Scott BakulaFilmography

Born:: St. Louis, MO
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Best known for portraying time traveler Dr. Sam Beckett in the popular sci-fi series Quantum Leap, Scott Bakula is also a noted Broadway actor and occasional movie star, though it is in the last venue that he has had the least amount of success. The son of a musician, Bakula is said to have...Read More

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The Informant!

Actors: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Rick Overton

Synopsis: A rising star in the agricultural industry suddenly turns whistleblower in hopes of gaining a lucrative promotion and becoming a hero of the common people, inadvertently revealing his penchant for helping himself to the corporate coffers and ultimately threatening to derail the very investigation Read More

9/18/09
Tracey Ullman's State of the Union: Season 01

Actors: Tracey Ullman, Scott Bakula, Peter Strauss

2008
Blue Smoke

Actors: Alicia Witt, Matthew Settle, Scott Bakula

Synopsis: Years after her family's pizza parlor was burned to the ground by an out of control arsonist, a girl does her best to overcome her childhood trauma by becoming a seasoned arson investigator in this thriller starring Scott Bakula and Alicia Witt. But some careers are more dangerous than others, and Read More

2007
Star Trek: Enterprise: Season 04

Actors: Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery

Synopsis: Industry rumors were flying in 2004 that the fourth season of Star Trek: Enterprise would be its last. Whether true or not, the cast and production crew proceeded with such enthusiasm and confidence that one would think the series had been renewed for the next ten years! The time frame is still Read More

2004
Star Trek: Enterprise: Season 03

Actors: Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery

Synopsis: The Enterprise NX-01, Earth's first Warp Five spaceship, has been in service for a mere two years (2151-2153) as Star Trek: Enterprise enters its third season. Despite this relatively brief time frame, Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and his loyal multicultural, intergalactic crew Read More

2003
Star Trek: Enterprise: Season 02

Actors: Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery

Synopsis: Season two of Star Trek: Enterprise finds the titular Warp Five starship from Earth, and its multicultural and intergalactic crew, still intact despite numerous clashes with genetically manipulative Sulibans in the deep space Temporal Cold. But new and even more daunting challenges await the Read More

2002
The Trial of Old Drum

Actors: Bobby Edner, Scott Bakula

Synopsis: In the 1950s, a young boy, Charlie Burden Jr. (Bobby Edner), and his Golden Retriever known as Drum, share adventures in their rural town, many of which require the dog to save the boy's life: they have a boating accident and the dog pulls him from the lake; they encounter a pack of wild dogs and Read More

2001
What Girls Learn

Actors: Scott Bakula, Elizabeth Perkins, Alison Pill

Synopsis: Two young girls find themselves growing up fast when love and tragedy visit their mother in this made-for-cable drama based on the novel by Karin Cook. Elizabeth (Tamara Hope) and Tilden (Alison Pill) are sisters growing up in Atlanta, GA, with their single mother (Elizabeth Perkins). Elizabeth Read More

2001
A Girl Thing

Actors: Stockard Channing, Elle MacPherson, Kate Capshaw

Synopsis: Stockard Channing stars in this made-for-cable comedy-drama as Dr. Beth Noonan, a female psychiatrist trying to hold her life together as she guides four of her patients through personal turmoil. Lauren Travis (Elle MacPherson), a respected lawyer, finds her sexual identity thrown into question Read More

2001
Star Trek: Enterprise: Season 01

Actors: Scott Bakula, Jolene Blalock, John Billingsley, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery

Synopsis: The first season of Star Trek: Enterprise may have begun in the year 2001, but it's 2151 A.D. so far as the stars (and the fans) are concerned. Now that the Vulcans have (none too enthusiastically) been persuaded to provide humans with star charts that will permit them to travel through deep Read More

2001
Role of a Lifetime

Actors: Scott Bakula, Kathryn Morris, Anthony Alda, Maria Ford

Synopsis: An actor long thought to be dead re-emerges under another identity, just as a filmmaker prepares to start shooting his life story. Scott Bakula, Kathryn Morris, and director Anthony Alda -- Alan Alda's brother -- star. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

2001
Luminarias

Actors: Evelina Fernandez, Scott Bakula, Marta Du Bois, Angela Moya, Dyana Ortelli

Synopsis: Billed as a Latina Waiting to Exhale, this film details the life and loves of four Hispanic women: Sofia, a therapist; Andrea, a divorced lawyer; Irene, a flashy clothes designer; and Lilly, an artist. The women gather every week at the nightspot Luminarias to discuss jobs, family, love, and sex. Read More

5/5/00
Papa's Angels

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The lingering illness and death of his beloved wife has left young Appalachian farmer Grins Jenkins (Scott Bakula) a melancholy shell of his ebullient former self. As Christmas approaches, Jenkins can find no discernable reason for going on with his own life. But Grins' four spunky and resourceful Read More

2000
In the Name of the People

Actors: Amy Madigan, Richard Thomas, Scott Bakula, Kimberly Warnat, Robin Ann Phipps

Synopsis: Based on a play by Tim Boland, the made-for-TV drama In the Name of the People stars Scott Bakula as death-row inmate John Burke. Facing execution for the murder of a teenaged girl, Burke's only concern is over the future of his own 13-year-old daughter Lisa (Robin Ann Phipps). Connie Murphy (Amy Madigan Read More

2000
Above Suspicion

Actors: Scott Bakula, Annabella Sciorra, George Dzundza, Ed Asner

Synopsis: One man lives two very different lives in this suspense thriller. Lisa (Annabella Sciorra) is a computer science instructor who is happily married to James Stockton (Scott Bakula), a businessman who has enjoyed considerable success as a land developer. Lisa and James are the proud parents of a Read More

2000
American Beauty

Actors: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper

Synopsis: Noted theater director Sam Mendes, who was responsible for the acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret and Nicole Kidman's turn in The Blue Room, made his motion picture debut with this film about the dark side of an American family, and about the nature and price of beauty in a culture obsessed with Read More

9/15/99
Mean Streak

Actors: Scott Bakula, Leon

Synopsis: Scott Bakula and Leon star in this mystery thriller. An African-American baseball player is having a hot season and threatens to break Joe DiMaggio's batting record. However, one baseball fan isn't so thrilled -- a psychotic racist who has been murdering young black boys and sending their severed Read More

1999
Netforce

Actors: Scott Bakula, Joanna Going, Xander Berkeley, Brian Dennehy, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Best-selling author Tom Clancy was executive producer of this made-for-TV spy thriller, which debuted on ABC in 1999. In the year 2005, the FBI has established a special division --"Netforce" -- to investigate crimes committed using the Internet. Agents Alex Michaels (Scott Bakula) and Steve Day (Kris Kristofferson Read More

1999
Major League: Back To The Minors

Actors: Scott Bakula, Corbin Bernsen, Dennis Haysbert, Takaaki Ishibashi, Jensen Daggett

Synopsis: This sports comedy is the third inning for the "Major League" series after Major League (1989) grossed $50 million and Major League II delivered a batting average of $30 million in 1994. After Roger Dorn (Corbin Bernsen), who owns the Minnesota Twins and the minor-league South Carolina Buzz, talks Read More

1998
Cats Don't Dance

Actors: Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Natalie Cole, Ashley Peldon, Lindsay Rideway, John Rhys-Davies

Synopsis: This animated comedy for the family, which gently parodies the movie musicals of the '30s and '40s, follows Danny (voice of Scott Bakula), a cat from Kokomo, Indiana, who loves to sing and dance and longs to be in show business. One day, Danny decides to do something about his ambitions instead of Read More

1997
Murphy Brown: Old Flames

Synopsis: Peter Hunt (Scott Bakula) drops by unexpectedly while Murphy is laboring throughout the night to finish her latest story. After a brief but chaste encounter with her former lover, an exhausted Murphy falls fast asleep--and dreams that she is standing trial for her "relationship sins" Read More

1996
The Bachelor's Baby

Actors: Scott Bakula, Chelsea Field, Dan Lauria

Synopsis: A fun-loving bachelor (with every intention of staying unmarried) suddenly finds himself saddled with a big responsibility after a former flame saddles him with a baby that she claims is his. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Murphy Brown: Make Room for Daddy

Synopsis: As the Big Day approaches, Murphy (Scott Bakula) and Peter (Scott Bakula) continue postponing their wedding plans--each telling the other that it's because of professional pressures (a story that neither party truly believes). Things come to head when Frank (Joe Regalbuto) throws a bachelor party Read More

1995
My Family

Actors: Elpidia Carrillo, Jenny Gago, Esai Morales, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Jimmy Smits, Jacob Vargas, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Featuring Jennifer Lopez in her first major big-screen role, Gregory Nava's My Family traces three generations of the Sanchez's, a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. Beginning in the 1930s, the film outlines the struggles faced by Jose (Jacob Vargas) and Maria (Lopez) as a Read More

1995
Murphy Brown: Rumble in the Alley

Synopsis: Murphy (Candice Bergen) and Peter (Scott Bakula) set up a blind date for Frank (Joe Regalbuto), then go out as a foursome to a bowling marathon. Though Frank and his date Linda (Leann Hunley) get along reasonably well, the evening serves primarily to reveal how much Murphy and Frank don't know Read More

1995
Murphy Brown: FYI of the Hurricane

Synopsis: While covering a hurricane in Florida, Murphy (Candice Bergen) begins getting a few "warning signs" healthwise. Before long, our heroine is convinced that she is pregnant again. As the inclement weather bears down and the story takes a few unexpected twists and turns, Peter (Scott Bakula) asks Read More

1995
Lord of Illusions

Actors: Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O'Connor, Famke Janssen, Vincent Schiavelli, Barry Del Sherman

Synopsis: A private investigator hired to protect a popular stage magician finds himself drawn into a dark, occult underworld in this supernatural horror film from writer-director Clive Barker. With several nods to film noir tradition, the danger begins for detective Harry D'Amour (Scott Bakula) when he is Read More

1995
World of Hockey: Ice & Asphalt

Synopsis: If they are not already fans, those who watch this video are likely to discover why hockey is now almost as popular in many American communities as it is in Canada. Listen as National Hockey League All-Star Luc Robitaille describes the general physical training, ice skating and stick-handling Read More

1995
Murphy Brown: It's Just Like Riding a Bike

Synopsis: Peter Hunt (Scott Bakula) is back, and Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) has got him--for a date. Naturally, Peter anticipates a revival of his torrid romance with Murphy. And naturally, Murphy anticipates Peter's anticipation--but for some reason, she insists upon delaying the Big Moment. This Read More

1994
Murphy Brown: The Thrill of the Hunt

Synopsis: Returning from Bosnia with a few rather exotic injuries, Peter (Scott Bakula) may or may not renew his contract with "FYI." Though she won't admit it, Murphy (Candice Brown) missed Peter during his absence, and it is she who persuades him to rejoin the "FYI" team. Before long--and against both Read More

1994
Murphy Brown: Humboldt IV: Judgment Day

Synopsis: Jim (Charles Kimbrough) suggest that the members of the "FYI" staff serve on the judging board for this year's Humboldt Awards. Murphy (Candice Bergen) is assigned to a relatively easy category, finishes her job in record time, and heads off to a music festival with Peter (Scott Bakula)--only to Read More

1994
Murphy Brown: Reporters Make Strange Bedfellows

Synopsis: When Murphy's "hot" story is shelved, she decides to take a weekend trip to the Caymans with Peter (Scott Bakula). No sooner have they arrived than Murphy (Candice Bergen) receives word that her story is going to be telecast as scheduled. Any dreams of romance between the vacationing couple are Read More

1994
Murphy Brown: Prelude to a Kiss

Synopsis: Newly unattached, Corky (Faith Ford) jumps at the opportunity when Miles (Grant Shaud) invites her out to dinner. Though he doesn't regard this as a date, she definitely does. She also considers the invitation as the stepping-stone to a full-scale romance, but the nervous Miles is resistant to Read More

1994
A Passion to Kill

Actors: Scott Bakula, Chelsea Field, Sheila Kelley, John Getz, Rex Smith

Synopsis: Scott Bakula inagurates an illicit romance with the very married Chelsea Field. When Field's husband turns up murdered, Bakula can't help but feel that his bedmate is responsible. Should he act upon his suspicions, or just live for the moment? Here's an added wrinkle: Bakula is a psychiatrist. Read More

1994
Color of Night

Actors: Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bakula

Synopsis: When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa (Bruce Willis, in an uncharacteristically un-smirking performance) visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into (literally) Rosa (Jane March) and begins a torrid Read More

1994
Nowhere to Hide

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Scott Bakula, Max Pomeranc, Clifton Powell, Robert Wisden

Synopsis: In this thriller, an assassin's threats cause a single mother, her son, and the G-man assigned to protect them to embark upon a desperate cross-country flight. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Murphy Brown: The Young & the Rest of Us

Synopsis: Corky (Faith Ford) is depressed over the prospect of turning 30, and never mind that she's still the "kid" of the "FYI" staff. To alleviate her distress, dashing Peter Hunt (Scott Bakula) comes up with a surefire cure for the over-30 blues. As it turns out, this cure involves a great deal of Read More

1993
Murphy Brown: Political Correctness

Synopsis: Remember way back when "Political Correctness" was merely a source of humor and not the official doctrine of the United States? In this episode, both Murphy (Candice Bergen) and Peter (Scott Bakula) get into trouble for making on-the-air comments that are labeled "insensitive" by certain Read More

1993
Murphy Brown: The More Things Change

Synopsis: Murphy Brown launches its sixth season with the introduction of a new recurring character, handsome globetrotting journalist Peter Hunt (played by former Quantum Leap star Scott Bakula). While the rest of the "FYI" staff bristles over Peter's arrogance, Murphy (Candice Bergen) barely acknowledges Read More

1993
Murphy Brown: Ticket to Writhe

Synopsis: With semi-regular Jane Leeves leaving Murphy Brown to costar on Frasier, something had to be done to resolve the romance between Leeves' character Audrey Cohen and "FYI" producer Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud). Not surprisingly, the resolution is guaranteed to heap a maximum of humiliation upon Read More

1993
Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771

Actors: Robert Loggia, Scott Bakula, Rebecca Rigg, Alan Fletcher, Michael Bishop

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a medium sized plane en route from the U.S. to New Zealand gets hopelessly lost over the vast Pacific after his companion plane crashes. Now his only hope for salvation is the small commercial jet liner with whom the lost pilot is in radio contact. As his plane runs out Read More

1993
Quantum Leap: Season 05

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Quantum Leap gets under way with the controversial two-part episode in which time traveler Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps into the body of Lee Harvey Oswald, thereby inaugurating a tortuous odyssey leading right up to the tragic events of November 22, 1963. Somehow Read More

1993
Murphy Brown: Bah Humboldt

Synopsis: It's time again for the prestigious Humboldt Awards, and among this year's nominees are "FYI" colleagues Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen), Frank Fontana (Joe Regalbuto) and Peter Hunt (Scott Bakula). Typically, each one reacts differently to his or her nomination: Murphy is anxious to add another Read More

1993
Quantum Leap: Season 04

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Reluctant time traveler Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) continues "leaping" in and out of other people's bodies, for purposes apparently known only to his holographic advisor-observer, Al (Dean Stockwell), in season four of Quantum Leap. The season opener, "The Leap Back: June 15, 1945," offers the Read More

1992
In the Shadow of a Killer

Synopsis: When a decorated New York City policeman voiced his opposition to an accused cop killer's death sentence, his co-workers ostracized him in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Necessary Roughness

Actors: Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak, Larry Miller

Synopsis: After a recruitment scandal, a struggling college football team is forced to turn to a rag-tag group of misfits in this sports comedy. It seems that Texas State University's football team has relied on some rather unorthodox -- and illegal -- methods to gain players, resulting in the Read More

9/27/91
L.A. Story

Actors: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis: Steve Martin wrote and stars in this look at the promise and dreamtime of Los Angeles culture. Martin stars as Harris K. Telemacher, a light-hearted television weatherman who does wacky comedy in lieu of reports since, being in L.A., he has very little weather to report. He spends his time Read More

2/8/91
Quantum Leap: Season 03

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: The third-season opener of Quantum Leap finds time-traveling Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) "leaping" into the body of his own teenaged self, the better to avert the many tragedies that will befall his family in years to come. In later episodes, Sam again assumes the shape of a woman -- twice, in Read More

1991
Quantum Leap: What Price Gloria?

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1991
Sibling Rivalry

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher, Jami Gertz, Scott Bakula

Synopsis: Carl Reiner directed this situation comedy about a neglected wife who, in frustration, has her first affair, with humiliating consequences. Kirstie Alley plays Marjorie, the ignored housewife of Harry Turner (Scott Bakula), an obnoxious member of a family of physicians. Marjorie's sister Jeanine (Jami Gertz Read More

10/26/90
Quantum Leap: Season 02

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Season two of Quantum Leap finds unwilling time traveler Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) trapped in someone else's body back in 1960 -- while in the present, Sam's holographic observer-advisor, Al (Dean Stockwell), is fervently begging a Senate committee to keep the Quantum Leap program alive. Later Read More

1990
Quantum Leap: Pilot

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1989
Quantum Leap: The Color of Truth

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1989
Quantum Leap: Season 01

Actors: Scott Bakula, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: Reluctant time-traveler Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) certainly gets a workout "leaping" from one person's body to another during the inaugural season of Quantum Leap -- and so, by extension, does Sam's holographic observer-advisor, Al (Dean Stockwell). The first episode, "Genesis: September 13, 1956 Read More

1989
Quantum Leap: Camikazi Kid

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1989
Quantum Leap: Catch a Falling Star

Synopsis: Premiering on NBC in 1989 and continuing for five seasons, Quantum Leap gained a cult following for its ability to balance the qualities of science fiction with the hour-long television drama format. Each episode features a different adventure as Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) leaps through time, into Read More

1989
Murphy Brown [TV Series]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Making its first appearance on November 14, 1988, the long-running, Emmy-winning CBS sitcom Murphy Brown starred Candice Bergen as the title character, the driving, driven, often overbearing but essentially likable star reporter of the Washington, D.C.-based TV magazine "FYI." A thorough Read More

1988
I-Man

Synopsis: "I," in this instance, stands for "Indestructible." Thus, star Scott Bakula is actually the Indestructible Man. Formerly a cab driver, Bakula becomes invulnerable when when exposed to a mysterious gas, then decides to utilize his "gift" for the Good of Mankind. At the urging of his Read More

1986
The Last Fling

Actors: John Ritter, Connie Sellecca

Synopsis: John Ritter stars in this made-for-television comedy as a lonely philanderer who falls in love with a one-night-stand (Connie Sellecca) who is about to marry another man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1986

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