Stockard Channing Filmography

Born:: February 13, 1944 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Susan Williams Antonia Stockard
Biography:: Born Susan Williams Antonia Stockard Channing Schmidt on February 13, 1944, Channing is the daughter of a wealthy shipping executive, and became interested in the dramatic arts while attending college at Radcliffe. After graduating in the mid-sixties, Channing joined Boston's experimental...Read More

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Multiple Sarcasms

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino

2008
The Joy of Funerals

Crew: Director, Producer

1/1/08
3 Needles

Actors: Shawn Ashmore, Stockard Channing, Tanabadee Chokpikultong, Olympia Dukakis, Lucy Liu

Synopsis: Three stories, which offer differing perspectives on the AIDS pandemic, are featured in this anthology-drama. Sister Clara (Chloë Sevigny) is a young nun who is working with two, more experienced, missionaries (Olympia Dukakis and Sandra Oh) in a village along the African coast. Sister Clara finds Read More

12/1/06
Sparkle

Actors: Stockard Channing, Shaun Evans, Anthony Head, Bob Hoskins, Lesley Manville

Synopsis: Academy Award nominees Stockard Channing and Bob Hoskins co-headline the British romantic comedy Sparkle, the third outing by the critically-praised writing and directing team of Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger (Lawless Heart, Boyfriends). Neophyte Shaun Evans plays Sam Sparks, a young man who Read More

2006
Must Love Dogs

Actors: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: A woman finds herself drafted into the battle of finding the perfect man in this romantic comedy. Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) is a kindergarten teacher in her mid-thirties who is still dealing with the emotional aftermath of her divorce eight months ago. While her sisters, Christine (Ali Hillis) and Read More

7/29/05
Red Mercury

Actors: David Bradley, Stockard Channing, Pete Postlethwaite, Ron Silver, Juliet Stevenson

Synopsis: As three bomb-toting Muslim fundamentalists hold the citizens of a London restaurant hostage, the revelation that one of the terrorists has been researching a little-known Russian explosive known as "Red Mercury" promos authorities to handle the situation with extreme caution in director Roy Read More

2005
Home of the Brave

Actors: Mary Liuzzo, Tony Liuzzo, Sally Liuzzo, Penny Liuzzo, Sue Liuzzo

Synopsis: Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Paola di Florio directs Home of the Brave, a documentary about the impact of Viola Liuzzo's murder. Detroit housewife and mother of five, Liuzzo was a civil rights activist who went to Alabama to help with voter registration in 1965. She was in town during the Read More

10/1/04
Nature: Diamonds

Synopsis: This documentary takes a look at diamonds, from their origin to the mining and sale of the precious gems. The program gives the viewer an up close look at many large and valuable diamonds including the largest flawless diamond in existence at the time of filming. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Read More

2004
National Geographic: The Kennedy Mystique - Creating Camelot

Synopsis: Take a closer look at "Camelot" in this release that seeks to explore the Kennedy mystique through rare images, little-seen home movie footage, and interviews with White House staff, photographers, journalists, and biographers. Imbued with youthful energy and blessed with the kind of photogenic Read More

2004
The West Wing: Season 06

Actors: Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Janel Moloney, Dule Hill, Joshua Malina, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: The crises facing the various members of the Bartlet administration at the outset of The West Wing's sixth season include the ever-escalating hostilities between Israel and Palestine, with President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) refusing to exploit the situation by staging a preemptive strike against a Read More

2004
Intimate Portrait: Stockard Channing

2004
Anything Else

Actors: Woody Allen, Jason Biggs, Christina Ricci, Danny DeVito, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: A young artist struggling with his career and his muse is getting more than a little aggravation from Cupid in this romantic comedy written and directed by Woody Allen. Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) is a promising 21-year-old comedy writer living in New York City. While Jerry has talent, he's having a Read More

9/19/03
Le Divorce

Actors: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Jean-Marc Barr, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Based on the 1997 National Book Award-nominated novel of the same name by Diane Johnson (co-writer of the script for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining), Le Divorce is a romantic comedy from director James Ivory. Revisiting the "Americans in France" theme that Ivory explored in 1998's A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries Read More

8/8/03
Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone, Julianna Margulies, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: British actor Robert Carlyle stars as the 20th century's most infamous dictator in this two-part TV biopic. The film covers the life of Adolf Hitler from his childhood to his emergence as absolute ruler of Germany in 1934. Most of the ground covered should be familiar to history buffs: Hitler's Read More

2003
What the Universe Tells Me: Unraveling the Mysteries of Mahler's Third Symphony

Actors: Thomas Hampson

Synopsis: Academy Award nominee Stockard Channing narrates this musical documentary from Video Artists International that explores one of the most renowned works of classical music ever composed. What the Universe Tells Me: Unraveling the Mysteries of Mahler's Third Symphony combines footage of the lavish Read More

2003
Jack

Synopsis: An adolescent who is sorting out his new sexual feelings is less than comforted by the example of his immediate family in this coming-of-age comedy drama. Jack (Anton Yelchin) is a boy in his early teens who is rolling headlong into puberty and trying to make sense of his feelings about girls Read More

2003
Behind the Red Door

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, Kiefer Sutherland, Stockard Channing, Jason Carter, Chuck Shamata

Synopsis: Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best friend Julia (Stockard Channing) arranges for her to Read More

2003
The West Wing: Season 05

Actors: Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Janel Moloney, Dule Hill, Joshua Malina, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: The administration of President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) is still technically in charge of the United States as The West Wing enters its fifth season (and its first without the services of longtime producer Aaron Sorkin), but Bartlet himself is no longer commander in chief -- at least, not at Read More

2003
Life or Something Like It

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, Stockard Channing, Melissa Errico

Synopsis: An egotistical TV reporter learns to appreciate the good things in life thanks to an eccentric, homeless clairvoyant in this old-fashioned romantic comedy from director Stephen Herek (Mr. Holland's Opus). Seattle native Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) has spent most of her adult existence trying Read More

4/26/02
New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of 9/11

Synopsis: First aired on the Discovery Channel on March 8, 2001, New York Firefighters: The Brotherhood of September 11 focuses on the efforts of a team of rescue workers who gave their lives on September 11. Rescue Company Three consisted of eight men: Brian Hickey, Ray Meisenheimer, Christopher Blackwell Read More

2002
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Synopsis: Based on the (somewhat darker) novel by Gregory Maguire, the made-for-TV movie Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister offers a refreshing revisionist spin on the old Cinderella legend. Having squandered her late husband's fortune, 17th century widow Margarethe (Stockard Channing) moves from London to Read More

2002
The West Wing: Season 04

Actors: Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Dule Hill, Janel Moloney, Joshua Malina, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Once the fourth season of The West Wing gets past its semi-serious two-part opener, in which White House staffers Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff), Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford), and Donna Moss (Janel Moloney) get lost somewhere in Indiana while campaigning for the re-election of President Jed Read More

2002
The Business of Strangers

Actors: Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller

Synopsis: Two women on different ends of the spectrum of corporate power come together with explosive results in this drama. Julie Styron (Stockard Channing) is a successful executive with a major international corporation who is starting to feel the pressure of her position; she has few friends and no Read More

12/7/01
The West Wing: Season 03

Actors: Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Dule Hill, Janel Moloney, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Season three of The West Wing breaks the series' established continuity with the opening episode, "Isaac and Ishmael," hastily assembled to address the terrible events of September 11, 2001. Thereafter, the principal storyline picks up where season two left off, with President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen 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
The Truth About Jane

Actors: Stockard Channing, Ellen Muth, Kelly Rowan

Synopsis: A teenager going through the typical traumas of adolescence has to confront an especially big hurdle in this made-for-TV drama. Jane (Ellen Muth) is a seemingly typical 15-year-old high school student; she's popular at school, does well in her classes, and has a good relationship with her parents Read More

2001
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The William Haines Story

Actors: Christopher Lawford, Chris Allen, Herb Gore, Bod Wildman, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: While all but forgotten today, between 1926 and 1935, William Haines was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, an affable leading man with cocky charm and a self-depreciating comic touch. Haines enjoyed his first major hit with the collegiate football comedy Brown of Harvard, and several years Read More

2001
Where the Heart Is

Actors: Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, James Frain, Dylan Bruno, Keith David, Sally Field

Synopsis: Pregnant 17-year-old Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) runs away from her Tennessee home toward the bright lights of California, accompanied by her boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickins (Dylan Bruno). But Willy gets cold feet and abandons her at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, OK. Novalee's life savings amount to Read More

4/28/00
Isn't She Great

Actors: Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, David Hyde Pierce, John Cleese

Synopsis: Jacqueline Susann spent a long career on the edges of show business as an actress and model, but it never really paid off until she quit acting to write her first novel. Valley of the Dolls was a proudly sleazy potboiler that sold 26 million copies and had readers wondering which characters Read More

1/28/00
Only a Teacher, Episode 2: Those Who Can...Teach

Synopsis: This three-part PBS series examines the different ways that American teachers have contributed to society since the 1830s. In candid interviews, teachers of different generations talk about the goals they hoped to accomplish when they began their careers. Featured classroom segments show lively Read More

2000
Only a Teacher, Episode 3: Educating to End Inequity

Synopsis: This three-part PBS series examines the different ways that American teachers have contributed to society since the 1830s. In candid interviews, teachers of different generations talk about the goals they hoped to accomplish when they began their careers. Featured classroom segments show lively Read More

2000
The West Wing: The White House Pro-Am

Actors: Dule Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Elisabeth Moss, Jorja Fox, Stockard Channing, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: Abigail Bartlet (Stockard Channing) makes some bold statements concerning policy during an appearance on a talk show, causing a rift between her staff and the White House staff. When the head of the Federal Reserve passes away, President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) must consider appointing his wife's Read More

2000
Only a Teacher, Episode 1: A Teacher Affects Eternity

Synopsis: This three-part PBS series examines the different ways that American teachers have contributed to society since the 1830s. In candid interviews, teachers of different generations talk about the goals they hoped to accomplish when they began their careers. A variety of experts discuss the many Read More

2000
The Piano Man's Daughter

Actors: Christian Campbell, Allan Price, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: A young man must deal with several generations of madness and familial intrigue in this screen adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Timothy Findley. Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) is a young man whose mother, Lily (Stockard Channing), is the daughter of Frederick Wyatt (R.H. Thomson), the Read More

2000
Batman Beyond: Season 03

Actors: Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Such formidable villains as Shriek, Inque, the Jokerz and the Royal Flush gang continue to make like difficult for the "new" Batman, aka Terry McGinniss, as he tries to purge crime from the Gotham City of 2021 AD in Season Three of the animated Batman Beyond. Adding to Terry's burden this season Read More

2000
The West Wing: He Shall, From Time To Time

Actors: Dule Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Stockard Channing, Allison Smith, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: Serious health problems befall the White House as President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) passes out while preparing for the State of the Union Address, and Leo (John Spencer) publicly admits to his previous addictions to alcohol and pain killers. Lord Marbury (Roger Rees) finds a peaceful solution to Read More

2000
Other Voices

Actors: Mary McCormack, David Aaron Baker, Campbell Scott, Rob Morrow, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: Dan McCormack spins this yuppie nightmare about lost identity, lost love, and New York. Phil (David Aaron Baker) and Anna (Mary McCormack) are a young couple whose marriage is slowly going sour. Each suspects the other of having an illicit affair. Anna shares with her analyst, Dr. Grover (Stockard Channing Read More

2000
Batman Beyond: The Movie

Synopsis: In this pilot film for the Batman Beyond television series (which aired as a two-part episode), Bruce Wayne (Kevin Conroy) has become too old for super heroics and has hung up his bat suit for good. However, a young man named Terry McGinnis (Will Friedle) wants to avenge the death of his father Read More

1999
The West Wing: The State Dinner

Actors: Dule Hill, Elisabeth Moss, Kathryn Joosten, Stockard Channing, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: While a gala state dinner for the leader of Indonesia is prepared for and transpires, the president (Martin Sheen) and his staff must deal with numerous sensitive situations. Federal agents are involved in an armed standoff with a group of extremists who are holding hostages, a powerful hurricane Read More

1999
The Venice Project

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Dennis Hopper, Linus Roache, Ben Cross, Stuart Townsend

Synopsis: In this witty drama, the future of art is examined from two vantage points: the years 1699 and 1999. Roland (Dennis Hopper) is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister, Countess Camilla Volta (Lauren Bacall), lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father, The Read More

1999
Batman Beyond: Season 01

Actors: Will Friedle, Kevin Conroy, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: In the decaying, crime-ridden Gotham City of the future, embittered millionaire Bruce Wayne is persuaded to pass along the mantle (and mask and cowl) of legendary "Caped Crusader" Batman to teenager Terry McGinniss in Season One of the animated series Batman Beyond. The two-part pilot establishes Read More

1999
Practical Magic

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, Stockard Channing, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Griffin Dunne directed this romantic fantasy adapted from the 1995 Alice Hoffman novel about the Owens family of witches, regarded as outcasts in the town where they live. Aunt Frances (Stockard Channing) and her sister Aunt Jet (Dianne Wiest) tried to pass on practical magic skills to their Read More

10/16/98
Twilight

Actors: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, Stockard Channing

Synopsis: The Nobody's Fool (1994) team of Paul Newman, director Robert Benton, and scripter Richard Russo reassembled for this L.A. detective drama, beginning with a Puerto Vallarta prologue showing private eye Harry Ross (Newman) accidentally shot by 17-year-old Mel Ames (Reese Witherspoon) during his Read More

1998
The Baby Dance

Actors: Laura Dern, Stockard Channing, Peter Riegert, Richard Lineback, Wally Dalton

Synopsis: For this TV movie, writer-director Jane Anderson adapted her own play contrasting biological and adoptive mothers. Impoverished and pregnant Wanda LeFauve (Laura Dern) lives in a trailer outside Shreveport with her four children and her unemployed husband Al LeFauve (Richard Lineback). When Wanda Read More

1998
King of the Hill: The Company Man

1997
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde

Synopsis: Man Ray, famed Dada artist, expatriate, and innovator, is the subject of this PBS American Masters Series episode. Stockard Channing hosts this in-depth documentary. Several interviews with the artist himself and other archival footage aptly covers and describes one of the 20th Century's most Read More

1997
An Unexpected Life

Actors: Stockard Channing, Stephen Collins, Christine Ebersole, Chelsea Russo, Noah Fleiss

Synopsis: A USA original movie, this drama centers on a woman faced with a series of life-altering surprises. First her niece and nephew come to live with her, forever. Then she falls in love and her new beau moves in. The makeshift family decides that New York City life is too much for them and so they Read More

1/1/97
The Prosecutors

Synopsis: Grumpy, chain-smoking prosecuting attorney Ingrid Maynard (Stockard Channing) hasn't accepted a case since the accident that left her confined to a wheelchair. But when the husband of assistant DA Rachel Simone (Michelle Forbes) is killed in a robbery, Ingrid decides to return to the courtroom to Read More

1996
Edie & Pen

Actors: Stockard Channing, Jennifer Tilly, Scott Glenn, Beverly D'Angelo, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman who neglected her. Edie and Pen meet while leaving Read More

1996
The First Wives Club

Actors: Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton

Synopsis: Three women plot revenge on their two-timing husbands in this comedy. Brenda (Bette Midler), Elise (Goldie Hawn), and Annie (Diane Keaton) were close friends in college, but 27 years after graduation they've lost touch with each other, and it's not until a mutual friend of the three commits Read More

1996
Up Close & Personal

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan

Synopsis: A story about a career television journalist who eclipses her mentor, this drama's plot resembles that of A Star Is Born, and it shares the same screenwriters as those who penned the 1976 version of that film, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. It's based loosely on the real-life story of Read More

1996
Moll Flanders

Actors: Paul Hickey, Robin Wright Penn, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing, John Lynch, Aisling Corcoran

Synopsis: An orphaned young woman struggles to overcome a difficult childhood and her later experiences as a prostitute in this period drama set in 18th century London. Drawing only loose inspiration from the Daniel Dafoe novel that provided the film's title, writer-director Pen Densham creates a new story Read More

1996
Lily Dale

Actors: Tim Guinee, Stockard Channing, Mary Stuart Masterson, Sam Shepard, John Slattery

Synopsis: A production of Hallmark Hall of Fame that originally aired on the Showtime Cable Network, this family drama tells the moving tale of a 19 year-old boy's attempts to reconnect with his estranged family. The story is set in Texas, 1910. The boy is Horace Robedaux. His real father died when Read More

1996
An Unexpected Family

Actors: Stockard Channing, Stephen Collins, Christine Ebersole

Synopsis: In this drama, a career woman is forced to re-evaluate her fast-track life after her sister's young children come to live with her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Smoke

Actors: William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Forest Whitaker, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Victor Argo

Synopsis: A Brooklyn cigar shop is the setting for this drama from director Wayne Wang that interweaves the stories of several characters that have fractured family relationships in common. Harvey Keitel is Auggie Wren, poetic owner of the Brooklyn Cigar Company, a store that he considers the center of the Read More

1995
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: Patrick Swayze plays Vida Boheme, a classy and long-reigning drag queen. With his understudy Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), Vida wins a New York drag stage contest and an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollywood. But when Miss Chi Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) cries at having lost the contest Read More

1995
David's Mother

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Sam Waterston, Stockard Channing, Phylicia Rashad, Chris Sarandon

Synopsis: Kirstie Alley earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in this moving made-for-TV drama. She plays Sally Goodson, the devoted mother of autistic child David. Abandoned by her husband years before, Sally has sacrificed much for her son but has felt it in his best interest. One of the Read More

1994
Stonewall 25: Voices of Pride and Protest

1994
Six Degrees of Separation

Actors: Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Two socialites find their view of the world changed when a young man takes advantage of their preconceptions in this thoughtful comedy-drama. Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Read More

1993
Married to It

Actors: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this comedy/drama concerning three couples, thrown together by fate, who become friendly and help each other through their marriage difficulties. Claire (