Richard Gant Filmography

Ezra

Actors: Mamoudu Turay Kamara, Mariam N'Diaye, Mamusu Kallon, Merveille Lukeba, Richard Gant

Synopsis: A Sierra Leone boy swept away from his family by rebels and forced to fight in a devastating civil war attempts to reestablish some sense of normalcy after fighting ceases and he is forced to speak before a Truth and Reconciliation Committee. Young Ezra was only seven years old when rebels Read More

Daddy Day Camp

Actors: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Lochlyn Munro, Richard Gant, Tamala Jones, Paul Rae

Synopsis: Directed by one-time child star Fred Savage, Daddy Day Camp, the sequel to Eddie Murphy's Daddy Day Care, stars Cuba Gooding Jr. and Paul Rae as Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson, a pair of fathers who attempt to keep their summer camp afloat even though they are under dire economic strain. In order Read More

Norbit

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews

Synopsis: A meek and lovable milquetoast married to an overbearing, overweight tyrant finds his life turned upside down when he meets the woman of his dreams in this romantic comedy starring Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Eddie Griffin. His entire life, Norbit (Murphy) has been picked Read More

Deadwood: Something Very Expensive

Synopsis: Alma (Molly Parker) proposes the formation of a bank in Deadwood, with Sol (John Hawkes) as chief officer. She also has a bout of morning sickness in the presence of Sol and Ellsworth (Jim Beaver). When Sol reports the news to Seth (Timothy Olyphant), he's less than thrilled. Merrick (Jeffrey Jones Read More

Young Cesar

Actors: Clifton Powell, Dominic Daniel, Sam Sarpong

Synopsis: An incarcerated father is forced to stand by and watch as his two young sons struggle to survive on the streets in a gritty urban drama starring Clifton Powell and Sean Blakemore. Ali Dean is a failed father, and now he will bear witness as his failure threatens to turn into an endless cycle of Read More

Charmed: House Call

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Rebecca Balding, Richard Gant, Jesse Woodrow

Synopsis: The Charmed Ones summon a witch doctor (Richard Gant) to rid their manor of troublesome ghosts. Through a misunderstanding, the doctor concludes that the girls are bad witches, whereupon he places a hex on them, imbuing all three of them with potentially dangerous obsessions. The result: Paige (Rose McGowan Read More

Smallville: Redux

Synopsis: Unbeknownst to her husband, Jonathan (John Schneider), Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole) has asked for help from her father (George Coe) to help pay off the Kent farm's ever mounting debts -- thereby setting up the first-ever meeting between Clark Kent (Tom Welling) and his grandfather, with whom Read More

Kingdom Come

Actors: LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Loretta Devine, Anthony Anderson, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Based on the play Dearly Departed by David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones (who also penned this screenplay), this new comedy from the director of Jason's Lyric looks at a family gathering after one of their clan dies of a stroke. In the midst of a sweltering summer, the Slocumb family convenes. Read More

The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, John Ales

Synopsis: Overweight scientific genius Sherman Klump and his extended family are back in this sequel to the 1996 comedy smash The Nutty Professor. Sherman (played once again by Eddie Murphy) has come up with a discovery that ought to make him a multimillionaire: a youth serum that turns back the user's body Read More

NYPD Blue: Dead Girl Walking

Synopsis: The recently demoted Dornan (Richard Gant) returns to the 15th in search of a stash of illegal weapons. This leads to a racial-political crisis, culminating in interdepartmental ill will and a gunshot wound for Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel). On another front, a mother positively identifies the body Read More

NYPD Blue: Show and Tell

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), Costas (Sharon Lawrence), and Dornan (Richard Gant) close in on the murderer who framed Suarez -- and who is dying of leukemia. A case involving retired cops who appear to have gone bad results in friction between the squad, the Internal Affairs Bureau, and the FBI. Read More

NYPD Blue: Grime Scene

Synopsis: The first teaming of Danny Sorenson (Rick Schroder) and Diane Russell (Kim Delaney) is not an easy one for Diane, who still hasn't gotten over the loss of Danny's predecessor, Bobby Simone. Her grief has resulted in profound depression, and may lead her back into her old drinking habits. In other Read More

NYPD Blue: Safe Home

Synopsis: When Sylvia dies from her gunshot wounds, the squad worries that the grieving Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) will go off the deep end. Indeed, Sipowicz shows signs of complete withdrawal, save for his tender loving care of Theo (Austin Majors), the child Sylvia bore him. Back at the Cullinen trial Read More

NYPD Blue: Judas Priest

Synopsis: In his efforts to help his ex-wife, Katie (Debra Monk), and his former colleague Dornan (Richard Gant) in their separate struggles with alcohol, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) appears to be playing favorites. Cohen (Michael B. Silver) tries to gather more evidence against Malcolm Cullinen, in hopes of Read More

NYPD Blue: I Have a Dream

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) has been plagued with nightmares involving his own father and his sometimes colleague Sgt. Dornan (Richard Gant). Sorenson (Rick Schroder) must determine if the police officer who shot a drug dealer acted properly. Ex-cop Gotelli (Carmine Caridi) solicits the squad's help Read More

NYPD Blue: Danny Boy

Synopsis: Rick Schroder joins the cast of NYPD Blue as Detective Danny Sorenson, the replacement for the late Bobby Simone. Making his entrance as everyone -- including the heartbroken Diane Russell (Kim Delaney) -- is painfully adjusting to Bobby's death, Danny plunges into the thick of things by Read More

Johnny B.

Actors: Richard Brooks, Richard Gant, Vonetta McGee

NYPD Blue: Czech Bouncer

Synopsis: The victims of a robbery-homicide turn out to be two old friends of Detective Danny Sorenson (Rick Schroder). While helping Sorenson investigate this incident, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) also lobbies to reopen the Suarez murder case -- which hits a snag when Suarez is killed in prison. Read More

ER: Vanishing Act

Synopsis: Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) and Lynette Evans (Penny Johnson Jerald) try to dissuade a wounded street-gang member (Jermaine Montell) from escaping the ER to seek out vengeance. On a more personal note, Carol thinks she may be pregnant with Ross' (George Clooney) baby. Elsewhere, the Read More

Sour Grapes

Actors: Steven Weber, Craig Bierko, Matt Keeslar, Karen Sillas, Robyn Peterman

Synopsis: Sitcom veteran Larry David, the co-creator of TV's Seinfeld, made his big-screen directorial debut with this clever comedy featuring distinct Seinfeld overtones. Sour Grapes was released April 17, 1998, only four weeks prior to the last Seinfeld episode. Selma Maxwell (Viola Harris) is the Read More

Divorcing Jack

Actors: David Thewlis, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Lindsay, Jason Isaacs, Laura Fraser

Synopsis: On the eve of near-future Northern Ireland's first general election, well-marketed reformer Michael Brinn (Robert Lindsay), a shoo-in for prime minister, has newspaper columnist Dan Starkey's dander up. Working the election beat alongside visiting Boston Globe writer Charles Parker (Richard Gant) Read More

Bean

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed, Harris Yulin, Burt Reynolds

Synopsis: Comic actor Rowan Atkinson brought his bumbling character Mr. Bean from television to the big screen with this British comedy. Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is a well-meaning but not especially bright fellow with a gift for making the worst of any situation. Bean is about to be fired from his job as a Read More

Friends: The One With Ross's Thing

Synopsis: The "thing" of the title is a strange skin condition on a delicate part of Ross' anatomy. While Ross (David Schwimmer) consults Phoebe's herbalist, Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) is torn between two boyfriends with similar qualifications but vastly different professions. And Monica (Courteney Cox) wonders Read More

Babylon 5: No Surrender, No Retreat

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: This Babylon 5 episodes takes its title from the name of the series' fourth-season saga. The world of Proxima 3 is the battleground for a crucial confrontation between Captain Sheridan and Earth President Clark. Meanwhile, Londo hopes to arrange a joint effort between the Centauri and the Narn to Read More

Babylon 5: The Face of the Enemy

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Garibaldi hatches a scheme to capture Sheridan, using the Captain's father as bait. Pharameutical baron William Edgars (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) then startles Garibaldi by explaining his true motivations. And Lyta agonizes about the future of Telepaths. Written by . Michael Straczynski, "The Face of Read More

Raven

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Matt Battaglia, David Ackroyd, Krista Allen, Richard Gant

Synopsis: Originally made for and aired on the Movie Channel, but then released to video, this action thriller features Burt Reynolds as a mercenary who gets revenge upon the quartet of corrupt government officials who send him and his squad on a mission to Bosnia and then plan to kill him. Originally Read More

Touched By an Angel: Sins of the Father

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) assumes the guise of a journalist, assigned to interview teenage death-row inmate Luther (DeAundre Dixon) while Tess (Della Reese) provides moral support to Luther's mother Valerie (Debbie Allen) and brother Sam (Robert Ri'chard). Through her visit with Luther, Monica is Read More

NYPD Blue: Head Case

Synopsis: Who would want to decapitate a kindly professor? That's what Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) are determined to find out. Sipowicz is also anxious to learn the secret being withheld from him by his son Andy Jr. (Michael DeLuise), who is supposed to be in the Air Force. And Martinez Read More

City Hall

Actors: Al Pacino, John Cusack, Bridget Fonda, Danny Aiello, Martin Landau

Synopsis: Three A-list screenwriters -- (Nicholas Pileggi, Bo Goldman, and Paul Schrader) -- contributed to the script of this idealistic political drama. John Pappas (Al Pacino) is the popular, ethical Mayor of New York; Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) is his even more idealistic and principled deputy. When a Read More

NYPD Blue: Travels With Andy

Synopsis: As the Sipowicz-Costas nuptuals approach, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) expresses a desire to get married quickly in a Maryland civil service, while Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence) wants a big, fat Greek Orthodox Wedding. Back on the job, Sipowicz and Simone (Jimmy Smits) investigate an Read More

Posse

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Big Daddy Kane

Synopsis: Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the frontier with this action-packed western that's also an homage to spaghetti Westerns. During the Spanish-American War, a squadron of black soldiers led by Jesse Lee (Van Peebles) Read More

CB4: The Movie

Actors: Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Deezer D, Chris Elliott, Phil Hartman

Synopsis: Comedian Chris Rock stars in this scattershot satire of rap music in the vein of This Is Spinal Tap. This film within a film begins with A. White (Chris Elliot) screening a rough cut of a documentary he has made of the notorious CB4 rap group -- consisting of group leader Albert, also know as MC Read More

Wings: Joe Blows, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, a stressed-out Joe (Tim Daly) has completely dropped out of sight, leaving Brian (Steven Weber) to manage Sandpiper Air all by himself. Eventually Joe's whereabouts are discovered, and after much coercion he is persuaded to return to Nantucket. By this time Read More

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Actors: John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane Hodder, Steven Williams, Steven Culp

Synopsis: Chapter nine in the Friday the 13th series finds supernatural psycho Jason Voorhees returning from the dead to possess the body of a medical coroner. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Men Don't Tell

Synopsis: Unique among the many made-for-TV dramas about spousal abuse--most of which are about women victimized by men--Men Don't Tell dramatizes the true story of a loving husband who is terrorized by the violent behavior of his wife. Ed MacAffrey (Peter Strauss) has long endured the physical and Read More

Tower

Actors: Paul Reiser, Susan Norman, Richard Gant

Synopsis: This sci-fi made-for-television movie tells the story of a man battling a high-tech building security system. Paul Reiser stars as Tony Minot, a new employee at security-conscious building. When Tony accidentally damages his key-card at home and later runs it through the system at work, he Read More

NYPD Blue: Serge the Concierge

Synopsis: Robin Wirkus (Debrah Farentino) is upset by the terms of her late husband's will, which will provide for Kelly (David Caruso) so long as he keeps an eye on Robin. Elsewhere, the discovery of the "wrong" corpse leads to a murder conspiracy involving a hotelier and a concierge. And Sipowicz's (Dennis Franz Read More

Murphy Brown: Till Death or Next Thursday Do We Part

Synopsis: No sooner has he finished the screenplay for his own spy novel The Little Dutch Boy than Will Forrest (Scott Bryce) is sued for plagiarism. In order to clear her husband's name, Corky (Faith Ford) must read portions of her own diary in court. Unfortunately, what Corky has written in private bids Read More

Stone Cold

Actors: Brian Bosworth, Lance Henriksen, William Forsythe, Arabella Holzbog, Sam McMurray

Synopsis: In the early '90s, Brian Bosworth made the seamless transition from football bad boy to onscreen bad ass. In Stone Cold, the Boz plays cop Joe Huff, a brute force specialist. The FBI contracts him to take down a biker gang known as the Brotherhood, who have been implicated in drug trafficking and Read More

False Arrest

Actors: Donna Mills, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Though based on fact, the two-part TV movie False Arrest plays more like one of those Linda Blair "babes in prison" flicks. Donna Mills plays Joyce Lukezic, a well-off Phoenix businesswoman/homemaker accused of murder. She knows, and we know, that she didn't do it. The double homicide was the Read More

Rocky V

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Sage Stallone, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Touted upon its release as the finale of the Rocky saga, this fifth entry in the long-running series of sports dramas reunites star Sylvester Stallone with John G. Avildsen, director of the Oscar-winning original. Stallone is Rocky Balboa, suffering from career-ending brain damage as a result of Read More

The Freshman

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Marlon Brando, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, Paul Benedict

Synopsis: In this farcical comedy, Matthew Broderick plays Clark Kellogg, an aspiring director who arrives in New York City to attend film school. However, moments after he arrives in the city, he's robbed by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby), leaving him no money for the $700 in books required by his instructor Read More

Collision Course

Actors: Jay Leno, Chris Sarandon, Ernie Hudson, John Hancock

Synopsis: An arrogant Detroit cop (Jay Leno) must work with his efficient Japanese counterpart (Pat Morita) to corner an evil ganglord. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Internal Affairs

Actors: Lee Richardson, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Internal Affairs is the second TV-movie based on the works of detective novelist William Bayer. Richard Crenna, who first played NYPD detective Richard Janek in 1985's Doubletake, is back, now as a functionary of Internal Affairs. He has been assigned to solve the murder of a woman who may have Read More

Love or Money?

Actors: Tim Daly, Michael Garin, Haviland Morris, Kevin McCarthy, Shelley Fabares

Synopsis: A lucrative real estate deal, or romance with the boss' daughter--that's the dilemma facing a yuppie in this comedy. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Suspect

Actors: Cher, Dennis Quaid, Liam Neeson, John Mahoney, Joe Mantegna, Philip Bosco

Synopsis: British filmmaker Peter Yates directs Suspect, a suspenseful courtroom drama set in Washington, D.C. After a Supreme Court justice commits suicide and a Justice Department secretary is found dead, a deaf-mute homeless veteran, Carl Wayne Anderson (Liam Neeson), is the suspected killer. Lonely yet Read More

Krush Groove

Actors: Blair Underwood, Joseph Simmons, Sheila E., Mark "Prince Markie Dee" Morales, Damon Wimbley

Synopsis: In-between rappin' numbers by groups like Run-DMC and The Fat Boys, an almost unnoticeable plot unfolds as manager Russell (Blair Underwood) desperately looks for funding to press more records for Run-DMC's first hit. This gets him into deep water when he borrows from the wrong man and then is Read More

Night of the Juggler

Actors: James Brolin, Cliff Gorman, Richard S. Castellano, Abby Bluestone, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: The protagonists are secondary and uni-dimensional in this unlikely actioner about a divorced father (James Brolin) tearing through New York chasing the man who kidnapped his daughter (Abby Bluestone). Sean Boyd (Brolin) is an ex-cop with an enemy on the force out to kill him. Between dodging his Read More

Last Breeze of Summer