will rid the world of all nuclear weapons. Arch-villain Luthor emerges Read More

Keeping Track

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Margot Kidder, Alan Scarfe, Ken Pogue, John Boylan

Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller two strangers are suddenly thrown together in the strangest of circumstances when they witness a killing and a robbery and then find $5 million aboard a New York-bound train. Now they are forced to flee from the CIA, the Russians, and others while simultaneously trying Read More

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Synopsis: In this animated adaptation of L. Frank Baum's novel finds Dorothy, a little girl from Kansas, magically transported by a tornado to the land of Oz. Dorothy needs to find a way home, and with the help of a walking talking scarecrow, a cowardly lion, and a man made of tin, she's sure to have a Read More

Ozma of Oz

Actors: Margot Kidder

Synopsis: In this animated adventure, Dorothy makes friends with the princess of Oz and together they skip into an exciting new world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Actors: Margot Kidder

Synopsis: This sequel to The Wizard of Oz (also based on a book by L. Frank Baum) is an animated adventure recounting the adventures in Oz immediately after Dorothy is whisked back home to Kansas. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Emerald City of Oz

Actors: Margot Kidder

Synopsis: This is the fourth and final installment in an animated series that chronicles the further adventures of Dorothy in Oz. This time, she saves the Emerald City residents from the tyranny of the Gnome King. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: The Best of Dan Aykroyd is a 60-minute compilation of highlights from the first five years of TV's Saturday Night Live. As indicated by the title, the emphasis is on the multitalented Dan Aykroyd. The bits vary in quality but hit the target with far more frequency than the current dismal Read More

Little Treasure

Actors: Margot Kidder, Ted Danson, Burt Lancaster, Joseph Hacker, Malena Doria

Synopsis: In a weakly-limned story that starts off on one foot and then quickly jumps to another, Margot Kidder plays Margo, a stripper out looking for her long-lost father (Burt Lancaster) in a remote area of Mexico. After she arrives, Eugene (Ted Danson), an American settled in Mexico for the duration Read More

Hitchhiker, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Page Fletcher stars as the title character in this 1983-1988 made-for-cable suspense anthology. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords

Actors: Margot Kidder, Roddy McDowall, Michael Nouri, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: This fast-paced, animated action feature zoomed into theaters with characters developed from a popular TV cartoon series. The GoBots can morph into mechanical contrivances like land rovers or spaceships and are divided between good GoBots and evil ones (called Renegades). As these two factions Read More

Picking Up the Pieces

Actors: Margot Kidder, David Ackroyd, James Farentino, Ari Meyers, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: Picking Up the Pieces is a TV movie firmly locked in mid-1980s sensibilities: beware your husband, ladies, he's pond scum. Margot Kidder, a high school guidance counselor and mother of two, is the wife of wealthy surgeon and all-around heel David Ackroyd. After 17 years of emotional abuse, Kidder 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

The Glitter Dome

Actors: James Garner, Margot Kidder, Stuart Margolin

Synopsis: Produced for HBO, The Glitter Dome is based on the crime novel by Joseph Wambaugh. Manhattan detectives Al Mackey (James Garner) is forced to wade his way through the glamorous cesspool known as Hollywood. Mackey's quarry is the unknown person who brutally murdered studio mogul Malcolm Sinclair Read More

The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

Trenchcoat

Actors: Margot Kidder, Robert Hays, David Suchet, Gila Von Weitershausen, Daniel Faraldo

Synopsis: In this pseudo-farce, the heroine Mickey (Margot Kidder) takes two weeks off work to go to Malta and write a mystery novel and finds herself caught up in a series of real-life murders that she weaves into her progressing story. Caught between a parody, a children's film, and a who-dunnit, the Read More

Superman III

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross

Synopsis: In a major departure from the tone of the preceding two Superman adventure films, this mix of vile deeds and fantasy heroics drops the "S" out of cosmic and goes for comic instead. Right at the starting gate, Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) and a subsequent slapstick sequence upstage (Christopher Reeves Read More

Some Kind of Hero

Actors: Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Ronny Cox, Lynne Moody

Synopsis: Richard Pryor gives a compelling performance in Some Kind of Hero, playing a Vietnam veteran who tries to readjust to civilian life. Pryor plays Eddie Keller, who has just spent five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp. Most of the time there, Eddie was able to hold his own against Read More

Miss Right

Actors: Karen Black, Margot Kidder, Virna Lisi, Marie-France Pisier, William Tepper

Synopsis: William Tepper, whose only significant credit to date was the lead role in the Jack Nicholson-directed 1972 cult film (#Drive, He Said), wrote and stars in Miss Right. He plays Terry Bartell, a U.P.I. reported stationed in Rome. Bartell is an inveterate ladies man who suddenly decides he's through Read More

Heartaches

Actors: Margot Kidder, Annie Potts, Robert Carradine, Winston Rekert, George Touliatos

Synopsis: Margot Kidder and Annie Potts star in this distaff buddy picture concerning two friends undergoing a series of misadventures in their love lives. Potts plays Bonnie Howard, the wife of Stanley (Robert Carradine), an immature child/man who irresponsibly spends most of his time racing cars and Read More

Willie and Phil

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Margot Kidder, Ray Sharkey, Jan Miner, Jerry Hall, Natalie Wood

Synopsis: Director Paul Mazursky's follow-up to his 1978 hit An Unmarried Woman found this filmmaker creating a feature-length homage to the François Truffaut classic Jules and Jim. Willie and Phil begins with Jewish intellectual schoolteacher Willie (Michael Ontkean) meeting gregarious Italian-American Read More

Superman II

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Between giving up his super powers, confronting criminals from outer space, and having problems with his girlfriend, it's a bad time to be the Man of Steel in this sequel to the 1978 blockbuster. When terrorists threaten to destroy Paris with a thermonuclear device as they hold reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder Read More

The Amityville Horror

Actors: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Natasha Ryan, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: "For God's sake, GET OUT!" was the ad campaign for the 1979 shocker The Amityville Horror. The film was based on the allegedly true story of the luckless Lutz family, who move lock, stock, and barrel into a new home, only to find that it is possessed by the demonic spirits of its previous owners. Read More

Saturday Night Live: Margot Kidder

Actors: Margot Kidder, The Chieftains

Synopsis: This 1979 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Margot Kidder and features musical guest the Chieftains. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Superman: The Movie

Actors: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where Read More