Michael Lindsay-Hogg Filmography

Two of Us

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Everyone who grew up watching the original Saturday Night Live remembers the fateful night in 1976 when Lorne Michaels, with mock gravity, announced that NBC would pay the munificent sum of 3,000 dollars if the Beatles would agree to come on the show and perform three Beatles songs. But everyone Read More

Alone

Crew: Director

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Chris Cooper, Shelley Duvall, James Earl Jones, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: A lonely man receives some not entirely welcome attention from his children in this drama written by Horton Foote. John Webb (Hume Cronyn) is an aging farmer from Texas who recently lost his wife and is coming to terms with spending the rest of his days on his own. An oil company believes that Read More

Guy

Crew: Director

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Hope Davis, Kimber Riddle, Diane Salinger, Richard Portnow

Synopsis: Simply switch on the nightly news and you will see that the media has become increasingly intrusive into the lives of people involved in extraordinary circumstances. What is the true impact of the omnipresent camera upon those circumstances? How does it change the existence of those living beneath Read More

For Love Alone

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Collins, Sanna Vraa, Madeline Kahn, Trevor Eve, Brigitte Paquette

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is based on a novel by Ivana Trump and centers on a Czechoslovakian immigrant's rise to the highest levels of the American aristocracy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Frankie Starlight

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Parillaud, Matt Dillon, Gabriel Byrne, Corban Walker, Rudi Davies

Synopsis: A small man with a big story examines the facts of his life in this drama. As Frank Bois enjoys the success of his first novel, he finds himself looking back on his highly unusual life. Frank's mother Bernadette (Anne Parillaud) was a French woman who, after the death of her parents and several Read More

The Habitation of Dragons

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A dreary and depressing tale despite the excellent assemblage of talent, this is the story of a Depression-era family where sibling rivalry and tragedy seem to be the watch words of their home life. A period piece set in 1930s Texas. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Running Mates

Crew: Director

Actors: Ed Harris, Diane Keaton

Synopsis: The made-for-cable satirical comedy Running Mates is about a bachelor U.S. Senator named Hugh (Ed Harris), who falls in love with Aggie (Diane Keaton), a widowed children's author, while he is running for president. Though she hates politics, she finds something charming in the slick Hugh and Read More

The Object of Beauty

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi Davies, Joss Ackland

Synopsis: Michael Lindsay-Hogg wrote and directed this cool and sleek comedy about a seemingly perfect combination -- an American couple staying at a chic London hotel whose pride doesn't permit them to recognize that they are broke, and a hotel staff so brimming with proper British reserve that they can't Read More

Murder by Moonlight

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this futuristic sci-fi political drama, the minerals of the moon are being exploited by both Russian and American mining companies. When a terrorist threatens an American mining company, a KGB agent teams up with a NASA investigator to stop them. The two agents are attracted to each other and Read More

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: This 60-minute TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 doppelganger yarn stars Anthony Andrews as kindly London medico Henry Jekyll. Fascinated by the concept that within every man lurks two separate personalities--one good, one evil--Dr. Jekyll concocts a potion that releases his own Read More

The Little Match Girl

Crew: Director

Actors: Keshia Knight Pulliam

Synopsis: Keshia Knight-Pulliam stars as the title character, an orphaned waif of the 1920s who helps instill the Christmas spirit into a contentious New England family. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Paul Simon: Graceland - The African Concert

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In 1986, Paul Simon released his album {^Graceland}, a ground-breaking collaboration with some of South Africa's finest musicians that brought the sensuous and expressive sounds of "Township Jive" to an international mass audience for the first time. Simon then mounted an international concert Read More

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Even allowing for her in-and-out Austrian accent, Farrah Fawcett delivers one of her best ever TV-movie performances in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story. This fact-based film begins in 1960, when Beate's last name is still Kunzel. A sheltered young miss, Beate has no concept of what went on Read More

Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Annie Oakley

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode of Shelley Duvall's American Tall Tales tells the rip-roaring story of Annie Oakley, one of the Old West's greatest sharpshooters and popular star of Buffalo Bill's traveling Wild West Show. The program includes some legendary episodes -- part fact, part fiction -- and shows some Read More

As Is

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Manhattan-based writer David Carradine falls victim to AIDS in As Is. Virtually abandoned by friends and family, Carradine is looked after by his gay lover, photographer Jonathan Hadary. Based on a play by William M. Hoffman, As Is wisely avoids editorial comment on the principals' lifestyle, nor Read More

Annie Oakley

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biography appeared as part of the Shelley Duvall series, Tall Tales and Legends, and stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Annie Oakley and Brian Dennehy as Buffalo Bill Cody, who Ms. Oakley accompanied on a hugely successful Wild West show. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Master Harold and the Boys

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Adapted from the semiautobiographical play by South African author Athol Fugard, Master Harold...and the Boys is set in Port Elizabeth in 1950. "Master Harold" is what the black employees are ordered to call young Hally (Matthew Broderick), the son of a well-to-do white couple who own a Read More

Loving

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Following the lead of the CBS soap opera Capitol, NBC's daytime drama Loving was introduced by a two-hour, prime-time TV movie. Created by Agnes Nixon, Loving is largely set on the campus of the fictional Alden University. The serial's "backstory" is cleverly related by having TV anchorwoman Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Thumbelina

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This lively, funny Faerie Tale Theatre production of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is about a thumb-sized girl (Carrie Fisher) who has to find her way back home after being kidnapped by a toad and a mole. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Doctor Fischer of Geneva

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Bates, James Mason, Greta Scacchi, Hugh Burden, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Dr. Fischer (James Mason) is a cynical tycoon whose favorite past time is exposing human greed. Determined to prove that even the most righteous person can be bought, Fischer (Bates) plans a party with a strange and diabolical twist. The party favors contain one of two things--one million dollars Read More

Neil Young in Berlin

Crew: Director

Actors: Neil Young

Synopsis: This 1982 concert video captures the last show of Young's European tour. The Berlin show features the Trans Band, comprising Ralph Molina, Ben Keith, Joe Lala, Bruce Palmer, and Nils Lofgren, and consists of ten songs, including the classics "Old Man" and "The Needle and the Damage Done." Other Read More

Brideshead Revisited

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally aired on the U.K.'s ITV network. The miniseries, like the book, lays bare the eccentricities of the young British aristocracy, concentrating upon several Oxford students. The Read More

Nasty Habits

Crew: Director

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Melina Mercouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: An all-star female cast (Glenda Jackson, Melina Mecouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson, Anne Meara, and Dame Edith Evans) enliven this satirical treatment of the Nixon Watergate scandal, Nasty Habits -- based on Muriel Sparks's novella The Abbess of Crewe. When a dying abbess (Dame Read More

Fall of Eagles: The Secret War

Crew: Director

Let It Be

Crew: Director

Actors: The Beatles, Yoko Ono, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Billy Preston, George Martin, Linda McCartney, Mal Evans, Heather McCartney

Synopsis: The dissolution of the Fab Four is captured on camera in Michael Lindsay-Hogg's documentary, a filmed record of the sessions for what would become the Beatles' final release, Let It Be. ({^Abbey Road}, cut shortly after these sessions, was in fact the group's final recording, but it was released a Read More

The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus

Crew: Director

Actors: The Rolling Stones

Synopsis: Fans of late '60s rock and roll will find this documentary to be a rare and precious jewel, as it contains shining performances from such giants as The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and The Who. Originally planned as a television special in 1968, it was shelved shortly Read More