Powers Boothe Filmography

The Final Season

Actors: Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook, James Gammon, Larry Miller

Synopsis: A place where baseball is more than just a game fights to hold on to the national pastime in this drama inspired by a true story. Norway, Iowa is a little town where folks take baseball seriously -- so much so that even though Norway's high school boasts less than a hundred students, their Read More

24: Season 06

Actors: Jayne Atkinson, Powers Boothe, James Cromwell, Peter MacNicol, Rick Schroder, James Morrison, Marisol Nichols, Carlo Rota, Eric Balfour, Kiefer Sutherland, D.B. Woodside, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Superman: Brainiac Attacks

Actors: Tim Daly, Powers Boothe, Dana Delany, Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: As the Man of Steel prepares to reveal himself to the world and declare his longstanding love for "Daily Planet" reporter Lois Lane, an old nemesis teams with a foe of unlimited power to wreak havoc over Metropolis in this animated adventure that pits Superman against a villain the likes of which Read More

Deadwood: Season 03

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, Robin Weigert, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Powers Boothe, Jeffrey Jones

Sin City

Actors: Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Rosario Dawson

Synopsis: The Eisner Award-winning comic series Sin City comes to life in this live-action feature adaptation from director Robert Rodriguez and creator Frank Miller. Interweaving multiple storylines from the series' history, this violent crime noir paints the picture of the ultimate town without pity Read More

Deadwood: Season 02

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, John Hawkes, Robin Weigert

Deadwood: A Lie Agreed Upon, Part 2

Synopsis: In the wake of Martha (Anna Gunn) and William's (Josh Eriksson) arrival, Seth (Timothy Olyphant) tells Alma (Molly Parker) that they must either leave the camp immediately or "remain and sever connection." He wants Alma to decide their course, and gives her a few hours to do so. Trixie (Paula Malcomson Read More

Deadwood [TV Series]

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker

Synopsis: Forget Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The HBO series Deadwood was as close to the "real thing" as any Western fan was ever going to see on television -- and in its pursuit of reality, the series was not afraid of smashing icons or skewering sacred cows. Could anything less be expected of executive producer David Milch Read More

Deadwood: Season 01

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, Robin Weigert, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Ray McKinnon, Larry Cedar, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: "Welcome to Deadwood...a hell of a place to make your fortune." These are the words that serve as greeting for saddle-weary former lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) as he rides into the illegal Dakota Territory settlement of Deadwood, a scant few weeks after Custer's defeat at the Little Big Read More

Deadwood: Sold Under Sin

Synopsis: As Smith's (Ray McKinnon) health continues to deteriorate, Doc Cochran (Brad Dourif) goes to Al (Ian McShane) for help. Doc also delivers a new boot to Jewel (Geri Jewell). Claggett (Marshall Bell) arrives back in camp, accompanied by General Crook (Peter Coyote) and a cavalry division. Claggett Read More

April 1865: The Month That Saved America

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling book by Jay Winik, this two-hour TV documentary meticulously breaks down the 30 days between April 1 and 30, 1865 -- in other words, the dying gasp of the Civil War. Within those 30 days, an American president was assassinated and another inaugurated, the vital Read More

Second Nature

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Powers Boothe, Louise Lombard, Philip Jackson, Cosima Shaw

Synopsis: The sole survivor of a plane crash that killed his family, Paul Kane (Alec Baldwin) has trouble piecing together memories of his life before the tragedy. Gradually, he comes to accept the fact that he is a professional assassin, working out of London on behalf of the American government. Much to Read More

Justice League: Secret Society, Part 1

Actors: Powers Boothe, Stephen McHattie, Ron Perlman, Ted Levine

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, simian villain Gorilla Grodd hopes to take advantage of dissension and disagreement within the ranks of the Justice League. Grodd organizes his own team of villains, including such nasties as Giganta, Sinestro, and Killer Frost. Inasmuch as Grodd's team Read More

Justice League: Secret Society, Part 2

Actors: Powers Boothe, Stephen McHattie, Ron Perlman, Ted Levine

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, simian villain Gorilla Grodd has organized the Secret Society, a tightly-knit team of fellow baddies. With the members of the Justice League falling prey to petty squabbles and ego tripping, it looks as if the Secret Sociey will be able to take over the world Read More

Frailty

Actors: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter

Synopsis: Actor Bill Paxton made his directorial debut with Frailty. The bulk of the story is told through flashbacks, as a mysterious man (Matthew McConaughey) tells a terrible tale to an FBI agent (Powers Boothe) investigating the "God's Hand" serial killer case. The man grew up in a small town in Texas Read More

Justice League: The Brave and the Bold, Part 1

Actors: Powers Boothe, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Justice Leaguers the Flash and the Green Lantern try to solve the mystery of a band of thieves who claim to have no memory of committing their crimes -- a mystery compounded by the appearance of a talking gorilla! The trail of clues leads to an Read More

Attila

Actors: Gerard Butler, Powers Boothe, Simmone Mackinnon, Tim Curry, Reg Rogers

Synopsis: Attila the Hun, fabled leader of a band of nomadic warriors who fearlessly took on the might of the Roman Empire, has his life story brought to the screen in this two-part miniseries. Attila (Gerard Butler) raised an army from the people of Caspia, and in time created a fighting force so strong Read More

Men of Honor

Actors: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Charlize Theron, Aunjanue Ellis, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: This military drama is based on the true story of Carl Brashear, who was the first African-American to serve as a diver in the United States Navy. Brashear (played by Cuba Gooding Jr.) was born to a poor farming family in the deep South, and joined the Navy in hopes of bettering himself. When Read More

Joan of Arc

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Jacqueline Bisset, Powers Boothe, Neil Patrick Harris, Maury Chaykin

Synopsis: A literal interpretation of the oft-produced biography of 15th century historical heroine Joan d'Arc, this four-hour television miniseries version of Joan's story is lavishly produced. In a tiny village during the Hundred Years' War, teenager Joan d'Arc (Leelee Sobieski) has been raised by her Read More

U-Turn

Actors: Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Lopez, Powers Boothe, Claire Danes, Joaquin Phoenix, Jon Voight

Synopsis: Oliver Stone directed this John Ridley screenplay adapted from Ridley's novel Stray Dogs. A drifter (Sean Penn) eludes Las Vegas collection agents and arrives in a small town where he decides to linger after his car has a breakdown. Here he gets involved with the locals, including an unhappily Read More

True Women

Actors: Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this Civil War-era epic centers on the exploits of Sarah Ashby McClure (Dana Delany) and her sister Euphemia (Annabeth Gish) as they try to make their way on the male-dominated West Texas plains. When their home is threatened by Mexican forces and Native American warriors Read More

Dalva

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Powers Boothe, Carroll Baker, Rod Steiger, Jesse Borrego

Synopsis: Farrah Fawcett delivers a dramatic tour de force in the title role of the made-for-TV Dalva. As a teenager, Dalva had fallen in love with Native American Duane Stonehorse (Jesse Borrego). Unbeknownst to her, Duane was her half brother -- a fact that came to light when she delivered Duane's Read More

Mutant Species

Actors: Leo Rossi, Powers Boothe, Wilford Brimley, Denise Crosby, Ted Prior

Synopsis: In this sci-fi actioner, a crew of clean-up specialists dispatched to the site of a misfired rocket have no idea that they have been set up to be unwilling participants in an evil bio-geneticist's mad scheme to turn one of them into a mutant killing machine, a human prototype for a new kind of Read More

Tragediya Veka

Actors: Mikhail Ulyanov, Nikolai Olyalin, Powers Boothe, Frits Dits, Ivo Garrani

Sudden Death

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry, Whittni Wright, Ross Malinger

Synopsis: Pittsburgh Penguins owner Howard Baldwin was the producer of Sudden Death, and the action is set in his hockey arena, in which the Penguins are playing the Chicago Blackhawks. Pittsburgh fire inspector Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is attending the game with his two children. He's quit Read More

Nixon

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

Blue Sky

Actors: Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Amy Locane

Synopsis: Blue Sky was the last film directed by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) before his death in 1991 and one of the last releases from once-thriving Orion Films, whose bankruptcy kept the picture on the shelf for several years. It also features two career-high performances by Tommy Lee Jones and Jessica Lange Read More

Tombstone

Actors: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Robert John Burke, Dana Delany

Synopsis: A high-energy action adventure based on legend rather than historical fact finds Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) desiring to retire from law enforcement. With brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan (Bill Paxton), he arrives in Tombstone, Arizona intending to build his fortune. He discovers that Read More

Angely Smerti

Actors: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Yekaterina Strizhenova, Powers Boothe, Akhim Petri, Regimantas Adomajtis

Marked for Murder

Actors: Powers Boothe

Synopsis: A former criminal is recruited to help cops in this made-for-television movie. Powers Boothe stars as Mace Moutron, also known as The Sandman, a former convict who is used by the police to help fight crime. More familiar and more satisfied with the swiftness of street justice, the Sandman decides Read More

Rapid Fire

Actors: Brandon Lee, Powers Boothe, Nick Mancuso, Raymond J. Barry, Kate Hodge

Synopsis: In this better-than-average kick-boxer foray, Brandon Lee (son of famed martial-arts film star, Bruce Lee) stars as a young art student who happens to witness a drug murder and is placed in protective custody by federal agents. It's not too long before he realizes that the only real protection he Read More

National Geographic: Eternal Enemies - Lions and Hyenas

Synopsis: Filmed in northern Botswana, this National Geographic documentary examines the bitter competition for survival between lions and hyenas. These two species act like warring kingdoms, viciously attacking one another, stealing food, and constantly tormenting each other. Several of the scenes are Read More

Wild Card

Wildcard

Synopsis: In this action adventure, the mysterious Preacher, a "special forces" veteran, card sharp and ex-clergyman, is called to a town on the Texas-Mexico border to investigate a suspicious helicopter crash involving a Vietnam veteran pilot. His investigation reveals that the town is totally corrupt. Read More

Family of Spies: The Walker Spy Ring, Part 1

Actors: Powers Boothe, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: The true story of American turncoat John Walker, Jr. is related blow-by-blow in this made-for-TV movie. Powers Boothe stars as Walker, a Navy petty officer who spends half of his career selling secrets to the Soviets. At first the soul of discretion, the hard-drinking, philandering Walker Read More

Stalingrad

Actors: Powers Boothe, Liubomiras Lauciavicius, Sergei Nikonenko, Fernando Alende, Mikhail Ulyanov

By Dawn's Early Light

Synopsis: Soviet radicals upset with the thawing of the Cold War explode a nuclear weapon in Russia, setting off a series of events that may very well trigger World War III. The president (Martin Landau) has been isolated after a helicopter accident and must outwit government and military officials who are Read More

The Spree

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Rita Moreno, Powers Boothe

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a sexy burglar coerces a reluctant cop into a lucrative life of crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Extreme Prejudice

Actors: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Maria Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Modern-day Texas Ranger Jack Benteen (Nick Nolte) was once the best friend of local drug kingpin Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe). At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack's lover Sarita (Maria Conchita Alonso), Cash's former mistress. When Sarita tires of Jack's Spartan Read More

Into the Homeland

Actors: Powers Boothe, C. Thomas Howell

Synopsis: This made-for-cable thriller stars Powers Boothe as a former policeman whose son (C. Thomas Howell) has fallen prey to a band of white supremacists. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

A Breed Apart

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe, Kathleen Turner, Donald Pleasence, John Dennis Johnston

Synopsis: Surly conservationist Rutger Hauer makes it his life's mission to protect the eggs of the endangered bald eagle. Collector Donald Pleasence wants to appropriate a few of these eggs without invoke Hauer's terrible wrath. Pleasence hires mountain climber Powers Boothe to pose as a magazine Read More

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Blackmailers Don't Shoot

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Red Wind

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Spanish Blood

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Pickup on Noon Street

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Trouble is My Business

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Guns at Cyrano's

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Smart Aleck Kill

Synopsis: Smart-Aleck Kill is one of six hour-long Philip Marlowe episodes originally telecast in 1986 on the HBO cable service. Powers Boothe stars as Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's quintessential 1940s hard-boiled detective. This time he's investigating a possible murder...that occured nearly twenty years Read More

The Emerald Forest

Actors: Powers Boothe, Meg Foster, Charley Boorman, Dira Pass, Rui Polonah

Synopsis: The Emerald Forest is based on a true story, as related by Los Angeles Times correspondent Leonard Greenwood. Powers Boothe stars as a US engineer working on a dam project in Brazil. Boothe's young son (played by director John Boorman's son Charley Boorman) is kidnapped in the rain forest by a Read More

Red Dawn

Actors: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Ron O'Neal, William Smith, Powers Boothe

Synopsis: Set at an indeterminate point in the future, this drama with an overt anti-communist message begins as an ostensible war movie: Russian and Cuban forces have invaded the U.S. and are viciously eliminating the inhabitants of a small town, when a group of teens escapes and plans a counterattack. Jed Read More

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye [TV Series]

Actors: Powers Boothe

Synopsis: Of all the actors who've played Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled private Philip Marlowe over the years, Humphrey Bogart, Dick Powell and Powers Boothe have been the hands-down audience favorites. Boothe came in late in the game, essaying the role in the five-part 1983 HBO miniseries Philip Marlowe: Private Eye Read More

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Finger Man

Synopsis: "Powers Boothe recreates Bogart's famous sleuth" read the ad campaign for the five-part HBO series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye. Hey, how about a little credit for Raymond Chandler, who only created the character of hard-bitten, eloquent gumshoe Marlowe? First telecast April 23, 1983 Read More

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: The Pencil

Synopsis: From the opening notes of John Cameron's bluesy musical score, we know we're in for an authentic recreation of the 1940s milieu inhabited by Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled private eye Philip Marlowe. Powers Boothe stars as Marlowe in "The Pencil," the first of five hour-long mysteries produced for Read More

Southern Comfort

Actors: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter

Synopsis: A handful of part time soldiers unwittingly turn a field exercise into a miniature war in this offbeat action drama from writer and director Walter Hill. A group of National Guard reservists are sent to Louisiana on a chilly weekend for war games exercises. None of these weekend warriors seem Read More

A Cry for Love

Synopsis: Jill Robinson's Bed-Time-Story, inspired by actual events, was the source for the made-for-TV A Cry for Love. Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets Powers Boothe, an alcoholic and three-time loser in Read More

Cruising

Actors: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino

Synopsis: New York City detective Steve Burns Al Pacino receives orders from Captain Edelson Paul Sorvino to solve a series of brutal murders in the gay community. Steve scours the gay bars that caters to same-sex sadomasochism in a desperate attempt to solve the crime. As he infiltrates the scene, he Read More

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Actors: Powers Boothe, Veronica Cartwright, Rosalind Cash, Brad Dourif, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie was, of course, sparked by the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American religious "colony" of Jonestown. The catalyst for this tragedy was cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones (played by Powers Boothe, who won an Emmy for his performance), head of the Read More

The Plutonium Incident

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama produced by David Susskind preceded the release of Silkwood by three years, but tells basically the same story. Janet Margolin is the nuclear plant employee who blows the whistle on hazardous conditions and finds herself intimidated, harassed and finally targeted for Read More

Skag

Synopsis: The short-lived TV series Skag was introduced with a 3-hour premiere on January 6, 1980. Karl Malden stars as Pete "Skag" Skagska, Pittsburgh steel mill foreman and family man. In the pilot, Skag attempts to deal with several family crises: his father's debilitating stroke, his strained Read More

The Goodbye Girl

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict, Barbara Rhoades

Synopsis: Marsha Mason is known as "The Goodbye Girl" because of all the live-in boyfriends who have said ta-ta to her in the past few years. A former Broadway chorus dancer, the divorced Mason lives in the Manhattan apartment of her latest lost love with her daughter Quinn Cummings. Enter arrogant actor Richard Dreyfuss Read More

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