Sharon GlessFilmography

Burn Notice: Season 02

Actors: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless

Nip/Tuck: Season 05

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson, John Hensley

Synopsis: As Season 5 begins, Christian (Julian McMahon) joins Sean (Dylan Walsh) in Los Angeles, where they soon discover they're pretty small fish in a very big plastic-surgery pond. Needing exposure for the practice, they hire a publicist (Lauren Hutton), who finds them work as medical advisers for the Read More

Burn Notice: Season 01

Actors: Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless

Synopsis: The first season of this sleek spy series mixes plenty of action with sex appeal and a dose of wry humor. While on a covert mission in Nigeria, spy Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) discovers he's been burned, which equates to being fired in the world of espionage. After escaping the immediate Read More

The State Within

Actors: Jason Isaacs, Sharon Gless, Ben Daniels, Eva Birthistle

Synopsis: The British ambassador to America becomes locked into a tense political firestorm when an airplane explodes while flying over Washington, D.C. in this topical British television series that explores the possibility of a British terrorist operating on American soil. Terrorists have stricken the Read More

Intimate Portrait: Sharon Gless

Queer As Folk [TV Series]

Actors: Gale Harold, Hal Sparks, Randy Harrison, Thea Gill, Michelle Clunie, Scott Lowell, Sharon Gless

Synopsis: The romantic misadventures of a handful of gay and lesbian friends living in a working-class section of Pittsburgh set the stage for this made-for-cable series, based on a popular (and controversial) British television serial. Brian (Gale Harold) is a professionally driven advertising executive Read More

Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Denial

Actors: Sharon Gless

Synopsis: Torrie Rosenzweig directs this straightforward documentary on the history of the cigarette and the tobacco lobby's attempts at obfuscating the growing health risks. The film charts tobacco farming in American history from its early colonial origins, which virtually bankrolled the American Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Perfect Game [1]

Synopsis: The owner of the Cherry Lanes Bowl-a-Rama, Ziggy (Sharon Gless) has been cranky, mean-spirited and desperately lonely ever since she was "jilted" by her erstwhile boyfriend Darrell (Dennis Arndt) 25 years before. Now Darrell has returned home to celebrate his birthday, and Ziggy is determined to Read More

Bring Him Home

Actors: Ed Asner, Sharon Gless

Synopsis: A troubled young man looking for his best friend is looking for help from the family he left behind in this drama for the family. Ricky Horvath (Jeffrey Licon) is a teenager who broke ties with his family and lives on the streets. Ricky's constant companion is his dog Buddy, and when his pet is Read More

From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff

Actors: Gregory Peck, Mala Powers, John Berry, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Michael Chekhov and George Shdanoff were Russian expatriates who came to Hollywood and became two of the best known and most influential acting coaches in the film industry; Chekhov was nominated for an Academy Award for his work in Spellbound, and as a teacher he and his associate Shdanoff helped Read More

The Girl Next Door

Actors: Tracey Gold, Sharon Gless, Tom Irwin

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV psychodrama, Annie Nolan falls in love with the handsome, charming Officer Craig Mitchell. The trouble is that he is married. However, Craig convinces Annie to murder his wife so they can be together. Two years pass and Annie lives with Craig, but she cannot forget her crime. Read More

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

Actors: Sharon Gless

Synopsis: Author and philosopher Ayn Rand (born Alice Rosenbaum) developed an intense following in the 1930s and '40s for her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and her anti-Communist, pro-Capitalism creed of Objectivism. Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life is a two-and-a-half hour exploration Read More

Cagney and Lacey: True Convictions

Actors: Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, James Naughton, John Karlen, Molly Orr

Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling

Actors: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless, James Naughton, John Karlen, Molly Orr

Cagney and Lacey: Together Again

Actors: Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, James Naughton, David Paymer, John Karlen

Synopsis: New York's toughest lady detectives re-team to solve the murder of a homeless transient who had been terrorizing the residents of a posh apartment building with screaming threats, insults and physical intimidation. Though the cops think the culprit is another street person, Cagney and Lacey Read More

Cagney & Lacey: The Return

Actors: Tyne Daly, Sharon Gless

Synopsis: In 1994 -- six years after the final episode of the groundbreaking 1980s television crime drama Cagney & Lacey -- Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly reprised their iconic roles for the first of four TV-movie sequels. Cagney & Lacey: The Return finds the now-retired Lacey reuniting with the now-married Read More

Separated by Murder

Actors: Sharon Gless, Steve Railsback, Ed Bruce

Synopsis: Sharon Gless does double duty in this made-for-TV drama, in which she plays Betty Gay Wilson and Peggy Joy Lowe, a pair of identical twin sisters who've always had an extremely close relationship. When Betty's husband is killed, a local eccentric steps forward with a shocking accusation: the Read More

Honor Thy Mother

Actors: Sharon Gless, William McNamara, Brian Wimmer, Suzanne Ventulett, Dion Anderson

Synopsis: Although his Mother denies his involvement in a brutal attack that left her critically injured and her husband dead, a college student is forced to deal with his guilt. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales of the Unexpected

Synopsis: This video is made up of four mini-thrillers from a popular television anthology series. The first is "People Don't Do Such Things," about a soured marriage; "Youth from Vienna," centering on a fountain of youth that gives unexpected results; "Skeleton in the Cupboard," about a man with a terrible Read More

The Outside Woman

Actors: Scott Glenn, Sharon Gless

Synopsis: William Blinn's teleplay for The Outside Woman smacks of the most exaggerated of contrivances--but it's all based on truth. Sharon Gless, who tries really hard to look dowdy, stars as a Southern mill worker. Highly susceptible to the possibility of romance, Gless falls for the smooth line of Scott Glenn Read More

Letting Go

Synopsis: Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet during a group-therapy session. Romance is inevitable, but the road to true happiness is pockmarked by a series of comic complications. Advertised as a straight romantic drama, Letting Go is actually Read More

The Star Chamber

Actors: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking

Synopsis: Fed up with watching vicious criminals walk on technicalities and loopholes, judge Michael Douglas accepts his older colleague Hal Holbrook's invitation to join "The Star Chamber." This sub-rosa organization consists of nine like-minded judges who endeavor to take the law into their own hands. Read More

The Sky's No Limit

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the experiences of three women as they endure the rigors of NASA training and compete with each other to become the first female astronaut in US history. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hobson's Choice

Synopsis: This third film version of Harold Brighthouse's play Hobson's Choice moves the locale from turn-of-century London to 1914 New Orleans. Horatio Hobson (Jack Warden) is the boozy, tyrannical owner of a shoe store. Hobson's daughter Maggie (Sharon Gless) falls in love with humble shoe clerk Will Read More

The Miracle of Kathy Miller

Actors: Helen Hunt, Sharon Gless, Frank Converse, Bill Beyers

Synopsis: Helen Hunt is outstanding as the real-life Kathy Miller, a 13-year-old Arizona athlete and honor student whose world came screeching to halt in 1977. Struck by a car on a lonely highway, Kathy spends the next ten weeks in a coma. Upon awakening, she is unable to walk, talk, read or write: she has Read More

The Scarlett O'Hara War

Actors: Tony Curtis, Sharon Gless, Harold Gould, Bill Macy, George Furth

Synopsis: Based on a portion of Garson Kanin's book Moviola, The Scarlet O'Hara War mixes fact with fiction in recreating producer David O. Selznick's search for an actress to star in Gone With the Wind. Tony Curtis plays Selznick, who turns his search into a major publicity ploy to sustain interest in his Read More

Revenge of the Stepford Wives

Synopsis: According to the NBC publicity packet, the made-for-TV Revenge of the Stepford Wives was "based on characters created by Ira Levin" -- specifically, those characters created by Levin for his fantasy-suspense novel The Stepford Wives, which was transformed into a theatrical film in 1975. On this Read More

Palms

Synopsis: In this police drama, two police detectives fall in love while attempting to destroy a drug ring in the Palms, an L.A. neighborhood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Kids Who Knew Too Much

Synopsis: The title characters in The Kids Who Knew Too Much are young model-building aficionados. Three in number, they are portrayed by Rad Daly, Dana Hill and Christopher Holloway. The kids make the acquaintance of ace reporter Sharon Gless, who is investigating a murder. Everyone is plunged into peril Read More

Hardhat and Legs

Actors: Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: Made for television and initially telecast February 9, 1980, Hardhat and Legs is a new-fashioned romance from the old-fashioned writing team of Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon. The "hardhat" is pugnacious construction worker Kevin Dobson. The "legs" is Sharon Gless, a high-class NY divorcee who Read More

Last Convertible

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Anton Myrer, the three-part NBC miniseries The Last Convertible chronicles the lives of five former Harvard roommates, all of whom share the titular Packard automobile. Beginning with the quintet's graduation in 1944, the teleplay by Philip de Guere, Stephen McPherson Read More

The Magic Statue

Synopsis: When a husband and a wife exchange personalities in this film, misunderstandings and confusion take over. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Crash of Flight 401

Synopsis: Originally made for television and based on true events from 1972, the story concerns an airline crash in the Everglades and the courageous adventures of the 73 survivors. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Islander

Synopsis: Dennis Weaver plays a retired mainland lawyer who becomes a hotel owner in Honolulu. Despite his most strenuous efforts, Weaver can't resist playing detective from time to time. You're absolutely right: The Islander was the pilot for an unsold TV series. Weaver's first and last case involves a Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

The Immigrants

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Howard Fast, the two-part, four-hour miniseries The Immigrants is the saga of Dan Lavetta (Stephen Macht). The son of an impoverished Italian immigrant family, Dan manages to emerge from the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (cunningly re-created via Read More

The Rockford Files: The Fourth Man

Synopsis: In the opening episode of The Rockford Files' third season, private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner) can't get the police to believe that his stewardess friend Lori Jenivan (Sharon Gless) is being pursued by a killer. But the fact is that Lori has been vulnerable to attack ever since she made an Read More

Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours

Synopsis: In this thriller, an amnesiac woman hires a young detective to investigate the two men who seem to be trying to kill her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: Law Dance

Synopsis: A clever murderer manages to dig up a legal loophole that allows him a new trial. Meanwhile, the prosecution's main witness against the criminal turns up dead. Kojak (Telly Savalas) must find the witness' killer and extract a confession before the swaggering defendant is set free for keeps. This Read More

Switch

Actors: Robert Wagner, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: Switch was the pilot film for a tongue-in-cheek adventure series that ran on CBS from 1975 to 1978. Robert Wagner stars as Pete Ryan, an ex-con sent up for being a "scam" artists, and Eddie Albert as Frank McBride, an ex-cop turned private investigator. Working as a team, Pete and Frank devote Read More

Emergency!: Election

Synopsis: An upcoming election for a departmental welfare committee finds Roy (Kevin Tighe) and John (Randolph Mantooth) running against each other. In various emergency calls, a sculptress (Sharon Gless) summons Squad 51 to help extricate her model from a plaster cast; a beer drinker chokes on a pull tab; Read More

Adam-12: Clinic on Eighteenth Street

Synopsis: This final episode of Adam-12's sixth season is actually the pilot for a proposed spinoff series titled Fraud. After they find a dead man with an oscillator belt tied around his waist, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) discover that the victim died of diabetic Read More

Airport 1975

Actors: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark

Synopsis: In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: The Modernization of Emily

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Emily never felt older nor more out of touch with the world than the day Bob gave her a blender as a birthday present. Determined to change her image, Emily rushes out and buys a "younger" wardrobe. What is one person's trendiness is another person's childishness -- and it hurts when that other Read More

The Rockford Files: This Case Is Closed, Part 1

Synopsis: In this rare 90-minute episode of The Rockford Files, Jim (James Garner) is hired by wealthy Warren Jameson, who wants to know something of the background of his future son-in-law Mark Chalmers (Geoffrey Land). Before long, Jim has run afoul of police lieutenant Larry Pierson (Eddie Fontaine), who Read More

Say Hello to a Dead Man

Synopsis: Say Hello to a Dead Man was the 90-minute pilot episode of the exceedingly brief TV detective series Faraday and Company. Dan Dailey stars as private eye Frank Faraday, recently released from a Carribean jail after 28 years. Not quite adapting to all the changes in the world since 1946, Faraday is Read More

My Darling Daughter's Anniversary

Actors: Darlene Carr

Synopsis: In this sequel to the highly popular 1972 TV movie All My Darling Daughters, it has been one year since the four grown daughter of widowed judge Charles Raleigh (Robert Young) were married on the very same day. Now it is the Judge's turn to march down the aisle with his new old sweetheart, Maggie Read More

Wheelbarrel Full of Trouble

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a private investigator wants to know why a famous used car dealer is willing to pay any price to own a certain old junker car. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ironside: House of Terror

Synopsis: The centerpiece of this episode is an allegedly haunted house, where over the course of many years several people have mysteriously vanished. The niece of the San Francisco police commissioner makes a bet that she can spend one night in the house--whereupon she disappears as well. Investigating Read More

All My Darling Daughters

Actors: Sharon Gless, Robert Young

Synopsis: Robert Young stars as Judge Charles Raleigh in the made-for-television All My Darling Daughters. The Judge happens to have four daughters, played by Darleen Carr, Judy Strangis, Sharon Gless, and Fawne Harriman (what did all the detective shows and sitcoms do for ingenues while these four ladies Read More

Emergency!: Fuzz Lady

Synopsis: Sharon Gless makes one of her first TV appearances as Sheila Thomas, an undercover police deputy investigating a series of thefts at Ramparts. Assisting Sheila in her inquiries is paramedic John Gage (Randolph Mantooth, who is quite smitten by the lady. Elsewhere, an old man (Paul Fix) suffering Read More

Night Slaves

Synopsis: James Franciscus and his wife Lee Grant take a vacation in a faraway, fogbound village. Before we get a chance to ask "Why not go to the beach?" Franciscus awakens suddenly in the middle of the night to see several of the villagers compliantly boarding trucks; among these glassy-eyed passengers is Read More