Robert Wuhl Filmography

Born:: October 9, 1951 in Union Township, NJ
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Although he has a laid back Huck Finn demeanor, actor/writer/director Robert Wuhl is one of the hardest-working denizens of Tinseltown. He began as a comedy writer, functioning as story editor on the cult TV series Police Squad and winning Emmys for his work (in collaboration with Billy Crystal)...Read More

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Robert Wuhl: Assume the Position 201 With Mr. Wuhl

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Wuhl

2007
Robert Wuhl: Assume the Position With Mr. Wuhl

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Wuhl

Synopsis: Robet Wuhl: Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl features a combination stand-up routine/history lecture performed before a classroom of attentive college students. His goal is to expose the stories about America, and the stories America makes up about itself. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Arli$$: Season 07

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Sandra Oh, Jim Turner, Michael Boatman

2002
Arli$$: Moments to Remember

Crew: Director

2002
Arli$$: Season 06

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Sandra Oh, Jim Turner, Michael Boatman

2001
Arli$$: Setting Precedents

Crew: Director

2001
Arli$$: Season 05

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Sandra Oh, Jim Turner, Michael Boatman

2000
Arli$$: Season 04

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Sandra Oh, Jim Turner, Michael Boatman

1999
Arli$$: Cause and Effect

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1999
The Last Don II

Actors: Jason Gedrick, Patsy Kensit, Kirstie Alley, David Marciano, James Wilder

Synopsis: This four-hour miniseries is a sequel to 1997's top-rated miniseries, The Last Don,based on the novel by Mario Puzo of The Godfather fame, but several critics noted that The Last Don II is unintentionally funny. After Don Clericuzio (Danny Aiello, the pivotal figure in the first series) dies from Read More

1998
Arli$$: Season 03

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Sandra Oh, Jim Turner, Michael Boatman

1998
The Last Don

Actors: Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna, Daryl Hannah, Jason Gedrick, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: This crime drama, based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo, follows 20 years in the long reign of powerful Mafia kingpin Don Domenico Clericuzio (Danny Aiello). For years, the Clericuzios have been warring with a rival crime family, the Santadios, which is not helped when Domenico's daughter Read More

1997
Arli$$: Season 02

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Sandra Oh, Jim Turner, Michael Boatman

1997
Arli$$: The Family Trust

Crew: Director

1997
Arli$$: Season 01

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Sandra Oh, Jim Turner, Michael Boatman

1996
Arli$$ [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

1996
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde

Actors: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Lysette Anthony, Stephen Tobolowsky, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a man whose scientific meddling has unexpected results gets a cross-gender update in this comedy. Richard Jacks (Tim Daly) is a research scientist trying to work his way up the ladder at a major perfume company when he inherits the notebooks of his Read More

1995
Open Season

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Rod Taylor, Gailard Sartain, Helen Shaver, Maggie Han

Synopsis: Big business dealings, competition, and TV ratings wars are satirized in this biting comedy. Stuart Sain is an egotistical, over-ambitious Jewish executive. He works for Fielding, a company like Nielsen which uses small boxes to garner TV ratings statistics. Stuart is married to Cary, a Read More

1995
Blue Chips

Actors: Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, J.T. Walsh, Ed O'Neill, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: Blue Chips examines greed, cheating, and "winning at all costs" in the world of college basketball. Nick Nolte plays the stressed-out coach on the verge of his first losing season, who hits the road in search of new players not already signed by a bigger school. He finds three prospects: a Read More

1994
Cobb

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Wuhl, Lolita Davidovich, Lou Myers, Stephen Mendillo

Synopsis: What does a biographer do when the truth about his subject is far less pleasant than the legend? That is the moral dilemma at the heart of Cobb, which explores the lives of both baseball's premier hitter, Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones), and the sportswriter assigned to set his story down, Al Stump (Robert Wuhl Read More

1994
Percy and Thunder

Actors: James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Courtney Vance, Robert Wuhl, Zakes Mokae

Synopsis: An ex-championship boxer (James Earl Jones) sees a chance at recapturing a taste of his former glory after discovering that Thunder (Courtney B. Vance), one of the amateurs he trains, has real potential. Unfortunately, Thunder has entangled himself with crooked, gang-connected manager Ralph Tate (Billy Dee Williams Read More

1993
The Bodyguard

Actors: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp, Bill Cobbs, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan originally wrote his script for The Bodyguard in the late 1960s as a vehicle for Steve McQueen; by the time it reached the screen, Kasdan's star was another movie hearthrob, Kevin Costner. When imperious musical superstar Whitney Houston begins receiving death threats, she is Read More

11/25/92
Mistress

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Martin Landau, Robert De Niro, Danny Aiello, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Successful character actor Barry Primus spent seven years trying to get financing for his feature debut as a writer-director, Mistress. In the film, a once-promising writer-director, Marvin Landisman (Robert Wuhl), who now directs instructional videos, is sitting home one night, watching his own Read More

8/7/92
Missing Pieces

Actors: Eric Idle, Robert Wuhl, Lauren Hutton, Richard Belzer, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: In this comedy thriller two dopey pals try to solve a puzzling riddle. If they succeed, one of them will inherit a valuable artifact, an object desired by a number of suspicious characters willing to do just about anything to obtain it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Wedding Band

Actors: William Katt, Joyce Hyser, Tino Insana, Lance Kinsey, David Bowe

Synopsis: In this comedy, the members of the Shakers, an aspiring rock band, perform at a series of weird and wacky weddings. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

3/2/90
Blaze

Actors: Jack David Harris, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: Blaze is a comic-strip re-telling of the curious late-1950s relationship between famed striptease artist Blaze Starr (Lolita Davidovitch) and Lousiana governor Earl Long (played in gorgeously flamboyant fashion by Paul Newman). Their romance is counterbalanced with the story of Long's efforts to Read More

12/13/89
Batman

Actors: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who turned to crimefighting after his parents were brutally murdered before his eyes. The only person to share Wayne's secret is faithful butler Alfred (Michael Gough). The Read More

6/23/89
Tales From the Crypt: Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone

Synopsis: Richard Donner's "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone" is about a man with nine lives, who runs through each life without care -- in fact, he forgets how many lives he has left. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Bull Durham

Actors: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl

Synopsis: A blend of comedy, drama and romance, Bull Durham follows the intertwining of three lives brought together by the great American pastime. Crash Davis (Kevin Costner, showcasing his Midwestern charm) is a perennial Minor Leaguer assigned to the Durham Bulls, a hapless team with a long tradition of Read More

6/15/88
Good Morning, Vietnam

Actors: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: The film begins in 1965, when disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) is assigned to take over the AFR's Saigon radio broadcasts. In contrast to the dull, by-rote announcers that have preceded him, Cronauer is a bundle of dynamite, heralding each broadcast with a loud "Goooooood morning Read More

12/23/87
Moonlighting: Blonde on Blonde

Synopsis: In the first episode of a four-part story arc, detective David Addison (Bruce Willis) briefly curbs his flippancy to find out why his partner Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) is so unhappy of late. Following Maddie around town, David ends up trailing the wrong woman--and "wrong" hardly begins to Read More

1987
Flashdance

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson, Kyle Heffner

Synopsis: Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala Read More

1983
The Hollywood Knights

Actors: Fran Drescher, Leigh French, Randy Gornel, Gary Graham, Sandy Helberg, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Wuhl, Tony Danza

Synopsis: Fran Drescher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tony Danza are the most notable aspects of this forgettable teen drama that features a gang of youths in a car club who decide to battle it out with the establishment in Beverly Hills. It seems their favorite haunt, the last drive-in restaurant in the Read More

1980