Robert Desiderio Filmography

Murder in the Mirror

Actors: Jane Seymour, James Farentino, Hayley DuMond, Robert Desiderio, Alex Mendoza

Synopsis: Newly married psychiatrist Mary (Jane Seymour) is identified as the murderer of her husband, Paul (Robert Desiderio), by an unimpeachable eyewitness. Detective Russo (James Farentino) is all for putting the cuffs on Mary, but she convinces him to wait until more evidence is gathered. Conducting Read More

Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story

Actors: Wendie Malick, Robert Desiderio, Kenneth David Gilman, Tyler Gannon

Synopsis: This made-for-cable biopic is a slightly campy recounting of the lives, careers, and inbred rivalry between twin-sister gossip columnists Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren -- both characters played by Wendie Malick, in what one critic described as "a weird tour de force." Covering a period Read More

No Laughing Matter

Actors: Robert Desiderio, Selma Blair, Suzanne Somers

Synopsis: In this made-for-television movie, the pressure of having an alcoholic mother and a needy pregnant best friend proves too much for a caring young teen. As a result she begins losing her grip on everything. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Once You Meet a Stranger

Synopsis: Filmed for television, Once You Meet a Stranger is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train, using the same Patricia Highsmith novel as its source but transforming the protagonists into females. A chance meeting brings together former child star Sheila Gaines (Jacqueline Bisset) and the Read More

Threat of Innocence

Actors: Richard Crenna, Beverly D'Angelo

Murder, She Wrote: Murder on the Thirtieth Floor

Synopsis: Tragedy strikes the publishing industry when Jessica Fletcher's editor Edward Graham (Robert Desiderio), a man known for his extreme mood swings, falls out of his Manhattan office window to his death. The police are content to rule Graham's demise as a suicide, but Jessica doesn't buy this. She is Read More

Darkness Before Dawn

Actors: Meredith Baxter, Stephen Lang, Chelsea Hertford, Alana Austin, Gwynyth Walsh

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-television drama chronicles a couple's downward spiral into drug addiction. Meredith Baxter stars as Mary Ann Guard, a nurse who gets romantically involved with heroin abuser Guy Grand (Stephen Lang). Guy turns Mary Ann onto drugs and her once-stable life is Read More

Cheers: Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey

Actors: Harry Anderson

Synopsis: Harry Anderson returns as impish scam artist Harry the Hat. Sam (Ted Danson) enlists Harry's aid to avoid an embarrassing situation stemming from a wager made between Cheers and Gary's Old Towne Tap on the occasion of St. Patrick's Day. Since this may be the last time that Sam has an opportunity Read More

Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Polly Draper, Robert Desiderio, Kathleen Wilhoite, D David Morin

Synopsis: Desperate and unable to bear a child of their own, a young couple tries to adopt the child of impoverished parents. But when those parents resist, a huge custody battle ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Milan

Synopsis: Season Nine of Murder, She Wrote gets under way with an episode set at a Milan Film Festival, where Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is attending the premiere of a movie based on one of her novels. The film's producer Catherine Wayne (Susan Blakely) is as well known for her string of box-office Read More

Cheers: Bar Wars V: the Final Judgement

Synopsis: Halloween sparks yet another war of practical jokes between the gang at Cheers and the folks at Gary's Olde Towne Tap. Sam (Ted Danson) has come up with a particularly nasty prank, guaranteed to scare anyone -- especially Gary (Robert Desiderio) -- out of a year's life. Unfortunately, the scheme Read More

Murphy Brown: Contractions

Synopsis: With her contract coming to an end, Murphy (Candice Bergen) is approached by Barry Tartiledge (Robert Desiderio) of the Wolf Network (wonder where they came up with NAME to?), who offers her an extremely attractive deal. When Miles (Grant Shaud) comes up with an even more attractive counter-offer Read More

She Stood Alone

Actors: Mare Winningham

Synopsis: She Stood Alone is the fact-based story of Prudence Crandall, described by her admirers as "the bravest woman in America." In Connecticut in the 1830s, Ms. Crandall establishes a school for young woman. Upon her acceptance of a black girl for admission, Prudence endures racism, threats Read More

Stop at Nothing

Actors: Lindsay Frost, Veronica Hamel, Annabella Price, Deborah Anne Gorman, Joseph Hacker

Synopsis: Lindsay Frost is a private eye sucked into a messy domestic case. She's been hired by an anguished father to keep his allegedly psychotic ex-wife from kidnapping their daughter. Enter Veronica Hamel, another private detective, who has been engaged by the mother to reclaim the child from the Read More

People Like Us

Actors: Dennis Farina, Ben Gazzara, Eva Marie Saint

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Dominick Dunne (who virtually disowned the project the minute it hit the small screen), People Like Us is a 2-part, 4-hour TV movie. Ben Gazzara plays a writer whose daughter has been murdered (much like Dunne himself). Upset that the killer's sentence is all too short, Gazzara Read More

Gross Anatomy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, John Scott Clough

Synopsis: Gross Anatomy is to medical school what Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety. Mathew Modine plays a blue-collar kid attending a posh school of medicine, where everyone--teacher and student alike--seems to be well above Modine's social strata. Perhaps as a reaction to Read More

Original Sin

Synopsis: In this drama, a distraught Mid-Western housewife is positive that her husband's father, a crime lord, kidnapped her son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cheers: Bar Wars

Synopsis: A battle of practical jokes rages between the gang at Cheers and the staff of Gary's Old Town Tavern, resulting in damaged sports trophies and stolen property. Hoping to prevent further mayhem, Gary (Robert Desiderio) tries to declare a truce by steering Boston Red Sox player Wade Boggs (playing Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Doom with a View

Synopsis: Once again, the life of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is complicated by the misadventures of her nephew Grady (Michael Horton). This time, Grady's fraternity brother Gary (John Callahan) insists upon inviting Jessica to enjoy the hospitality of an expensive hotel owned by Gary's much-older Read More

Baby Girl Scott

Actors: John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt, Linda Kelsey, Robert Desiderio, Ronny Cox

Synopsis: This heartrending TV movie stars John Lithgow and Mary Beth Hurt as the parents of a severely handicapped premature infant. Weighing a scant 20 ounces at birth, the baby girl has no esophagus and very few signs of being able to stay alive without artificial assistance. The desperate couple sign Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder by Appointment Only

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) attends a cosmetics convention, where her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has landed a job with supremely bitchy perfume manufacturer Lila Lee Amberson (Jayne Meadows). Also present is Liz Gordon (Ann Dusenberry), who had been one of Jessica's most promising writing Read More

Hunter: Fireman

Synopsis: A TV news crew manages to videotape a vicious arsonist in the act. Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) do their best to bring the firebug to justice, but are stymied at every turn by the well-meaning interference of the TV people. Ultimately, howver,. Hunter squares off against the Read More

Maximum Security

Synopsis: A model prisoner does what he can to prevent suffering a mental breakdown while coping with the unbearable conditions in the jail. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The A-Team: The Bells of St. Mary's

Synopsis: The "Bells" are an all-female singing group who once attended St. Mary's Orphanage with Face (Dirk Benedict; in fact, the lead singer is Face's sister. When the girls are threatened with violence by their former record label unless they sign a binding contract, the A-Team steps in to help out. Read More

Oh, God! You Devil

Actors: George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver, Roxanne Hart, Eugene Roche

Synopsis: In the third and final film in the Oh, God! franchise, Bobby Shelton (Ted Wass) is a struggling musician who can't get a break, which bothers him all the more now that his wife, Wendy (Roxanne Hart), is about to have a baby. Desperate and depressed, Bobby announces that he'd sell his soul to get Read More

Moonlight

Synopsis: Robert Desiderio stars in this TV movie as a Chinese food delivery man (the food is Chinese, not Desiderio). While on the job, he witnesses a murder. Since the killer was an international terrorist, Desiderio is pressed into duty by the US government. He is forced to moonlight as a spy, taking on Read More

The Princess and the Cabbie

Synopsis: In this touching drama, an heiress with dyslexia is assisted by a self-taught taxi driver. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More