Peter HortonFilmography

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Actors: Greg "Gadget" Abbott, Dave Barthmuss, Ed Begley, Jr., Jim Boyd and His Men of the West, Alec N. Brooks

Synopsis: Filmmaker Chris Payne explores the many factors that played into the ultimate failure of the electric car to catch on with consumers, even as gas prices began to skyrocket, in a thoughtful meditation on the increasingly important role that renewable energy plays in modern society. Introduced as a Read More

Grey's Anatomy: It's the End of the World

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Burke (Isaiah Washington) orders a "Code Black" when a WW2 re-enactor is brought in with a homemade bomb embedded in his chest. There's tension aplenty as the man is brought into surgery while young paramedic Hanna Davies (guest star Cristina Ricci) Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens, Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh

Synopsis: Having proven that it could stand on its own two feet without Desperate Housewives as its lead-in, Grey's Anatomy remained in its new Thursday-night slot as the seriocomic medical series entered its third season. In addition to established stars Ellen Pompeo (intern Meredith Grey) Patrick Dempsey Read More

Grey's Anatomy: As We Know It

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the Code Black emergency remains in effect as Blake (Isaiah Washington) tries to remove a live bomb imbedded in the chest of a WW2 re-enactor--with a very nervous Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) holding the explosive steady lest it blow the hospital to smithereens. Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens, Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh

Synopsis: Following its nine-episode inaugural season, the seriocomic medical series Grey's Anatomy returns with a full complement of episodes for its second year on the air--indeed, five of the unaired installments from Season One are added to the 22-episode manifest of Season Two, with even more to follow Read More

Grey's Anatomy [TV Series]

Crew: Co-Executive Producer, Director

Synopsis: The professional roles and real lives of a diverse group of surgeons collide unexpectedly in this Golden Globe-winning ABC television drama. As an intern at prestigious Seattle Grace Hospital, Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) tries hard to live up to the reputation of her legendary surgeon mother Read More

Grey's Anatomy: A Hard Day's Night

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It's a grueling and eventful first 48 hours for the new crop of surgical interns at Seattle Grace Hospital in the debut episode of Grey's Anatomy. Among the newcomers are Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), still struggling to emerge from the shadow of her celebrated surgeon mother Ellis Grey (Kate Read More

Grey's Anatomy: The First Cut is the Deepest

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After considering several candidates, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) decides who will be her roommates during her first-year internship. Back on the job, she butts heads with a pediatric intern to save the life of a newborn child, and also claims temporary possession of a gruesome "souvenir" left behind Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Everyone seems to be having a Merry Christmas except the people at Seattle Grace. Izzie (Katherine Heigl) can't get into the holiday spirit because she's still p.o.'ed at Alex (Justin Chambers), who for his part is convinced that he'll fail again when he takes his board exams for the second time. Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Enough is Enough

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The OR staff has its hands full with the victims of a spectacular car crash caused by flagrantly careless driver Bob Seibert. In the course of events, it is revealed that Seibert is a drug abuser, wife beater and all-around louse--and he is also in desperate need of a liver transplant. Ironically Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season Two of Grey's Anatomy picks up exactly where Season One left off, with the unexpected arrival at Seattle Grace Hospital of brilliant surgeon Addison Shepherd (Kate Walsh)--much to the dismay of Addison's estranged husband Dr. Derek Shepherd (Patrick Dempsey), to say nothing of Derek's Read More

The Dust Factory

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hayden Panettiere, Ryan Kelley, Michael Angarano, Kim Myers

Synopsis: A troubled youth learns a valuable lesson about trust and knowledge in this fantasy drama. Ryan (Ryan Kelley) is a teenager who lacks the ability to speak. One day, Ryan falls off a bridge and he finds himself transported to a strange fantasy world where he encounters his Grandpa Randolph (Armin Mueller-Stahl Read More

While I Was Gone

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Peter Horton, Bill Smitrovich, Deborah Odell, Rebecca Benson

Synopsis: A suspense novel by Sue Miller was the source for the made-for-TV While I Was Gone, which made its CBS network debut on October 10, 2004. Boston veterinarian Jo Beckett (Kirstie Alley) feels trapped in her marriage to kindly but unexciting minister Daniel Beckett (Bill Smitrovich). Then, one day Read More

The Shield: Co-Pilot

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This episode takes us back 14 months, to the origin of the Strike Team. A less hardened Mackey (Michael Chiklis) convinces Gilroy (John Diehl) to let him handpick and run the team, which will be based in a new satellite precinct, the Barn. Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives them their first case, a Read More

The Shield: Carte Blanche

Crew: Director

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives Mackey (Michael Chiklis) a medal after the Fleetwood Walker bust. It turns out it was Lanie's (Lucinda Jenney) idea. The cops at "The Barn" also add a new twist to their annual "Toys for Guns" drive -- a raffle, which also gets them the address of everyone who turns Read More

Thoughtcrimes

Synopsis: On the night of her prom in 1994, teenager Freya McAllister (Navi Rawat) suddenly begins hearing strange voices. As a result, Freya is diagnosed as schizophrenic and squirreled away in a mental hospital, where she remains for the next eight years. Along comes psychologist Michal Welles (Peter Read More

The Geena Davis Show [TV Series]

Actors: Geena Davis, Peter Horton, Mimi Rogers, Kim Coles, Harland Williams

T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous

Actors: Peter Horton, Liz Stauber, Kari Coleman, Laurie Murdoch, Tuck Milligan

Synopsis: Brett Leonard directed this 3-D Imax short feature (running 45 minutes) about a famous paleontologist's teen daughter, who's able to enter into the world of the dinosaurs. In Alberta, Canada, Dr. Donald Hayden (Peter Horton) and his assistant Elizabeth (Kari Coleman) find a Tyrannosaurus egg. Read More

Brimstone [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Actors: Peter Horton, John Glover, Currie Graham, Peter Woodward

Synopsis: In this supernatural thriller TV series, set in NYC, Detective Ezekiel Stone (Peter Horton) murdered his wife's rapist, was killed on duty, and was then sent to Hell by the Devil (John Glover). After 113 evil escapees flee the netherworld and return to Earth, Zeke gets a second chance. If he can Read More

From the Earth to the Moon, Part 3: We Have Cleared the Tower

Synopsis: President John F. Kennedy issued the challenge to America in a speech to Congress in 1961: Land a man on the moon within the decade. This HBO mini-series, produced by Tom Hanks, chronicles the story of NASA's efforts to carry out the vision. Episode three looks at the step forward made by Apollo Read More

Gun: Columbus Day

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, James Gandolfini, Peter Horton

Synopsis: This is the first episode in the anthology drama series that deals with the unexpected effects a gun can have on people's lives. Walter (James Gandolfini) buys a gun to protect his family, unaware that his wife (Rosanna Arquette) is having an affair -- or that the former owner of the gun wants it Read More

The End of Violence

Actors: Samuel Fuller, Frederic Forrest, Udo Kier, Traci Lind, Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Wim Wenders directed this allegorical drama about the emotional impact of violence in our culture, set against the backdrop of California's entertainment business. Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is a Hollywood producer who has earned a great deal of money and power in the film industry through his Read More

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest

Actors: Tim Dutton, Richard Jenkins, Nathaniel Parker, Peter Horton, Pamela Gien

Synopsis: Based on Jon Krakhauer's harrowing account of folly and tragedy on the slopes of the world's highest mountain, this made-for-TV movie re-enacts that fateful excursion. Christopher McDonald and Peter Horton star. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder Live!

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Marg Helgenberger, David Morse, Christine Estabrook, Lauren Tom, Eloy Casados

Synopsis: In the middle of a live talk-show telecast hosted by the supremely arrogant Pia Postman (Marg Helgenberger), audience member Frank McGrath (David Morse) suddenly pulls out a gun and seizes control of the studio. Slapping a piece of tape over Pia's mouth (a moment that is invariably applauded by Read More

Crazy Horse

Actors: Michael Greyeyes, Wes Studi, Irene Bedard, August Schellenberg, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: The true-story of Native American legend Crazy Horse is told in this made-for-cable movie. Michael Greyeyes stars as the Oglala Sioux warrior who battled for freedom against encroaching westward expansion and fought General Custer and his forces at Little Big Horn. Filmed on location in South Read More

2 Days in the Valley

Actors: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Charlize Theron

Synopsis: A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to Read More

Death Benefit

Synopsis: In this Kentucky-set drama, a tax attorney lays his career and life on the line while endeavoring to prove that a young girl was murdered. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cure

Crew: Director

Actors: Joseph Mazzello, Brad Renfro, Annabella Sciorra, Diana Scarwid, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Erik (Brad Renfro) is a 13-year-old boy whose single mother, Gail (Diana Scarwid), has just moved to a new home in Minnesota. Erik feels like a fish out of water with his Southern accent, and he has trouble making friends until he meets Dexter (Joseph Mazzello), a kid a year or two younger who Read More

The Baby-Sitters Club

Actors: Bre Blair, Tricia Joe, Stacey Linn Ramsower, Schuyler Fisk, Rachael Leigh Cook, Larisa Oleynik

Synopsis: Based on the characters from the series of best-selling books by Ann M. Martin, The Baby Sitters Club concerns a group of seven girls, each edging into their teenage years, who are close friends and have formed a co-operative baby-sitting service. Their business has become so successful that the Read More

Children of the Dark

Actors: Peter Horton, Tracy Pollan, Bill Smitrovich, Roy Dotrice, Natalia Nogulich

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie examines a rare genetic disorder that makes certain people so sensitive to light that they can only survive at night. The story centers on a family that has two so-afflicted children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Singles

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Sheila Kelley, Jim True

Synopsis: Set amidst the burgeoning Seattle alternative music scene of the early '90s, Singles follows a group of twentysomethings as they try to find love and try to come to terms with their passage into adulthood. Arranged as an episodic comedy, the film follows a group of friends who live in the same Read More

Side Out

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Peter Horton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Harley Jane Kozak, Chris Rydell, Terry Kiser

Synopsis: When Milwaukee college student Monroe Clark (C. Thomas Howell) takes a summer job evicting his wealthy uncle's Los Angeles tenants, he ends up befriending one of the deadbeats, ex-volleyball pro Zack Barnes (Peter Horton), and the two join up together to compete in an important volleyball match. Read More

thirtysomething: Season 04

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

Extreme Close-Up

Crew: Director

Actors: Blair Brown, Craig T. Nelson, Morgan Weisser, Samantha Mathis, Kimber Shoop

Synopsis: Filmed in semidocumentary fashion, Extreme Close-up features Morgan Weisser as a 16-year-old boy grieving the death of his mother (Blair Brown). Trying to assuage his grief, Weisser runs family videotapes of his mother. It becomes increasingly clear that the woman was falling apart emotionally in 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

Amazon Women on the Moon

Crew: Director

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Ralph Bellamy, Carrie Fisher, Griffin Dunne, Steve Guttenberg

Synopsis: The 1987 portmanteau comedy feature Amazon Women on the Moon lampoons several film genres in general and the 1954 sci-fi cheapie Cat Women of the Moon in particular. Other sketches in Amazon Women include an opening bit with Arsenio Hall; a vignette titled "Son of the Invisible Man" wherein a 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

Where the River Runs Black

Actors: Charles Durning, Alessandro Rabelo, Ajay Naidu, Peter Horton, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: This drama concerns the clash of two worlds in the person of a young boy. The small boy (Alessandro Rabelo) is the offspring of a missionary who died before the he was born, and a Native American who is later killed by white prospectors. Father O'Reilly (Charles Durning) comes to hear about the Read More

One Too Many

Crew: Director

Actors: Mare Winningham, Lance Guest, Michelle Pfeiffer, Val Kilmer, Grace Zabriskie

Synopsis: A stellar cast distinguishes this chillingly cautionary ABC Afterschool Special about the perils of drunk driving. Told in flashback, this is the tale of two couples: sensible Beth (Mare Winningham) and Tim (Lance Guest), and footloose Annie (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Eric (Val Kilmer). The latter Read More

Children of the Corn

Actors: Peter Horton, Linda Hamilton, R.G. Armstrong, John Franklin, Courtney Gains

Synopsis: Narrator Job (Robby Kiger) relates the tale of Gatlin, NE, where one day the children, led by a boy preacher named Isaac (John Franklin), rose up and slaughtered all the grown-ups. A few years later, Job and his sister, Sarah (Ammemarie McEvoy), help their friend, Joseph (Jonas Marlowe), try to Read More

Choices of the Heart

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Rene Enriquez, Pamela Bellwood

Synopsis: Choices of the Heart (aka In December the Roses Will Bloom Again) recounts the life and death of Irish lay missionary Jean Donovan. Together with three American nuns, the 27-year-old Donovan (here played by Melissa Gilbert) was murdered in El Salvador in 1980. Constructed in a complex Read More

Split Image

Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Sure to generate conversation, this provocative drama tells the story of how a middle-class family is torn apart when their clean-cut high-achieving son, who has the potential of making it on the Olympic gymnast team, suddenly joins a religious cult. The parents become deeply worried and try to Read More

Freedom

Synopsis: After a particularly bitter argument with her divorced mother, teenager Libby Bellow (Mare Winningham) runs away from home. Eventually, she links up with a traveling carnival and takes on a variety of responsibilities, in so doing coming to the realization that her life at home might not have been Read More

Miracle on Ice

Synopsis: Underpublicized and underappreciated, the US ice hockey team heads for the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. Driven a manner than can be described as merciless by coach Herb Brooks (Karl Malden), the team has learned how to swallow months of defeat and disappointment press on to Read More

The Serial

Actors: Martin Mull, Tuesday Weld, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: There are no cliff-hanging moments in Serial, but there's plenty of laughs in this trenchant comedy comment on 1970s lifestyles. Martin Mull plays the father of a Marin County family that succumbs to every silly fad coming down the pike. Mull tries to distance himself from his family's idiocies Read More

Fade to Black

Actors: Dennis Christopher, Linda Kerridge, Tim Thomerson, Morgan Paull, Hennen Chambers

Synopsis: An interesting, introspective variant on the '80s slasher formula, this low-key psychological thriller details the troubled life of obsessed movie junkie Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher), whose love of old movies extends far beyond his job at a film distributor's warehouse and endless late-night Read More

She's Dressed to Kill

Synopsis: As a once-famous fashion designer prepares to make her big comeback, a mysterious killer begins stalking the beautiful models who gather for the gala celebration in his made-for-television thriller starring Eleanor Parker, Clive Revill, and Jessica Walter. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

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