Nick Castle, Jr. Filmography

Born:: September 21, 1947 in Los Angeles, CA
Occupation:: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: As a child, Nick Castle Jr. showed up in extra and bit roles in the films choreographed by his famous dancer father. The younger Castle attended the USC film school, where he befriended fellow aspiring director John Carpenter. Castle's first big-screen credit was as an actor in Carpenter's...Read More

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August Rush

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Terrence Howard, Robin Williams

Synopsis: Estranged from his parents by circumstance and nudged toward a foster family, a young boy seeks out his long-lost folks and discovers prodigious musical talent in this family-oriented drama from Disco Pigs director Kirsten Sheridan. In the aftermath of a passionate night together above New York's Read More

11/21/07
Connors' War

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony "Treach" Criss, Nia Peeples

Synopsis: A blind CIA agent on the verge of retirement is given back his eyesight for forty-eight hours in order to complete one final mission, only to discover that the danger is greater than he ever could have anticipated, in this slam-bang action extravaganza starring Naughty by Nature hip-hopper Anthony Read More

2006
The Seat Filler

Crew: Director

Actors: Kelly Rowland, Duane Martin

Synopsis: The romantic comedy The Seat Filler stars Duane Martin as a law student working very hard to keep his head above water financially. He takes a job as a seat filler at a big awards function where he meets a famous singer (Kelly Rowland). She believes he works in show business and he does nothing to Read More

7/20/05
John Carpenter: Fear is Just the Beginning... The Man and His Movies

Actors: John Carpenter

Synopsis: Filmmaker John Carpenter helped redefine the American horror film in 1978 with Halloween, a low-budget thriller which became a major box office success. Since then, Carpenter has devoted his career to bringing a fresh perspective to genre filmmaking, striving to maintain the freedom of an Read More

2002
'Twas the Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Bryan Cranston, Josh Zuckerman

Synopsis: In this holiday-themed comedy, Danny (Josh Zuckerman) is a teenage boy who doesn't always have the good sense to ignore the bad advice of his Uncle Nick (Bryan Cranston), a good-natured small-time con man. The night before Christmas, Danny and Uncle Nick make an amazing discovery -- Santa Claus Read More

2001
Delivering Milo

Crew: Director

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Albert Finney, Anton Yelchin, Campbell Scott, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: An unborn child has to be convinced that moving into the big, bad world is a good idea in this comic fantasy. Elizabeth (Bridget Fonda) and her husband Kevin (Campbell Scott) are a couple expecting a baby, who is due at any time, and when labor sets in, they rush to the hospital in anticipation of Read More

2001
Mr. Wrong

Crew: Director

Actors: Ellen DeGeneres, Bill Pullman, Joan Cusack, Dean Stockwell, Joan Plowright

Synopsis: Popular comic and television personality Ellen DeGeneres had her first starring role in a feature film in this black comedy. Martha Alston (DeGeneres) is a thirtysomething single working as a producer for a talk show. Ever since Martha's younger sister got married, her parents have been after her Read More

1996
Major Payne

Crew: Director

Actors: Damon Wayans, Karyn Parsons, William Hickey, Michael Ironside, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Hawk-like Marine Corps officer Benson Payne (Damon Wayans) attempts to whip into shape the usual assortment of misfit JROTC kids in this minor remake of The Private War of Major Benson. Of course, both the major and his pint-sized recruits have something to teach one another. Payne teaches them Read More

1995
The Cowboy Way

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono

Synopsis: In this action comedy, director Gregg Champion relies on the premise that, indeed, "country boys can survive," as Sonny (Kiefer Sutherland) and Pepper (Woody Harrelson, always game) head off to the Big Apple in order to rescue a mutual friend's daughter from the clutches of an evil sweatshop Read More

1994
Dennis the Menace

Crew: Director

Actors: Walter Matthau, Mason Gamble, Joan Plowright, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson

Synopsis: John Hughes continues the trend he began with the Home Alone series in Dennis the Menace, the Hughes-scripted film version of Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip, cartoon show, and television comedy. The film opens as Dennis (Mason Gamble) is seen careening down a sidewalk in a beautiful and Read More

1993
Hook

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Phil Collins

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of Read More

12/11/91
Tap

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gregory Hines, Suzzanne Douglas, Sammy Davis, Jr., Savion Glover, Joe Morton

Synopsis: Gregory Hines plays the ex-convict son of a famed tap-dancer. Taking over his late father's Harlem dance studio, Hines can't shake memories of his childhood, when he was being touted as a dancing prodigy. Challenged to fulfill his destiny by his dad's old cronies--among them such terpsichorean Read More

2/10/89
The Boy Who Could Fly

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lucy Deakins, Jay Underwood, Bonnie Bedelia, Fred Savage, Colleen Dewhurst

Synopsis: Jay Underwood plays an autistic boy who provides a source of fascination to a new family in town. Never uttering a sound, Underwood spends hours in his backyard, attempting to fly like the birds. Lucy Deakins, the daughter of the new family, befriends Underwood; she is encouraged by teacher Colleen Dewhurst Read More

8/15/86
The Last Starfighter

Crew: Director

Actors: Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Stewart, Barbara Bosson

Synopsis: Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter. His expertise at this recreational endeavor attracts the attention of affable stranger Robert Preston. Before he knows what's happening, Guest is whisked by Preston into the Read More

1984
T.A.G.: The Assassination Game

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Carradine, Linda Hamilton, Bruce Abbott, Kristine de Bell, Frazer Smith

Synopsis: Students at a college with obviously low graduation requirements spend their time and energy playing a game that involves mock assassinations with rubber-tipped darts fired from plastic guns. If you are shot, you are assassinated and out of the game and whoever remains alone at the end wins. When Read More

1982
Escape from New York

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the president (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is Read More

1981
Pray TV

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this socially conscious, satirical made-for-television drama, a con-artist becomes one of the nation's top televangelists. The film is also known as K-GOD. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Skatetown, USA

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Ron Palillo, Ruth Buzzi, Dave Mason

Synopsis: The short-lived roller-disco craze of the late 1970s served as inspiration for this dated comedy, which follows the patrons of a popular roller-disco palace as they prepare for a major race. Naturally, the climactic showdown features a wholesome, upright hero (Greg Bradford) facing the fearsome Read More

1979
Halloween

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Loomis, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers

Synopsis: It was "The Night HE Came Home," warned the posters for John Carpenter's career-making horror smash. In Haddonfield, Ilinois, on Halloween night 1963, 6-year-old Michael Myers inexplicably slaughters his teenage sister. His psychiatrist Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) can't penetrate Michael's Read More

1978