Sherry Lansing Filmography

Born:: July 31, 1944 in Chicago, IL
Occupation:: Actor, Co-producer, Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: Fans of Howard Hawks' Rio Lobo (1969) may be intrigued to discover that the beautiful secondary heroine who is facially disfigured by the villains is the same person who later produced Fatal Attraction (1987), The Accused (1988) and Indecent Proposal (1993). Chicago-born film executive Sherry...Read More

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Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Actors: George Clooney, Danny DeVito, Peter Bogdanovich, David Brown, Richard Dreyfuss

Synopsis: Take a walk on the fine line between box-office blockbusters and instantly forgettable bombs as Oscar and Emmy-winning producer/director Bill Couturie sets out to explore just what separates such high-profile hits as Jaws from such room-clearing disasters as Howard the Duck. Executive produced by Read More

2005
Intimate Portrait: Sherry Lansing

2002
Frasier: The Focus Group

Synopsis: A 12-person focus group comprised of ordinary citizens reviews Frasier's radio show. 11 of the 12 love the show; the 12th, the owner of a newspaper stand, does not. Neurotically obsessing over why this particular group member is apparently hostile toward him, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) begins Read More

1996
Frasier: You Can Never Go Home Again

Synopsis: On the occasion of his three-year anniversary with KACL, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is given a present by Roz (Peri Gilpin) -- a tape of his very first broadcast. As he listens to the tape, Frasier flashes back to the events over the past few years. The balance of the story is something of a prequel Read More

1996
Indecent Proposal

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Oliver Platt, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in this yuppie melodrama that poses the conundrum of whether the loving husband of an equally loving wife will accept $1 million to allow his wife to spend one night with a billionaire who looks like Robert Redford. All the cynics Read More

1993
School Ties

Crew: Producer

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery

Synopsis: An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan Fraser stars as David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is offered a senior year scholarship to a prestigious New England academy. Read More

9/18/92
Black Rain

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Shigeru Koyama, Yusaku Matsuda

Synopsis: Under scrutiny by his superiors for allegedly dipping into confiscated drug money, New York vice cop Michael Douglas can expect no sympathy from his ex-wife, who is gouging him for alimony. Douglas gets a chance to redeem himself when he is assigned to escort Japanese mob boss Yusaku Matsuda back Read More

9/22/89
The Accused

Crew: Co-producer, Producer

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Bernie Coulson, Leo Rossi, Ann Hearn

Synopsis: Based on a real-life 1983 incident, The Accused tells the story of Sarah Tobias (Jodie Foster), a working-class party girl who likes to live it up with her friends and flirt hard with the guys. After a fight with her boyfriend, she heads to a local bar to cool down -- and after a few drinks, plus Read More

10/14/88
Fatal Attraction

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Fred Gwynne, Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Mike Nussbaum

Synopsis: "Fatal attraction" has become a household term for love turned to murderous obsession, thanks to the success of Adrian Lyne's 1987 movie. Dan (Michael Douglas) is a family man whose one-night affair with Alex (Glenn Close) turns into a nightmare when she insists on continuing the relationship Read More

9/18/87
Firstborn

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Teri Garr, Peter Weller, Christopher Collet, Corey Haim, Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis: A teenager and his kid brother spar with their mother's shady new boyfriend in this dramatic thriller from veteran British director Michael Apted. When her ex-husband remarries, Wendy (Teri Garr) feels despondent -- until she starts dating handsome, unctuous Sam (Peter Weller), an underemployed Read More

1984
Racing with the Moon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen, Rutanya Alda

Synopsis: Sean Penn graduated to full stardom with the 1984 drama Racing with the Moon, even though the film itself hardly set new box office records. Set in the early years of World War II, the film stars Penn as a small-town teen-aged hotshot, six weeks away from being shipped out to fight overseas. In Read More

1984
Ironside: A Killing at the Track

Synopsis: Broadway musical star Joel Grey appears in this episode as jockey Eddie Yeager, who is suspected of throwing several horse races. Ironside (Raymond Burr) wonders if Eddie is the real culprit, or if the brains of the operation is a certain Scott Bradley (played by TV's former "Tarzan" Ron Ely). Read More

1971
Loving

Actors: George Segal, Eva Marie Saint, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Nancie Phillips, Roland Winters

Synopsis: Irvin Kershner directed this comedy-drama about one man's struggle with relationships and himself. Brooks (George Segal) is a middle-aged commercial artist who is at a personal and professional crossroads; he wants to take a stab at a career in fine art, but he can barely land enough assignments Read More

1970
Rio Lobo

Actors: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: John Wayne, in the last of his Civil War characterizations, portrays Cord McNally, a Union Army colonel who loses a gold shipment in a Confederate raid, during which a devoted young officer is also killed. After the end of the war, McNally bears no ill-will toward the leaders of the raid, Pierre Read More

1970