Susan DeyFilmography

L.A. Law: The Movie

Actors: Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: This two-hour TV movie served as a reunion for the cast of L.A. Law, a popular NBC legal series which originally aired from 1987 to 1994. Virtually all of the series' regulars were back on the job, with the noteworthy exception of Jimmy Smits. Most of the story takes place within the walls of the Read More

Blue River

Actors: Jerry O'Connell

Synopsis: The rocky relationship between two brothers is told in flashbacks in this made-for-television coming-of-age drama from Hallmark Entertainment. Based on the novel by Ethan Canin, a long-lost brother (Jerry O'Connell) comes back to his dysfunctional family and unearths his younger brother's mixed Read More

Beyond Betrayal

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Susan Dey

Synopsis: A woman lives in fear as she hides from her abusive husband in this made-for-television thriller. Susan Dey stars as Joanna Matthews, a woman who lives under an assumed name in order to hide from her husband Bradley Matthews (Richard Dean Anderson). A well-liked cop, Matthews has a dark side that Read More

Lies and Lullabies

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Allyce Beasley, Guy Boyd, Tim Kelleher, Piper Laurie, Ace Mask, Andy Romano, Lorraine Toussaint, Kathleen York, A.J. Johnson, Susan Dey

Synopsis: Christina (Susan Dey) is a cocaine addict in a tumultuous relationship with an equally drug-addicted boyfriend. When she becomes pregnant, the baby is born not only prematurely but with the chemical dependency of its mother. Now Christina is in a fight to make her life clean and stable so that Read More

Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica

Actors: Susan Dey, Michael Ontkean, Amanda Plummer, David Keith, Anna Ferguson

Synopsis: In this fact-based made-for-television movie, a little girl finds herself a pawn in a bitter custody battle between her adoptive parents and her biological parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Love, Lies and Lullabies

Actors: Susan Dey, Lorraine Toussaint, D.W. Moffett, Piper Laurie, Kathleen York

Synopsis: When a rebellious young woman's cocaine habit results in an addicted premature baby, authorities whisk the infant away. Devastated, the young mother realizes that she will have to prove herself worthy and capable of motherhood and so sets out to clean up her act. Unfortunately, it may be too Read More

Saturday Night Live: Susan Dey

Actors: Susan Dey, C+C Music Factory

Synopsis: This 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Susan Dey and features musical guest C+C Music Factory. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Bed of Lies

Actors: Susan Dey, Chris Cooper, G.W. Bailey

Synopsis: When a poor waitress shoots her abusive husband, she is forced to battle the courts for custody of her children while waiting for a verdict on her trial for murder of her husband. Based on a true story, it does a credible job in the depiction of the abusive relationship but some of the impact is Read More

I Love You Perfect

Crew: Co-producer

Synopsis: A misdiagnosis of a curable disease tests the bonds of love between a couple in this true story drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

That's Adequate

Actors: Tony Randall, James Coco, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Ina Balin

Synopsis: Fans of movie industry satire will want to see That's Adequate, an all-star production which spoofs the popular series of documentary films honoring MGM's musical comedies, That's Entertainment. Narrated by Tony Randall, this mock-history chronicles the film output of the second-rate "Adequate Read More

The Trouble with Dick

Actors: Tom Villard, Susan Dey, Elaine Giftos, Elizabeth Gorcey, David Clennon

Synopsis: Though a young sci-fi writer suffers from a bad case of writer's block, he does not seem to have a problem finding someone to date; he is involved with his landlady and her daughter. This low-budget comedy is the feature debut of writer and director, Gary Walkow. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Angel in Green

Synopsis: In Angel in Green, an unlikely alliance between a Jesuit missionary and a trained-for-combat Green Beret trooper is formed to help protect the island natives from insurgent-spawned violence. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Echo Park

Actors: Susan Dey, Tom Hulce, Michael Bowen, Christopher Walker, Shirley Jo Finney

Synopsis: This bittersweet comedy looks at the denizens of Echo Park, a decaying section of Los Angeles popular with struggling actors and musicians, largely because of its (relatively) low rents. May Greer (Susan Dey) is a single mother and aspiring actress who makes ends meet by tending bar (the most Read More

L.A. Law [TV Series]

Synopsis: Though the series proper debuted on Friday, October 3, 1986, L.A. Law was heralded by a two-hour TV movie, which aired Monday, September 15. The Steven Bochco production gets off to a good start, with no fewer than three cases resolved within the first installment. We first meet law-firm partner Read More

Love Leads the Way

Actors: Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: This made-for-Disney drama is the fact-based account of Morris Frank (Timothy Bottoms), who, during the 1930s, trained America's first seeing-eye dog. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Sunset Limousine

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy an unemployed stand-up comedian is tossed out by his girl friend and so gets a job driving a limo. He is still determined to win her back, and nothing, not even his inadvertent involvement with two hit men, will stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Malibu

Actors: George Hamilton, Ann Jillian, Richard Mulligan, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: Malibu is a two-part, four-hour adaptation of William Murray's best-selling novel. William Atherton and Susan Dey play a green-as-grass married couple from Milwaukee who take a vacation in Malibu. Amidst the elite and their million-dollar beach houses, Atherton starts up an affair with divorcee Valerie Perrine Read More

The Gift of Life

Synopsis: The Gift of Life is a non-sensational study of surrogate pregnancy. Susan Dey stars as Joleen Sutton, a woman with a husband and two kids who agrees to be artificially inseminated on behalf of another woman. Since the surrogate mother concept is somewhat cloudy on a legal basis, Joleen faces Read More

Looker

Actors: Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Dorian Harewood, Tim Rossovich

Synopsis: This fun, silly thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton manages to combine the dramatic murders of beautiful models, a secret conspiracy to use TV commercials for mind-control, and an unusual seeing-eye device which makes the wearer invisible. Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts (Albert Read More

The Comeback Kid

Synopsis: Made for television, a former professional baseball player (John Ritter) coaches a team of misfits to the little-league crown. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Little Women

Actors: Meredith Baxter-Birney, Susan Dey, Eve Plumb, William Shatner, Anne Dusenberry

Synopsis: The third filming of Louisa May Alcott's novel is this made-for-TV effort, which follows the hardships faced by the March family during the Civil War. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

First Love

Actors: William Katt, Susan Dey, John Heard, Beverly D'Angelo, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: It's hardly likely that anyone will confuse 1977's First Love with the 1939 Deanna Durbin musical of the same name. In the earlier film, Durbin received her first screen kiss from Robert Stack. In the 1977 film, no one stops at kissing. College boy Elgin (William Katt) falls for coed Caroline (Susan Dey Read More

Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night

Actors: Natasha Ryan

Synopsis: Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night stars Susan Dey as a young mother with a history of mistreating her 3 year old daughter. Ms. Dey's erratic behavior is rooted in her own unhappy childhood and her failed marriage. Tricia O'Neil plays the doctor who endeavors to help both Dey and her daughter Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Thrill Killers, Part 1

Synopsis: The two-part opener of Streets of San Francisco's fifth and final season marks a major transition, as SFPD homicide detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) loses his longtime partner Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) and gains a new one, athletic young inspector Dan Robbins (Richard Hatch). But before Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Thrill Killers, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Streets of San Francisco's two-part Season Five opener, a band of urban revolutionaries continue to hold an entire jury hostage on a ship, threatening to kill them one by one unless the group's leaders are released from prison. The tension mounts as the first hostage is Read More

The Captive: The Longest Drive II

Synopsis: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, and Susan Dey star in this TV-movie follow-up to the western The Quest. Russell and Matheson play brothers out to rescue their sister from American Indians. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

Cage Without a Key

Synopsis: Susan Dey inaugurated her long and successful campaign to shuck her Partridge Family image in the made-for-TV Cage Without a Key. Dey plays a teenager mistakenly convicted for murder (some mistake!) She is sentenced to a grim woman's penal institution straight out of a Linda Blair movie. As she Read More

The Partridge Family: Season 04

Actors: Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Brian Forster

Synopsis: The fourth and final season of The Partridge Family finds the familiar players still in their familiar roles: Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge, widowed mom and lead singer of the musical Partridge aggregation; David Cassidy (by now a full-fledged teen idol) as oldest son Keith Partridge; Susan Dey Read More

Terror on the Beach

Synopsis: Terror on the Beach stars Dennis Weaver and Estelle Parsons as the parents of a family vacationing on the shores of California. A gang of vicious, marauding teenagers invade the campsite and proceed to make the family's life hell. Weaver resists giving into violence until the fierce climax, where Read More

Skyjacked

Actors: Kelley Miles, Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain

Synopsis: Sky Terror is the reissue title for Skyjacked, a 1972 MGM all-star adventure based on a novel by David Harper. Charlton Heston mans the controls of a Los Angeles-bound commercial airliner which is hijacked to Russia by an unknown miscreant. Even when the skyjacker, revealed to be passenger James Brolin Read More

The Partridge Family: Season 03

Actors: Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Brian Forster

Synopsis: That popular singing aggregation the Partridge Family -- mom Shirley (Shirley Jones), sons Keith (David Cassidy), Danny (Danny Bonaduce), and Chris (Brian Foster), and daughters Laurie (Susan Dey) and Tracy (Suzanne Crough) -- is back for more music and mirth in season three of The Partridge Family Read More

The Partridge Family: Season 02

Actors: Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Brian Forster

Synopsis: Season two of The Partridge Family is significant for two reasons: number one, the role of Chris Patridge, played during season one by Jeremy Gelbwaks, is taken over by Brian Foster, who would remain with the series until its cancellation two years later; number two, the series' theme song, "When Read More

The Partridge Family: Season 01

Actors: Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Jeremy Gelbwaks

Synopsis: Investigating the strange noises coming from her garage, widow Shirley Partridge (Shirley Jones) discovers her five children -- Keith (David Cassidy), Laurie (Susan Dey), Danny (Danny Bonaduce), Chris (Jeremy Gelbwaks), and Tracy (Suzanne Crough) -- performing an impromptu rock concert, complete Read More

The Partridge Family [TV Series]

Actors: Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Jeremy Gelbwaks

Synopsis: Loosely inspired by the career of the real-life family singing group the Cowsills, the ABC sitcom The Partridge Family starred Shirley Jones as Shirley Partridge, widowed mother of five musically inclined children. Almost by accident, Shirley began singing with her kids during an impromptu garage Read More