Sheldon LarryFilmography

Born:
October 3, 1949 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:
Director
  • Recipe for a Perfect Christmas

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Worn to a frazzle by her job at trendy "Glow" magazine, straitlaced J.J. Jenner (Carly Pope) is gratified when her boss offers her the job of writing an important food column--but only if she can finish a decent article within a two-week deadline, which will fall upon Christmas Eve. Impeding Read More

    2005
  • Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After 25 years of marriage, our heroine Rose (Christine Lathi), the book editor for the "LA Chronicle", is in for a shock. Her husband Nathan (Brian Kerwin), who is also her boss at the "Chronicle", has fallen in love with his much-younger assistant Mindy (Abby Brammell). Humiliating as it is when Read More

    2004
  • I Want to Marry Ryan Banks

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Former Beverly Hills 90210 costars Jason Priestleyand Emma Caulfield are reunited in this frothy made-for-cable romantic comedy. Priestly plays Ryan Banks, a once-popular movie actor whose career is in the toilet, not only because of bad role choices but also because of his unsavory reputation as Read More

    2004
  • Children of Fortune

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer

    Synopsis: Set in Arizona (but filmed in Alberta), the made-for-TV thriller Children of Fortune stars James Brolin as Navy detective Dave Passenger. Assigned to investigate the murder of a sailor's girlfriend, Dave follows the trail of evidence to a small Arizona community where polygamy is still being Read More

    2000
  • Trial by Media

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Christine Lahti, Tom Skerritt, Jay Thomas, Mark Feuerstein, Stanley Anderson

    Synopsis: Adapted from the stage comedy by Wendy Wasserstein, the made-for-cable An American Daughter was clearly inspired by the "Nannygate" imbroglio surrounding President Bill Clinton's political appointees Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood. Christine Lahti stars as Lyssa Dent Hughes, the daughter of a prominent Read More

    2000
  • At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer

    Synopsis: Wendy Crewson won the Canadian Gemini award for her towering performance as the title character in this made-for-TV biopic. Terminally ill with cancer, Sue Rodriguez wants to exercise the option of ending her own life, primarily to spare her family the trouble and expense of caring for her in her Read More

    1998
  • Keeping the Promise

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Keith Carradine, Annette O'Toole, Gordon Tootoosis, Brendan Fletcher

    Synopsis: This outdoor adventure is set in the mid-18th century. In the wilderness of Maine a boy struggles to survive and keep a promise when his father does not return from a trip to Massachusetts. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1997
  • If Looks Could Kill: From the Files of America's Most Wanted

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Synopsis: America's Most Wanted host John Walsh appears as himself and serves as producer in this made-for-TV movie, inspired by one of the most infamous crimes to be chronicled on Walsh's popular TV series. Antonio Sabato Jr. stars as John Hawkins, a frustratingly elusive criminal, con artist, drug dealer Read More

    1996
  • A Christmas Romance

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Actors: Olivia Newton-John, Gregory Harrison, Chloe Lattanzi, Stephanie Sawyer, Stephen E. Miller

    Synopsis: Olivia Newton-John stars in this sentimental TV movie as Julia Stonecypher, an impoverished widow with two daughters. Living in a remote mountain cabin, Julia relies upon the meager income received from the cakes she bakes for the local townsfolk. Unfortunately, it isn't quite enough to pay the Read More

    1994
  • Family of Strangers

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Melissa Gilbert

    Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is based on the true story of a woman's search for her birth parents. Melissa Gilbert-Boxleitner stars as Julie, a woman about to undergo surgery. Confronted with questions about her medical history, Julie learns for the first time that she in fact was adopted as an Read More

    1993
  • Black Death

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Kate Jackson, Jerry Orbach, Kathleen Robertson, Luis Guzman, Al Waxman

    Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a teenage girl named Sarah (Kathleen Robertson) is flying home to see her parents when she falls ill. While Sarah is convinced that she has simply come down with a bad cold, when she keels over and dies while crossing a street, an autopsy reveals that Sarah had in fact Read More

    1992
  • Miss Helen

    Crew: Director

    1991
  • First Circle

    Crew: Director

    Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Victor Garber, Laurent Malet, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell, Robert Joy

    Synopsis: Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose future freedom depends on a technological break-through. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

    1991
  • Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Ponce de Leon

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This film, hosted by Shelley Duvall, is a spoof, loosely based on the exploits of Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon. The Spaniard laid claim to Florida in 1513, landing near St. Augustine. History has it that he was seeking the Fountain of Youth, a legend that he had learned from native peoples in Read More

    1990
  • Burning Bridges

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this drama a woman suffers terribly after she finally admits having an affair with her married doctor. Her husband does not accept the news gracefully and trouble ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1990
  • Hot Paint

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The inadvertent theft of a valuable Renoir force an actor and an unemployed salesman into the limelight in this crime comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1988
  • Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Using a combination of historical fact, deliberately anachronistic one-liners, and beautifully designed forced perpective sets, Shelley Duvall herein serves up another sparkling 50 minutes in her Tall Tales cable series. Michael York plays an arrogant, publicity-seeking Ponce de Leon, who journeys Read More

    1986
  • Home

    Crew: Director

    1986
  • Behind Enemy Lines

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Hal Holbrook, Ray Sharkey, Maryam D'Abo, Lucy Hornak, Alun Lewis

    Synopsis: Hal Holbrook stars in this TV pilot film as Colonel Calvin Turner, a special operative for the OSS during World War II. Working in cooperation with British intelligence, Turner's mission is to uncover atomic weapon secrets at a Nazi plant in occupied Norway. The task permits him time for a bit of Read More

    1985
  • Terminal Choice

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Joe Spano, Diane Venora, David McCallum, Robert Joy, Don Francks

    Synopsis: In an uneasy blend of sci fi computer hokum and human miscreants at work, this story of suspicious deaths in a hospital is ominous on various counts but not likely to keep tension high-strung. Dr. Frank Holt (Joe Spano) has already had one malpractice suit that cost him a job, so when one of his Read More

    1985
  • First Steps

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Judd Hirsch, Amy Steel, Kim Darby

    Synopsis: First Steps was inspired by a widely-seen, enthusiastically received 1982 piece on 60 Minutes. Amy Steel plays Nan Davis, a young woman totally paralyzed in an auto accident. Judd Hirsch costars as Dr. Jerold Petrovsky, a bioengineer who attaches computerized electrodes to Nan to enable her to Read More

    1985
  • 1982
  • A Gift to Last [TV Series]

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Gordon Pinsent, Janet Amos, Mark Polley, Kate Parr, Ruth Springfield

    Synopsis: Created by Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent as a potential TV vehicle for himself, A Gift to Last first aired as a one-off CBC special in 1976. Narrated by Melvyn Douglas, the program chronicled the lives and times of the Sturgess family, who lived in Tamarack, Ontario, at the turn of the century. On Read More

    1978

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