Peter Masterson Filmography

Born:: June 1, 1934 in Houston, TX
Occupation:: Actor, Director
Birth name:: Carlos Bee Masterson Jr
Biography:: Peter Masterson (born Carlos Bee Masterson Jr.) started out as a New York and Broadway stage actor in the early '60s, but switched to feature films by mid-decade, making his debut in Ambush Bay (1966). His notable films from this period include Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the Night (1967) and...Read More

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Whiskey School

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Swanson, Olympia Dukakis, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lainie Kazan

Synopsis: Drawing inspiration from the intervention of a well-known American playwright, director Peter Masterson's adaptation of the stage play by JoAnn Tedesco (who also wrote the screenplay) takes viewers on an emotional rollercoaster ride as one man's support system struggle to save their friend from Read More

2005
Lost Junction

Crew: Director

Actors: Neve Campbell, Billy Burke, Jake Busey, Charles Powell, Michel Perron

Synopsis: Peter Masterson's Lost Junction stars Billy Burke as Jimmy McGee, a hitchhiker who becomes involved with Missy Lofton (Neve Campbell) after she offers him a ride. He discovers that her husband's dead body is also along for the ride in the trunk. Jimmy has fallen for Missy and helps her get rid of Read More

2003
West of Here

Crew: Cinematographer, Co-producer, Director

Actors: Josh Hamilton, Mary Stuart Masterson, Norbert Leo Butz, Tate Donovan, Elisabeth Moss

Synopsis: West of Here, the directorial debut of filmmaker Peter Masterson's son Peter C.B. Masterson, centers around the aftermath of the death of songwriter Gil Blackwell's (Josh Hamilton) cousin and collaborator, Josiah (Norbert Leo Butz). After Josiah's death, Gil starts off on a cross-country trek from Read More

2002
Mermaid

Crew: Director

Actors: Jodelle Ferland, Samantha Mathis, Ellen Burstyn, David Kaye

Synopsis: A child's letter to heaven gets an unexpected response in this touching family drama, inspired by actual incidents. Desi is a five-year-old girl who has become inconsolable after the death of her father. Desi's mother, Rhonda, isn't sure what to do for her troubled daughter and when the girl tells Read More

2000
The Only Thrill

Crew: Director

Actors: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Diane Lane, Robert Patrick, Tate Donovan

Synopsis: In this drama about love and how it can go wrong, Reese McHenry (Sam Shepard) is the owner of a clothing store who, in 1966, hires Carol Fitzsimmons (Diane Keaton) to work for him as a seamstress. Carol is a widow, and Reese's wife is in a coma; both are lonely, and they begin a habit of going to Read More

1997
Lily Dale

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Guinee, Stockard Channing, Mary Stuart Masterson, Sam Shepard, John Slattery

Synopsis: A production of Hallmark Hall of Fame that originally aired on the Showtime Cable Network, this family drama tells the moving tale of a 19 year-old boy's attempts to reconnect with his estranged family. The story is set in Texas, 1910. The boy is Horace Robedaux. His real father died when Read More

1996
Arctic Blue

Crew: Director

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Dylan Walsh, Rya Kihlstedt, Richard Bradford

Synopsis: A plane crash lands an amateur Los Angeles marshal and a dangerous prisoner in the Alaskan wilderness. Their desperate situation forces them to rely on each other. However, the city-boy cop knows nothing about survival in the wilds while his captive is an expert. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Convicts

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Mel Winkler, Starletta DuPois

Synopsis: Set upon a struggling turn-of-the-century Texas sugar-cane plantation, this brutal and realistic drama centers on the efforts of an aging plantation boss (Robert Duvall), using convicts for workers, to keep his farm afloat. The story is adapted from Horton Foote's cycle of plays The Orphan's Home. Read More

12/6/91
Night Game

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony Palmer, Roy Scheider, Karen Young, Richard Bradford, Paul Gleason, Carlin Glynn

Synopsis: Night Game is a sweetly irreverent, low-key comedy which is also an engaging crime thriller. Mike Seaver (Roy Scheider), an ex-ballplayer who's now a homicide detective with the Galveston police, has to solve some vicious grappling-hook murders, somehow linked to hometown-wins by the Houston Read More

9/15/89
Blood Red

Crew: Director

Actors: Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young, Carlin Glynn

Synopsis: Siblings Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts appear in this old-fashioned saga about oppressed Sicilian wine-growers in 19th-century California. Giancarlo Giannini stars as Sebastian Collogero, the robust Italian patriarch who is battling with railroad mogul William Bradford Berrigan (Dennis Hopper) to Read More

8/18/89
Full Moon in Blue Water

Crew: Director

Actors: Gene Hackman, Teri Garr, Burgess Meredith, Elias Koteas, Kevin Cooney

Synopsis: Written by playwright Bill Bozzone, Full Moon in Blue Water stars Gene Hackman as Floyd, the owner of a small bar in a coastal Texas town. Floyd's emotional baggage is awesome: he has never recovered from the death of his wife, he is saddled with his senile father "The General" (Burgess Meredith) Read More

11/23/88
Gardens of Stone

Actors: James Caan, Anjelica Huston, James Earl Jones, D.B. Sweeney, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Set in Washington D.C. during the Vietnam War era, Gardens of Stone concentrates on the trials and tribulations of the Arlington National Cemetery home guard. James Caan plays career soldier Sgt. Clell Hazard, who has come to the sad conclusion that Vietnam is unwinnable and that America should Read More

5/8/87
The Trip to Bountiful

Crew: Director

Actors: Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay

Synopsis: Adapted by Horton Foote from his own television play, A Trip to Bountiful is set in 1947 Houston. Forced by circumstances to live her loathsome son (John Heard) and daughter-in-law (Carlin Glynn), elderly Geraldine Page wants nothing more out of life than to return to her home town of Bountiful. Read More

12/20/85
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Crew: Book Author, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim Nabors

Synopsis: In this filmization of the hit Broadway musical, a popular brothel is threatened with a shutdown by Texas authorities. Burt Reynolds plays the Sheriff, while Dolly Parton portrays the Chicken Ranch madam. While this film has its moments, it never reaches the entertainment heights of its stage Read More

1982
A Question of Guilt

Synopsis: Loosely based on a true story this sudsy made-for-television courtroom drama tells the story of a rather hedonistic young divorcee who is accused of killing her own child. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Delta County, USA

Synopsis: Delta County USA was the feature-length pilot film for a proposed prime-time serial. The titular county is an old, hidebound Southern community, harboring ever so many dark secrets. The dramatic tension of the film is manifested in the lack of understanding between the older citizens and the young Read More

1977
The Stepford Wives

Actors: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Patrick O'Neal

Synopsis: In the William Goldman-scripted, Bryan Forbes-directed adaptation of Ira Levin's savagely satiric sci-fi novel The Stepford Wives, housewife Joanna (Katharine Ross) moves with husband Walter (Peter Masterson) and their children to the "ideal" suburban community of Stepford, CT. Slowly, Joanna Read More

1975
Man on a Swing

Actors: Richard Dryden

Synopsis: Man on a Swing, purportedly based on a true case, is a puzzling crime thriller concerning a clairvoyant who helps find a murderer. After a murder is committed, supposed clairvoyant Franklin Wills goes to police Chief Lee Tucker (Cliff Robertson) and gives him details of the crime that he has seen Read More

1974
The Exorcist

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Kitty Winn

Synopsis: Novelist William Peter Blatty based his best-seller on the last known Catholic-sanctioned exorcism in the United States. Blatty transformed the little boy in the 1949 incident into a little girl named Regan, played by 14-year-old Linda Blair. Suddenly prone to fits and bizarre behavior, Regan Read More

1973
Pueblo

Actors: Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Pueblo is a 2-hour videotaped special, originally telecast March 29, 1973 on ABC Theatre. Hal Holbrook stars as commander Lloyd M. Bucher, who in January of 1968 was forced to surrender the USS Pueblo to North Korea. The drama is staged in an impressionistic manner, with dramatized Read More

1973
Tomorrow

Actors: Olga Bellin, Robert Duvall, James Franks, Johnny Mask

Synopsis: Horton Foote was the adapting hand behind this superlative black and white filmization of the 1939 William Faulkner story Tomorrow. Framed in flashback, the film explores the personal reasons that semi-literate farmer Robert Duvall is the lone jury holdout in the guilty verdict for a young killer Read More

1972
Von Richthofen and Brown

Actors: John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus

Synopsis: This film of the wartime exploits of Baron Von Richthoven, who was also known as the "Red Baron," was a relatively lavish Corman-brothers production, and is directed by Roger Corman. The film's airborne dogfight sequences are among its most notable features. Vintage World War I airplanes were Read More

1970
Counterpoint

Actors: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: The beauty of classical music confronts the ugliness and treachery of war in this unusual drama. Lionel Evans (Charlton Heston) is the director of a well-respected symphony orchestra touring European concert halls in 1944. In the midst of one concert, the city where they are playing is attacked by Read More

1967
In the Heat of the Night

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an unusual murder has been committed. Rod Steiger plays sheriff Bill Gillespie, a good lawman despite his racial prejudices. When Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier Read More

1967
Ambush Bay

Actors: Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney, James Mitchum, Peter Masterson, Harry Lauter

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, a unit of Marines have 96 hours to make it through the dense Philippine jungle and locate a Japanese-American girl who has information needed to plan the invasion of the Japanese-occupied island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966