Mel HarrisFilmography

Saints and Sinners [TV Series]

Synopsis: Intended as a five-times-weekly presentation of MyNetwork's "Secret Obsessions" package, the English-language telenova Saints and Sinners was based on the TV Azteca prime-time soaper La Calle de las Novias ("Bride's Avenue"). An updated rehash of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", the series Read More

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Actors: Peter Facinelli, Ken Howard, Ann Cusack, Mel Harris

Synopsis: A drug-addicted former policeman attempts to remain high long enough to solve the case of a missing child and salvage what's left of his corroded character in writer/director Robert Ethan Gunnerson's gritty detective film. Paris Pritchert (Peter Facinelli) used to be a good cop; now those days are Read More

House: Safe

Synopsis: Having endured a lifetime of strange allergic reactions, 16-year-old Melinda (Michelle Trachtenberg) is placed in a scrupulously sterile environment after undergoing a heart transplant. Why, then, has Melinda gone into an apparently allergic shock at home and suffered heart failure at the clinic? Read More

Purple Heart

Actors: William Sadler, Demetrius Navarro, Mel Harris, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: William Sadler and Ed Lauter star in this war drama about a Marine sniper who is captured by the Iraqi government while on a covert mission to assassinate Saddam Hussein, and the threat he faces from his own superiors after he returns to the United States and escapes the psychiatric hospital where Read More

Out of the Woods

Actors: Ed Asner, Jason London, Missy Crider, Mel Harris

Synopsis: Young, self-absorbed attorney Matt Fleming (Jason London) is sent out of the city and into the woods by his mother, who is worried over the welfare of Matt's crusty, eccentric nature-loving grandfather Jack (Ed Asner). Not surprisingly, Matt is in for quite a culture shock. Not only does Jack do Read More

Hangman's Curse

Actors: David Keith, Mel Harris, Leighton Meester, Douglas Smith

Synopsis: A family of paranormalists investigates the strange goings-on at a high school still reeling over a student's very public suicide in this teen thriller. Hangman's Curse concerns the further exploits of the Veritas Group, a loose collective of people committed to researching supernatural mysteries. Read More

K-9: P.I.

Actors: Jim Belushi

Synopsis: Dooley and Jerry Lee are at it again. The day after Dooley (James Belushi) retires as a detective from the police force, he finds himself -- and his faithful canine companion Jerry Lee -- chasing high-tech burglars who have stolen a valuable prototype computer chip. Trouble is, Jerry Lee has eaten Read More

Another Pretty Face

Synopsis: The media's tendency to favor youth and cosmetic perfection over experience and intelligence is the gist of this mildly trenchant TV movie. Mel Harris stars as Diana, a top TV news anchor who is summarily dumped from her lofty perch in favor of a younger and prettier journalist named Amber (Julianne Morris Read More

The Retrievers

Actors: Robert Hays, Mel Harris, Robert Wagner, Betty White, Alan Rachins

Synopsis: The Retrievers stars Bettie White, Robert Hays, and Robert Wagner in the kid-friendly tale of a family who discovers a dog and her newborn litter of puppies. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Lord Moves in Mysterious Ways

Synopsis: Joel Grey makes his first appearance as Ronald, an oddball angel from the Records and Permanent Files division. Showing up while the other angels are preparing a surprise party for Tess (Della Reese), Ronald comments that he'd love to be a Heavenly caseworker, but he's too insecure--and besides Read More

Sonic Impact

Actors: James Russo, Ice-T, Mel Harris

Synopsis: Terror flies at 30,000 feet in this tense action thriller. Jeremy Barrett (Michael Harris) is a brilliant but unbalanced criminal genius who, while being transported to a penal facility aboard a commercial airliner, breaks free and takes control of the jet, holding the passengers hostage, blowing Read More

Out of Time

Actors: James McDaniel, Mel Harris, August Schellenberg, Ken Pogue

Synopsis: Ernest Thompson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play and Oscar-winning film On Golden Pond, was both director and co-writer of the cable-TV film Out of Time. The story begins in Oregon in 1980, when Jack Epson -- a young business owner, family man, and dedicated environmentalist -- discovers Read More

Family Under Siege

Synopsis: Walter Baltzer's thriller Family Under Siege stars Mel Harris as Fay Baxter, a mother who must defend her family after they are taken hostage by three bad guys. Daniel Baldwin and Melinda Clarke play two of the criminals who kidnap Fay's husband while keeping her and her kids tied up. ~ Perry Read More

Firetrap

Actors: Dean Cain, Lori Petty, Richard Tyson

Synopsis: A criminal is forced to become a hero in this action drama. Max Hopper (Dean Cain) is a successful burglar who has decided it's time to leave his life of crime behind him. But Hopper is lured into pulling one last heist when he learns about a valuable new computer chip being created by a Read More

Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest

Synopsis: Three years after the cancellation of her popular series Murder She Wrote, Angela Lansbury returns for the first of several TV-movie followups to that selfsame series. Once again, Lansbury is cast as Jessica Fletcher, best-selling mystery writer and amateur sleuth. As indicated by the film's Read More

What Kind of Mother Are You?

Synopsis: Hoping to put her life back together after an abusive first marriage, mild-mannered Laura Jameson (Mel Harris) weds again, thereby incurring the wrath and resentment of her rebellious teenage daughter Kelly (Nicholle Tom). Still holding Laura responsible for the suicide of her father, Kelly goes Read More

A Case for Life

Synopsis: "How Far Would You Go to Save Your Sister's Life?" This was the question posed by the original ad copy for the made-for-TV drama A Case for Life--and the answer would seem to be "to the highest courts of the land", or at least that's how far Los Angeles lawyer Liz Hammett (Mel Harris) is prepared Read More

Secretary

Actors: Mel Harris, Sheila Kelley, Barry Bostwick, James Russo, Ray Baker

Synopsis: Anxious for revenge against the corporation that has refused to promote her, an ambitious secretary beguiles a naive stockbroker into helping her enact a deadly plan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sharon's Secret

Actors: Candace Cameron, Mel Harris, Alex McArthur, Paul Regina, Gregg Henry

Synopsis: In this thriller, only a determined psychiatrist can save a traumatized, catatonic girl from going to prison for the murder of her parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome to Paradise

Actors: Shelley Long, Mel Harris, DeLane Matthews, Ian Ziering

Suture

Actors: Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono, Dina Merrill, Michael Harris

Synopsis: Suture, Scott McGehee and David Siegel's self-conscious exploration of identity and individuality, evokes a flashy remake of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Jail Bait. Dennis Haysbert and Michael Harris play half-brothers Clay and Vincent Towers. Clay travels to Phoenix to meet with Vincent, whom he hasn't Read More

The Pagemaster

Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Ed Begley, Jr., Mel Harris, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: A young boy overcomes his obsessive fears by discovering a love for books in this animated fantasy adventure. In a live action wraparound, Macaulay Culkin stars as Richard Tyler, an easily bullied, nervous wreck of a kid who's an expert on safety statistics. His mother and father (Mel Harris and Ed Begley, Jr. Read More

Broken Lullaby

Actors: Mel Harris, Rob Stewart, Oliver Tobias

Synopsis: Mel Harris traces her aunt's mysterious roots in this made-for-television movie. Based on the book of the same name by Laurel Pace, Harris stars as Jordan Kirkland, a genealogist who begins tracing her wealthy Aunt Kitty's (Vivian Reis) roots. Her research -- which centers around a Fabergé egg Read More

Ultimate Betrayal

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Mel Harris, Ally Sheedy, Eileen Heckart, Kathryn Dowling

Synopsis: A family is torn apart when two adult sisters decide to take their father to court for sexually abusing them as children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Spider and the Fly

Actors: Mel Harris, Ted Shackelford, Kim Coates, Colm Feore, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: In this suspenseful made-for-cable whodunit, two rival mystery writers challenge each other to devise the perfect murder, and they quickly fall in love. The trouble is that one of them really is a murderer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story

Actors: Mel Harris, John Schneider, Dana Ashbrook, Cotter Smith

Synopsis: When Hurricane Bob roars over a sailboat and the boat capsizes, a pregnant women and a few hostile survivors are set adrift, and they must somehow work together until they are rescued. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

With Hostile Intent

Actors: Mel Harris, Melissa Gilbert, Peter Onorati, Cotter Smith, Holland Taylor

Synopsis: Melissa Gilbert-Boxleitner and Mel Harris star as two female police officers fighting the police force in this made-for-TV movie about sexual harassment in the workplace. After Miranda Berkley (Harris) breaks up with her boyfriend/superior officer, she and her partner find themselves on-the-job Read More

Wind Dancer

Actors: Mel Harris, Matt McCoy, Raeanin Simpson, Brian Keith

Synopsis: Paralyzed after a riding accident, young Paige finds renewed hope after she attends a clinic where animals are used to help with the emotional recovery of patients such as herself. This inspirational and heartwarming drama centers on the initially embittered, depressed Paige's relationship with Read More

Raising Cain

Actors: John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer, Frances Sternhagen, Gregg Henry

Synopsis: A complicated thriller, directed with great visual style by Brian De Palma, Raising Cain is the story of twin brothers, Carter and Josh (John Lithgow), one good and one evil, who will stop at nothing to find children to further their father's psychological experiments. John Lithgow is outstanding Read More

The Burden of Proof

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was originally offered in two parts under the title Scott Turow's Burden of Proof. Adapted by John Gay from Turow's bestselling novel, the film stars Hector Elizondo as defense attorney Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the same character played by Raul Julia in the 1990 cinemazation Read More

Child of Rage

Actors: Mel Harris, Dwight Schultz, Mariette Hartley, Ashley Peldon, Rosanna de Soto

Synopsis: A terrible secret is uncovered in a child's past in this made-for-cable drama. Based on a true story, Ashley Peldon stars as 7-year-old Catherine, the newly adopted child of the Tylers. When Catherine turns increasingly violent towards her new parents and her natural brother, the Tylers try Read More

Desperate Motive

Actors: Mel Harris, David Keith, William Katt, Mary Crosby, Brian Bonsall

Synopsis: In this psycho thriller, Richard Sullivan is a mild-mannered, trusting ad-man who is tickled when his long lost cousin Harry suddenly shows up at his door. Harry is accompanied by Connie, his fiancee and the innocent Richard welcomes them into his happy home. Unfortunately, whereas Richard, his Read More

The Secretary

Synopsis: This upbeat black-and-white independent feature won the "Best First Feature" prize for its director at the 1991 San Remo (Italy) International Film Festival. In the story, Shelly is an unappreciated but hard-working legal secretary for a tyrannical, workaholic perfectionist. He works an Read More

Grass Roots

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Mel Harris, Reginald VelJohnson, John Glover, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: A made for TV, two-part series, this is the story of a Southern attorney who suddenly finds himself embroiled in politics, a particularly controversial murder trial and a public battle with a vindictive journalist -- all at the same time. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

thirtysomething: Season 04

Actors: Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield, Patricia Wettig, Peter Horton, Polly Draper, Melanie Mayron

K-9

Actors: James Belushi, Mel Harris, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Neill, Jerry Lee

Synopsis: James Belushi stars in this cop actioner about a loner narcotics officer who has to break in a new partner. The twist here is that the new partner is barely housebroken, but he's still sharp and keeps his nose close to the ground. Dooley (Belushi), who works on the San Diego narc squad, is an Read More

Cameron's Closet

Actors: Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis, Chuck McCann, Leigh McCloskey

Synopsis: Director Armand Mastroianni's last horror feature before building a more solid reputation as a director of TV movies and series, Cameron's Closet tells the tale of a bright young boy with innate telekinetic powers whose gifts were exploited by his father (Tab Hunter) in a series of controlled Read More

My Brother's Wife

Actors: Mel Harris, John Ritter

Synopsis: My Brother's Wife was adapted from A. R. Gurney's off-Broadway play The Middle Ages, but if you dig back a little you'll find a kernel of the plotline in Phillip Barry's 1928 play Holiday. John Ritter plays the flamboyantly nonconformist member of a staid Boston family. When he sees his future Read More

Cross of Fire

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Cross of Fire is set in the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its political power in Indiana. Part One, originally telecast November 5, 1989, details the resurgence of the Klan (which had been created during the Reconstruction era) under the leadership of Read More

thirtysomething: Season 03

Actors: Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield, Patricia Wettig, Peter Horton, Polly Draper, Melanie Mayron

thirtysomething: Season 02

Actors: Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield, Patricia Wettig, Peter Horton, Polly Draper, Melanie Mayron

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume, Mel Harris, William Russ

Synopsis: Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is a modern-day bounty hunter who goes after notorious terrorist Malak Al Rahim (Gene Simmons) in this action feature. Nick is called on after Malak disrupts Los Angeles with a series of fatal bombings. William Russ plays Nick's friend and retired LAPD lieutenant Danny Read More

thirtysomething [TV Series]

Actors: Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield, Patricia Wettig, Peter Horton, Polly Draper, Melanie Mayron

thirtysomething: Season 01

Actors: Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield, Patricia Wettig, Peter Horton, Polly Draper, Melanie Mayron

China Hand

Actors: David Soul

Synopsis: First telecast May 8, 1987, Harry's Hong Kong was the pilot film for an unsold TV series. The title character, played by David Soul, was a soldier of fortune at-large in the titular port city. The owner of an elaborate offshore casino, Harry Petros solves mysteries and straightens out other Read More

The Retrievers

Actors: Max Thayer, Shawn Hoskins, Lenard Miller, Bud Cramer

Synopsis: This martial arts action film is about Tom, a man conned into joining the CIA and then forced into fighting against it when his ethics lead him to protect those connected with an exposé of the agency. Danny has written the exposé and when he is taken into custody by the CIA, Tom sees his partner Read More

M*A*S*H: Cementing Relationships

Synopsis: Alda, Alan~Hawkeye Farrell, Mike~B.J. Hunnicut Morgan, Harry~Col. Potter Swit, Loretta~Margaret Houlihan Stiers, David Ogden~Maj. Charles Winchester II Farr, Jamie~Klinger Christopher, William~Father Mulcahy Brooks, Joel~Ignazio de Simone Toy, Alan~Cochran Harris, Mel~Driver ~ Hal Erickson, All Read More