Stephanie ZimbalistFilmography

Touched by an Angel: Heaven's Portal

Synopsis: Gloria (Valerie Bertinelli) tries to help Nick Albright (Ross Malinger), a troubled teen whose family is going through bankruptcy and a marital breakup just before Thanksgiving. Seeking a way to escape his problems, Nick heads to a popular Rave called Heaven's Portal, and Gloria tags along. So far Read More

The Prophet's Game

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stephanie Zimbalist, Joe Penny

Synopsis: In this thriller, a detective stalks a multiple murderer whose methods are as peculiar as they are deadly. Vincent Swan (Dennis Hopper) is a veteran police investigator obsessed with catching a serial killer making his way down the West Coast. When the killer begins doing his grisly work in Los Read More

Touched By an Angel: My Dinner With Andrew

Synopsis: At a bachelor auction to benefit a Biotech institute, likable "Angel of Death" Andrew (John Dye) is entered as one of the prizes. The winning bid is registered by Dr. Kate Calder (Stephanie Zimbalist), who has only entered the auction to spite her rival Beth Popik (Lisa Eichhorn)--and as such Read More

Prison of Secrets

Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist, Dan Lauria, Finola Hughes, Gary Frank, Rusty Schwimmer

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is based on the true story of a female prison inmate who fought for women's rights while still behind bars. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as Lynn Shaffer, a wife and mother who gets convicted of white-collar crime and is sentenced to ten years in prison. While behind Read More

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

Actors: Peter Scolari, Stephanie Zimbalist

Dead Ahead

Actors: Peter Onorati, Stephanie Zimbalist, Brendan Fletcher, Sarah Chalke, John Tench

Synopsis: In this modestly suspenseful backwoods thriller, a hostage situation turns an ordinary mom into a fearsome huntress, thereby bringing her family together. Set in a heavily forested part of the Oregon coast, the tale of terror begins when a quartet of desperate bank robbers botch their escape and Read More

The Great Elephant Escape

Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Kenya, this made-for-TV movie tells the story of a boy's fight to save an elephant. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as Beverly Cunningham, a mother who takes her son to live with her in Africa. When her son and a pal befriend an abandoned elephant, a Safari chase ensues as they try Read More

Voices from Within

Actors: JoBeth Williams, Corbin Bernsen, Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: A nurse suffering from multiple-personality syndrome dies, leaving her sister to team up with police to figure out why. At first the sister suspects murder, but further investigation reveals an even more painful truth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Incident in a Small Town

Actors: Walter Matthau, Stephanie Zimbalist, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: Walter Matthau, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Harry Morgan star in this made-for-television drama, in which a judge in a small town discovers that the skeletons in his family closet are aired for all to see after he's named as a prime suspect in the murder of his son-in-law. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Read More

Semi-Precious

Actors: Joanna Kerns, Stephanie Zimbalist, Gaby Hoffmann

Jericho Fever

Synopsis: Stephanie Zimbalist and Perry King co-star in the made-for-cable Jericho Fever. The story concerns a group of Mexican terrorists, fleeing from the authorities by crossing the border into the US. What the terrorists don't know is that they're carrying a deadly virus. Zimbalist and King race against Read More

Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible: The Creation

Synopsis: From the highly acclaimed Hanna-Barbera animation studios comes the ten-tape children's series Greatest Adventures From the Bible. The episodes are each viewed from the eyes of three young archaeologists from the 20th century -- Derek, Mokey, and Margot. The youngsters are taken back in time to Read More

Breaking the Silence

Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist, Chris Young

Synopsis: Frequent TV-movie costars Stephanie Zimbalist and Gregory Harrison are teamed once more in Breaking the Silence. Harrison plays a lawyer defending a teenager (Chris Young) accused of murdering his father. As the boy details a lengthy history of abuse at the hands of his father, Harrison flashes Read More

Sexual Advances

Synopsis: Treatment of a problem only recently addressed, the promotion manager of a sporting equipment firm becomes the victim of sexual harassment. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Story Lady

Actors: Ed Begley, Jr., Tandy Cronyn, Lisa Jakub, Richard Masur, Jessica Tandy, Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, Jessica Tandy plays Grace McQueen, an elderly woman who has grown bored and restless following the death of her husband. Grace has always loved telling stories to children, and as a way of keeping herself occupied she comes up with an idea for a public access television Read More

Caroline?

Actors: George Grizzard, Pamela Reed, Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: This suspenseful drama first aired on television as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame Theater. It tells the story of a young woman who suddenly appears at the family estate claiming to be the title character and demanding her rightful inheritance. The family doesn't know what to think, because Read More

Personals

Synopsis: A soft-spoken wallflower who works in a library during the day proves to be a seductive homicidal maniac at night in this made-for-television thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Killing Mind

Synopsis: Stephanie Zimbalist stars in this made-for-cable thriller as a L.A. detective who decides to re-open the case of a murder she herself witnessed as a child. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man in the Brown Suit

Synopsis: Based on a 1924 mystery novel by Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit was the eighth of Warner Bros. Television's Christie-inspired TV movies. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as an American tourist in Cairo (with Spain standing in for Egypt). She runs across a mysterious murder, and an odd Read More

Celebration Family

Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist, James Read, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: In this touching family drama, a loving couple discovers they can no longer make babies so they provide a good home to unwanted children. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Remington Steele: Season 05

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Stephanie Zimbalist, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: After the four-year run of the original Remington Steele wrapped at the end of its fourth episode in the late summer of 1986, the property was briefly revived for a fifth season, consisting of a brace of TV movies and a two-part miniseries. While fans were thrilled, star Pierce Brosnan was not; Read More

Remington Steele: Season 04

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Stephanie Zimbalist, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: We've reached the fourth season of Remington Steele, and the private eye title character (Pierce Brosnan) and his partner Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) still haven't consummated their unspoken passion for one another. Point of fact, we still don't know the real name of the man who calls himself Read More

Love on the Run

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, an attorney aids her wrongly-convicted client in his escape from prison, then joins him on the lam. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

A Letter to Three Wives

Synopsis: Made for television, A Letter to Three Wives is a modernized version of the classic 1949 theatrical film of the same name. While on a charity picnic, the wives of three well-to-do men each receive a letter from a fourth woman, a flashy divorcée named Addie (who is never seen). With calculated Read More

Remington Steele: Season 03

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Stephanie Zimbalist, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: We still haven't learned the true name of the suave private detective who calls himself Remington Steele (Pierce Brosnan) as the series bearing the same name enters its third season. All we know for sure is that the real brains behind the Remington Steele Detective Agency is sexy private eye Laura Read More

Remington Steele: Season 02

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: Private detective Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) continues to grit her teeth and play second fiddle to her junior partner as Remington Steele begins its second season. Although Laura is head of the Remington Steele Agency, her partner, a suave and handsome stranger with a checkered past (played Read More

Remington Steele: Season 01

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: As Remington Steele swings into its first season, sexy private detective Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) and her nebbishy partner Murphy Michaels (James Read) are enjoying a hitherto unimagined stretch of profitability. It seems that, up until recently, Laura had been unable to convince potential Read More

Tomorrow's Child

Synopsis: Less than a week after the premiere telecast of the "surrogate mother" drama The Gift of Life, the similarly-themed Tomorrow's Child made its TV debut. Stephanie Zimbalist and her geneticist husband William Atherton agree to participate in a secret lab experiment. Under the aegis of doctors Ed Flanders Read More

Elvis and the Beauty Queen

Synopsis: TV movies dealing with Elvis Presley are always good for a few vital extra rating points, and Elvis and the Beauty Queen was no exception to this rule. The King, here played by Don Johnson, is first seen here at the age of 37. Elvis falls in love with 21-year-old Miss Universe contestant Linda Read More

The Awakening

Actors: Charlton Heston, Susannah York, Jill Townsend, Stephanie Zimbalist, Patrick Drury

Synopsis: English archaeologist Matthew Corbeck (played by the emphatically-American Charlton Heston) undertakes an expedition to find the tomb of the Egyptian princess Kara, despite his awareness of a nefarious curse that is said to befall anyone who disturbs the tomb. Eighteen years after Corbeck's Read More

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

Synopsis: Some sort of Bad Timing Award must surely be bestowed upon the otherwise worthwhile Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story. David Keith stars as American athlete Wayne Robinson, whose main goal in life is to win the Olympic Decathlon. His dream is compromised when he falls in love with Soviet Read More

The Babysitter

Synopsis: The Babysitter is sweet-faced Stephanie Zimbalist, who is hired as housekeeper by married couple Patty Duke Astin and William Shatner. As she takes care of the couple's daughter (Quinn Cummings), Zimbalist slowly, subtly poisons the child's mind against her parents. She then sets about to seduce Shatner Read More

The Best Place to Be

Actors: Mildred Dunnock, Michael J. Shannon, Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: This attenuated adaptation of Helen Van Slyke's novel stars Donna Reed (her first TV appearance in 12 years) as a widow with financial and domestic problems. Her adult daughter Stephanie Zimbalist has turned to drugs; her sons Michael Shannon and Tim Hutton have less severe but no less Read More

The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama tells of an actual event in 1911 where 145 workers in the Triangle garment factory were killed in a huge industrial fire. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Magic of Lassie

Actors: James Stewart, Mickey Rooney, Pernell Roberts, Stephanie Zimbalist, Michael Sharrett

Synopsis: This first Lassie film in nearly three decades (discounting the various feature-length compilations of Lassie TV episodes) is worth watching for its veteran cast. Lassie is legally wrested from freckled-faced Michael Sharrett by evil Pernell Roberts, who hopes that the kid's grandpa Jimmy Stewart Read More

Forever

Synopsis: According to the network press release, the made-for-TV Forever was concerned with the "joys and anguish" of teenage romance. The teenage romancers herein are played by Stephanie Zimbalist and Dean Butler. It is the first serious relationship for both, and so far as they are concerned, it will be Read More

Long Journey Back

Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: Stephanie Zimbalist stars as the brilliant, athletic teen-aged daughter of Cloris Leachman and Michael Connors. Stephanie's perfect world is shattered when she is caught in the middle of a bus-train collision. She survives, but suffers severe brain damage and the loss of a leg. Zimbalist must make 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

Yesterday's Child

In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan

Synopsis: The right to die with dignity was at the heart of this fact-based TV movie. After a serious accident, New Jersey woman Karen Ann Quinlan lapses into an irreversible coma. Only a complicated and expensive life-support system forestalls Karen's inevitable death; otherwise, she is brain dead and her Read More

The Gathering

Actors: Rebecca Balding, Gregory Harrison, Maureen Stapleton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: The Gathering stars Ed Asner as an ill-tempered executive who long ago walked out on his family. Just before Christmas, Asner is told that he has only a few weeks to live. He confides this information to his estranged wife Maureen Stapleton, who suggests that he call his four adult children (Gail Strickland Read More