Robert Tapert Filmography

Boogeyman 2

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Danielle Savre, David Gallagher, Michael Graziadei, Mae Whitman, Tobin Bell

Synopsis: A young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health facility, only to realize too little too late that she is now helplessly trapped with her own greatest fear. Editor-turned-director Jeff Betancourt takes the helm for this Ghost House Pictures Read More

Incident at Sans Asylum

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A group of aspiring musicians working as cooks at an institute for the criminally insane must fight for their lives when a violent thunderstorm traps them in the asylum with some of the most disturbed and deranged criminals ever committed. Spanish director Daniel Calparsoro helms a screenplay Read More

The Grudge 3

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The ghosts of the Grudge come back in this third outing from Ghost House Pictures, who rev up the production with Toby Wilkins helming. Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert produce the film, which will once again focus on the deadly guttural-voiced specters that have survived both a film series in America Read More

30 Days of Night

Crew: Producer

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone, Jr.

Synopsis: Hard Candy director David Slade took the helm for this adaptation of Steve Niles' terrifying comic-book series of the same name. In Barrow, AK, one night can last an eternity. One month every year, this town is plunged into darkness for 30 days due to its location far north of the Arctic Circle. Read More

Rise: Blood Hunter

Crew: Co-producer, Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino, James D'Arcy, Samaire Armstrong

Synopsis: A woman who joins the undead against her will seeks vengeance against the ghouls who transformed her in this thriller. Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) is a journalist who becomes acquainted with a group of beautiful but doomstruck partiers while following a story, led by the charismatic Bishop (James Read More

The Messengers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Evan Turner

Synopsis: Hong Kong horror specialists Danny and Oxide Pang (The Eye, Bangkok Haunted) ponder the paranormal sensitivities of young innocents in this tale of an unsuspecting family who falls prey to a malevolent entity after moving to into a haunted sunflower farm. Roy (Dylan McDermott) and Denise Solomon (Penelope Ann Miller Read More

The Grudge 2

Crew: Producer

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Arielle Kebbel, Jennifer Beals, Edison Chen, Sarah Roemer

Synopsis: Japanese horror specialist Takashi Shimizu returns to the mythology that terrified audiences the world over with this terror-inducing sequel to the hit 2004 frightener. When a cursed Tokyo home is burned to the ground, the baneful spirit once confined within its walls is suddenly unleased to Read More

Boogeyman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barry Watson, Emily Deschanel, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Tory Mussett, Andrew Glover, Lucy Lawless

Synopsis: A man learns his past was more truth than imagination in this horror story. Tim (Barry Watson) is a man who is still haunted by traumatic memories of his past, many linked to the death of his father. Desperate to resolve his issues, Tim returns to his old hometown so he can pay a visit to the Read More

The Grudge

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, William Mapother, Clea Duvall, KaDee Strickland, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: This American remake of director Takashi Shimizu's popular Japanese movie franchise The Grudge puts Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar back into the line of supernatural fire. When Karen (Gellar), an American student working with a Japanese health center for college credit Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Friend in Need, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Marton Csokas, Michelle Ang, Mac Jeffrey Ong

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, Xena (Lucy Lawless) has agreed to the terms of battle set down by evil samurai ghost Yodoshi. In other words, she allows herself to be killed so that she can fight Yodoshi over the souls of some 40,000 murdered Japanese. The grieving Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Friend in Need, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Marton Csokas, Michelle Ang, Mac Jeffrey Ong

Synopsis: In the first episode of Xena: Warrior Princess' two-part finale, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) are summoned to Japan, there to save the city of Higushi. Upon arrival, the ladies find the city in the clutches of a group of savage samurai, headed by evil samurai ghost Yodoshi (Adrian Brown Read More

The Gift

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank

Synopsis: Supernatural horror meets character drama in this Sam Raimi-directed thriller. Set in Georgia, the film concerns a widowed mother named Annie (Cate Blanchett) who is blessed with the ability to have psychic visions. When Annie is asked to use her powers to investigate the murder of a rich society Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Motherhood

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Alexandra Tydings

Synopsis: Xena (Lucy Lawless) squares off against the Olympian gods in a battle to the death, with the survival of both sides in the balance. At the same time, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) swears to avenge the death of Joxer (Ted Raimi) at the hands of Xena's daughter, Eve, and never mind that Eve has cast Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Who's Gurkhan?

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, William Gregory Lee, Adrienne Wilkinson, Willa O'Neill

Synopsis: Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) heads off to the North African land of Poteidaia, there to rescue her kidnapped niece, Sarah (Tandie Wright), from the warlord Gurkhan (Calvin Tuteao). Unfortunately, Gurkhan is something of an archaic Saddam Hussein: Not only has he managed to elude everyone who's ever Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Adrienne Wilkinson, William Gregory Lee

Synopsis: Picking up where season five of Xena: Warrior Princess left off, season six begins with Xena (Lucy Lawless) handily defeating the combined forces of the Olympian Gods, who had hoped to forestall their prophesied demise by killing both Xena and her reformed warrior-princess daughter, Eve (Adrienne Wilkinson Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Lifeblood

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Selma Blair, Monica McSwain, Danielle Cormack

Synopsis: At the suggestion of Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), baby Eve is slated to undergo the Right of Caste. This bizarre and potentially painful ritual will determine if Eve is worthy of becoming an Amazon princess. Meanwhile, Eve's mother, Xena (Lucy Lawless), is kept busy trying to save the Amazon Read More

Cleopatra 2525 [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gina Torres, Victoria Pratt, Jennifer Sky, Patrick Kake

Synopsis: Evil robots, gratuitous explosions, and babes in silver lame bikinis. Set in 2525 after robots called Bailles have forced Earth's human population to retreat underground, a duo of nubile warriors fight their mechanical oppressors. Sarge (Victoria Pratt) and Hel (Gina Torres), who can communicate Read More

Jack of All Trades

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Stuart Devenie

Synopsis: Bruce Campbell starts in this cheeky show about Jack Stiles, a secret agent for the Jefferson administration. One part James West and one part Austin Powers, Jack is assigned to go to the East Indies to keep an eye on Napoleon's movements. Initially disappointed at the dullness of the job, Jack's Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Paradise Found

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Jeremy Roberts, Mervyn Smith

Synopsis: In the first of several Xena episodes set in India, Xena (Lucy Lawless) and Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) are forced to seek shelter from bad weather in a mountain cave. Here they meet the mysterious mystic Aidan (Jeremy Roberts), who teaches the pliable Gabrielle the art of serene meditation. Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Fallen Angel

Crew: Teleplay By

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, David de Latour, Jennifer Sky, Hudson Leick

Synopsis: Season five of Xena: Warrior Princess begins on a bleak note, inasmuch as both the titular Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her traveling companion, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), had been crucified by the Romans at the end of season four -- thereby fulfilling the prophecy of the evil shamaness Alti. As Xena Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Adrienne Wilkinson, William Gregory Lee

Synopsis: It sure looked like curtains for Xena: Warrior Princess at the end of the series' fourth season, what with both Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her traveling companion, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), being crucified by the Romans, the fulfillment of a prophecy by the evil shamaness Alti (Claire Stansfield). Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 06

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: For all intents and purposes, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys had run its course by the end of season five. Even so, the producers wanted to generate a larger syndication package, thus the program was renewed for a sixth season -- consisting of a whole eight episodes. With Hercules' traveling Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Back in the Bottle

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Marie Matiko

Synopsis: Still in the faraway land of Chin, Xena (Lucy Lawless) struggles to master the beneficial powers of her late spiritual mentor, Lao Ma. Meanwhile, the despotic warlord Khan and his 100,000 warriors prepare to conquer the land. In her efforts to stop Khan, Xena finds out that her enemy has an unfair Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Adventures in the Sin Trade, Part 1

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Vicky Pratt, Erik Thomson, Claire Stansfield

Synopsis: In part one of Xena: Warrior Princess' fourth-season opener, Gabrielle is dead, having sacrificed herself at the altar of Dahak to thwart the villainy of her evil daughter, Hope. The grieving Xena (Lucy Lawless) searches for Gabrielle in the Underworld, but Hades (Erik Thomson) insists that she Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Locked Up and Tied Down

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Katrina Browne, William Kircher, Tanea Heke

Synopsis: Solemnly declaring "there's no defense for what I did," Xena (Lucy Lawless) assumes full responsibility for the death of a young woman and allows herself to be arrested. Tried and convicted of murder, she is shipped off to the hellish Shark Island Prison. Meanwhile, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: While there had been a loosely-basted continuity during the previous five seasons of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys -- held together by the never-ending efforts of half-god, half-human Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and his mortal friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst) to right wrongs and champion noble causes Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Fins, Femmes and Gems

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Alexandra Tydings, Lawrence Makoare

Synopsis: Xena (Lucy Lawless), Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), and Joxer (Ted Raimi) set out to recover the mystic diamond that provides illumination for the North Star. To prevent this from happening, Aphrodite (Alexandra Tydings), currently and illegally in possession of the diamond, casts a series of Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Season three of Xena: Warrior Princess ended on a tragic note, with Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), friend and chronicler of reformed warrior Xena (Lucy Lawless), sacrificing her life so that her daughter, Hope -- the incarnation of pure evil -- would not be resurrected. Given the series' mythological Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Forget Me Not

Crew: Director

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Kevin Smith, Jan Hellriegel

Synopsis: Melancholy Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) tries to get over the death of her daughter, Hope, among other recent traumatic experiences, by telepathically visiting the temple of Mnesoyne, Goddess of Memory. As Joxer (Ted Raimi) stands guard over Gabrielle's body, Gabrielle's mind embarks upon a journey Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Season four of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys adheres to the basic premise of the previous three seasons: Half-god, half-human Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) continues to spread good will and good deeds throughout the known world, accompanied by his mortal friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst), aided and Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Destiny

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ebonie Smith, Karl Urban, Nathaniel Lees

Synopsis: Hoping to purge some more of her inner demons, Xena (Lucy Lawless) visits the site of a city burned down by her former warriors. Before long, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor) is captured by cannibals and Xena is seriously wounded while rescuing her friend. The only hope for Xena's survival is the Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The Xena Scrolls

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: This episode is set in Macedonia in the year A.D. 1942. Archeologist Janice Covington (Renee O'Connor), who bears a startling resemblance to our old, old friend Gabrielle, is searching for the legendary Xena Scrolls, a fragment of which was unearthed by her father years earlier. Several other Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Season three of Xena: Warrior Princess was the series' most eventful 22 episodes to date -- as well as the most mobile, with Xena (Lucy Lawless) and her friend and chronicler, Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), traveling far and wide, from the British Isles to the far-off Orient. It is, in fact, during Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The Debt, Part 2

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Kevin Smith, Jacqueline Kim, Marton Csokas

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Xena (Lucy Lawless) has journeyed to the land of Chin to fulfill her promise to kill the Green Dragon. Alas, she is thwarted in this mission by Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), who cannot bring herself to condone murder under any circumstances. As a result of Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - The Debt, Part 1

Crew: Director, Teleplay By

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Jacqueline Kim, Marton Csokas, Grant McFarland

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Xena (Lucy Lawless) is summoned to the oriental land of Chin, there to finish her task of killing the Green Dragon, who has "become too big and must be made small again." First however, she must find some way of justifying an impending murder to Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Once a Hero

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Jeffrey Thomas, Peter Feeney, Edward Campbell

Synopsis: Attending a reunion of Jason's Argonauts in Corinth, Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and Iolaus (Michael Hurst) discover, to their dismay, that the once mighty King Jason (Jeffrey Thomas), devastated by the bloody unpleasantness involving his bride Medea and their children, has become a dissolute drunkard. Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Legendary half-human, half-god Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) continues his journeys throughout Greece and the known world to spread goodness and charity and defend the downtrodden as the character's weekly TV series enters its third season. Likewise, still on hand is Hercules' mortal friend and traveling Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi

Synopsis: Season two of Xena: Warrior Princess is noteworthy for several reasons, though two of these stand out above all the rest. The first was the promotion to full "regular" status of the series' principal comedy-relief character, a bumbling wannabe warrior named Joxer (Ted Raimi), who had previously Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Season one of the weekly syndicated series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys picks up the action where the fifth of the Hercules TV movies, 1994's Hercules in the Maze of the Monsters, left off. Olympian goddess Hera is determined to wreak vengeance upon her husband, Zeus, king of the gods, for the Read More

American Gothic [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gary Cole, Paige Turco, Jake Weber, Brenda Bakke, Sarah Paulson, Lucas Black, Nick Searcy

Synopsis: One of the earliest forays into TV production by former teen idol Shaun Cassidy, the weekly, hour-long supernatural drama series American Gothic debuted September 22, 1995 on CBS. Things weren't quite right in the outwardly peaceful and respectable town of Trinity in Fulton County, South Carolina. Read More

The Quick and the Dead

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Roberts Blossom, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell

Synopsis: Director Sam Raimi brings his trademark comic book-influenced visual panache to this post-modern Western. Sharon Stone stars as Ellen, a mysterious female gunslinger who arrives in the frontier hamlet of Redemption for a contest pitting quick-draw artists against each other. The event is the Read More

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst

Synopsis: Season two of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys finds the titular half-human, half-god Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) and his mortal friend Iolaus (Michael Hurst) persisting in their efforts to spread peace, kindness, and goodwill throughout Greece and the known world, despite the formidable opposition of Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor

Synopsis: It had already been established before the first season of Xena: Warrior Princess got under way that the titular Xena (Lucy Lawless) had forsworn her former evil and despotic ways, and was determined to make amends for her past by helping innocents in distress. One of those "innocents" made her Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess - Sins of the Past

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Jay Lagai'aia, Daren Takle, Stephen Hall

Synopsis: In the debut episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, the title character, played by Lucy Lawless, has forsaken her former evil ways and has committed herself to burying the past and protecting the innocent. The first task for the "reformed" Xena is to rescue a group of village girls from the minions of Read More

Xena: Warrior Princess [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Ted Raimi, Kevin Smith, Hudson Leick

Synopsis: Created by John Schulian and Robert Tapert, the New Zealand-filmed Xena: Warrior Princess was a spin-off of the tongue-in-cheek "sword and sorcery" series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. As introduced on Hercules, Xena (Lucy Lawless) was a fierce and formidable villainess, the leader of a vast Read More

Hercules and the Circle of Fire

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Tawny Kitaen, Kevin Atkinson, Chris Brougham

Synopsis: In the third of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary superhero Hercules, the Earth is in danger of turning into a block of ice unless the fires of the world can be rekindled. This calamitous situation is the handiwork of Hercules' treacherous stepmother Hera, in whose immortal Read More

Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Tawny Kitaen, Michael Hurst, Ray Anthony Parker

Synopsis: In the last of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary superhero Hercules, the title character has settled down in a peaceful existence as a farmer with his beloved mortal family. Though Hercules tries hard to teach his children nonviolence, his mighty strength must come back Read More

Timecop

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Based on a comic book story, this futuristic film follows the time-travel exploits of policeman Max Walker (Claude Van Damme). In 1994, Walker's wife Melissa (Mia Sara) is about to tell him that she is expecting their first child when they are attacked by a group of criminals. Walker is shot and Read More

Hercules and the Lost Kingdom

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Anthony Quinn, Renee O'Connor, Robert Trebor, Eric Close

Synopsis: The second of five made-for-TV movies starring Kevin Sorbo as legendary muscleman Hercules, this one pits the title character against his most fearsome enemy--his own immortal stepmother, Hera. Using a number of disguises, the villainess does her best (or worst) to thwart Hercules in his search Read More

Darkman 2: The Return of Durant

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Arnold Vosloo, Larry Drake, Renee O'Connor, Kim Delaney, Rod Wilson

Synopsis: Darkman is up to his old tricks. He's robbing from the criminals and keeping for himself so he can further perfect his synthetic skin which dissolves after 99 minutes in the light. His old arch-nemesis, Robert Durrant (Larry Drake) returns, having survived the helicopter crash in the first film. Read More

Hard Target

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo, Yancy Butler, Kasi Lemmons

Synopsis: John Woo's first Hollywood feature stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Chance Boudreaux, a down-and-out Cajun merchant seaman, who, after saving a young woman, Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler), from a gang of thugs on the streets of New Orleans, agrees to help her search for her father (Chuck Pfarrer), a Read More

Army of Darkness

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Grove

Synopsis: The third in director Sam Raimi's stylish, comic book-like horror trilogy that began with The Evil Dead (1982), this tongue-in-cheek sequel offers equal parts sword-and-sorcery-style action, gore, and comedy. Bruce Campbell returns as the one-armed Ash, now a supermarket employee ("Shop Read More

Lunatics: A Love Story

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Deborah Foreman, Theodore Raimi, Bruce Campbell, George Aguilar, Brian McCree

Synopsis: Evil Dead director Sam Raimi produced this bizarre romance, starring his brother Theodore as Hank, a paranoid shut-in who lines the walls of his Los Angeles apartment with tin foil for protection. After an accidental phone conversation with a seemingly sweet-natured Iowa farm girl named Nancy (Deborah Foreman Read More

Darkman

Crew: Producer

Actors: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake,