Robert John Burke Filmography

Gossip Girl: Season 01

Actors: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Taylor Momsen

The Oh in Ohio

Actors: Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Danny DeVito, Mischa Barton, Miranda Bailey

Synopsis: A woman gets a belated introduction to the joy of sex in this comedy. Priscilla (Parker Posey) is a thirtysomething public-relations agent with the unenviable job of trying to lure new businesses to Cleveland, OH. Priscilla is married to Jack (Paul Rudd), a high-school teacher who is reaching the Read More

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Actors: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella

Synopsis: George Clooney pays homage to one of the icons of American broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, in this fact-based drama, which was Clooney's second feature film as a director. In 1953, Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) was one of the best-known newsmen on television as host of both Read More

Piggie

Actors: Savannah Haske, Dean Wareham

Synopsis: A strange teenager becomes obsessed with a man who has a dangerous past in this independent drama. Fannie (Savannah Haske) is a slow-witted young woman living with her father (Robert John Burke) on a small farm in upstate New York. Fannie's only friends are her pet pig and an elderly woman who she Read More

Hide and Seek

Actors: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, Amy Irving

Synopsis: A newly single father discovers his daughter is caught up in a web of evil in this thriller. David Callaway (Robert De Niro) has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily (Dakota Fanning), on his own after the unexpected death of his wife. David is at first amused to discover that Emily Read More

Connie and Carla

Actors: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella, Alec Mapa

Synopsis: Actress and writer Nia Vardalos, who became an overnight sensation with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, returns to the big screen with this gender-bending comedy. Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) are best friends who've shared the same dream ever since they were teenagers -- making a name for Read More

Speak

Actors: Hallee Hirsh, Kristen Stewart, Eric Lively, Elizabeth Perkins, D.B. Sweeney, Steve Zahn

Synopsis: Award-winning short filmmaker Jessica Sharzer makes her feature debut with the teen drama Speak, based on the young-adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson. Kristen Stewart stars as high school freshman Melinda, who has lost her ability to speak. Ever since a traumatic event that occurred at a party Read More

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? Read More

Law & Order: Brother's Keeper

Synopsis: A criminal well known to detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) may have been responsible for the murder of a businessman. Unfortunately, the investigation is impeded by the FBI, who insist upon shielding the prime suspect. Without giving away the outcome, it can be noted Read More

Robocop: Prime Directives - Resurrection

Synopsis: Originally aired as a four-part miniseries on Canada's Space cable network, Robocop: Prime Directives picks up after the events of 1993's Robocop 3 and was released straight-to-video in the U.S. as four seperate features. Robocop: Prime Directives - Resurrection is the third volume in the series Read More

Somewhere in the City

Actors: Sandra Bernhard, Ornella Muti, Robert John Burke, Peter Stormare, Bai Ling

Synopsis: Iranian-born director Ramin Niami loosely adapted the Maxim Gorky play The Lower Depths for this ensemble character study set in modern-day New York City's Lower East Side. Sandra Bernhard stars as Betty, a remarkably introverted and lonely therapist hungering for a male companion. In her Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street - Abduction

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Peter Gerety, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Falsone (Jon Seda) is the primary investigator when a four-year-old boy is abducted from a merry-go-round right under his mother's nose. Before long, the precinct gets a call from a man claiming to be the kidnapper -- and another call from the publicity-conscious host of the crime-solving TV show Read More

Fled

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Salma Hayek, Will Patton

Synopsis: Though serving a prison sentence for using his computer to embezzle from an international corporation, Dodge (Stephen Baldwin) still thinks of himself as an ordinary criminal. His fellow convict, Piper (Lawrence Fishburne), whose basic decency leads him to protect Dodge from an assault by another Read More

Thinner

Actors: Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Michael Constantine, Lucinda Jenney, Kari Wuhrer

Synopsis: The plot of Thinner concerns massively overweight lawyer Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke), who is receiving an oral gift from his wife (Lucinda Jenney) while driving down the street one night, when he becomes so carried away that he runs over an old Gypsy woman (Irma St. Paule), killing her. Read More

If Lucy Fell

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Eric Schaeffer, Ben Stiller, Elle MacPherson, James Rebhorn

Synopsis: This vanity project from writer, director, and star Eric Schaeffer is a romantic comedy about a pair of New Yorkers with a suicide pact. Joe MacGonaughgill (Schaeffer) is a painter and teacher who has been spying for years on Jane (Elle Macpherson), the gorgeous woman who lives across the alley Read More

Law & Order: Act of God

Synopsis: The detectives spring into action when a 12-year-old is killed in a bombing at a renovation site. As usual, there is a plethora of suspects, but Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth) pay special attention to antagonistic contractor Arthur "Buzz" Palley (Robert John Burke). Either Palley is Read More

Killer: A Journal of Murder

Actors: James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono, Robert John Burke

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this psychological study concerns Henry Lesser (Robert Sean Leonard), a prison guard who witnesses the brutal beating of an inmate, Carl Panzram (James Woods), who attempted to escape. Lesser tries to befriend the convict, whom he senses has an intelligence that has gone Read More

Flirt

Actors: Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey, Dwight Ewell, Geno Lechner, Dominik Bender, Miho Nikaido

Synopsis: A lover, an ultimatum, a phone call, and a gun: these elements are found in each segment of Hal Hartley's Flirt, an experimental comedy-drama that essentially repeats the same story three times. But while the basic narrative remains the same -- a congenital flirt must decide whether or not to 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

Dust Devil

Actors: Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Zakes Mokae, John Matshikiza, Rufus Swart

Synopsis: In this stylish supernatural horror story, Hitch (Robert Burke), a mysterious loner, wanders the deserts of the African nation of Nambia as he searches for the lost and suicidal. Hitch is wanted by the police in connection with the death a woman whose blood was used in a strange magic ceremony. A Read More

A Far Off Place

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Jack Thompson, Sarel Bok, Maximilian Schell

Synopsis: The directorial debut of Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Mikael Salomon (The Abyss), A Far Off Place is based on a pair of books by novelist Laurens Van der Post. Reese Witherspoon stars as Nonnie Parker, a young girl living on an African game preserve with her parents. Ethan Embry is Read More

Heaven & Earth

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Hiep Thi Le, Debbie Reynolds

Synopsis: With Heaven and Earth -- cobbled together from two autobiographical reminiscences (When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip -- Oliver Stone completes his self-declared "Vietnam Trilogy" (the other films being Platoon and Born On the Fourth of July) of Read More

My Life's in Turnaround

Actors: Eric Schaeffer, Donal Lardner Ward, Lisa Gerstein

Synopsis: Eric Schaeffer and Donald Ward managed to scrape together 22,000 dollars to make this independent film about the making of an independent film. Schaeffer plays a New York City cabdriver (which he really was), while Ward co-stars as his roommate (which he really was). They have no money, no script Read More

Simple Men

Actors: Robert John Burke, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Löwensohn, Martin Donovan, Mark Chandler Bailey

Synopsis: A pair of brothers dodge the law while trying to locate their long-lost father in this third feature from independent New York filmmaker Hal Hartley. Robert John Burke stars as Bill McCabe, a failed computer thief who's just been doublecrossed by his girlfriend and partner. Vowing revenge on the Read More

Robocop 3

Actors: Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn, John Castle

Synopsis: In this second sequel to Robocop, the mechanical humanoid opposes the evil designs of his creators, who have gone corrupt and are trying to take over all real estate in Detroit, kicking the poorer citizens out of their homes and turning them out into the streets. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rambling Rose

Actors: Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, John Heard

Synopsis: Rambling Rose is the most part a flashback, related by grown-up Southerner Buddy Hillyer (John Heard). The bulk of the film takes place in 1935, when rambunctious backwoods housekeeper Rose (Laura Dern) virtually invades the Hillyer household. Daddy Hillyer (Robert Duvall), a bed-rock Southern Read More

Lambada

Actors: J. Eddie Peck, Melora Hardin, Shabba-Doo, Ricky Paull Goldin, Basil Hoffman

Synopsis: One of several films released to trade on the short-lived Lambada craze (it was an especially sexy Latin dance in case you don't remember), Lambada stars J. Eddie Peck as Kevin Laird, a mathematics teacher at an exclusive Beverly Hills high school who by night puts away his slide rule and Read More

The Unbelievable Truth

Actors: Adrienne Shelly, Robert John Burke, Chris Cooke, Julia McNeal, Gary Sauer

Synopsis: Writer-director Hal Hartley's first feature -- shot in less than 12 days in his backyard for a mere $200,000 -- is a dry and dark comedy about the dangerous undercurrents that exist below the surface of normal middle class existence. Over the credits, Josh (Robert Burke), a man garbed in black, is Read More

Pass the Ammo

Actors: Bill Paxton, Linda Kozlowski, Tim Curry, Annie Potts, Dennis Burkley

Synopsis: When Claire (Linda Kozlowski) learns her grandmother has been bilked out of $50,000 by the crooked televangelists Ray (Tim Curry) and Darla Porter (Annie Potts), she recruits her redneck boyfriend Jesse (Bill Paxton) to help recover the money. They travel to the Tower of Bethlehem deep in the Read More

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume, Mel Harris, William Russ

Synopsis: Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is a modern-day bounty hunter who goes after notorious terrorist Malak Al Rahim (Gene Simmons) in this action feature. Nick is called on after Malak disrupts Los Angeles with a series of fatal bombings. William Russ plays Nick's friend and retired LAPD lieutenant Danny Read More

Nightmare Weekend

Actors: Debbie Laster, Debra Hunter, Dale Midkiff, Lori Lewis

Synopsis: This confusing horror movie tells the terrible tale of three lovely adolescent girls whose dates are zombified by a crazed scientist and his equally looney assistant. Things get really messy when the new zombies attack the scientist's own daughter. Fortunately, she is smart and manages to stop Read More