Susan TyrrellFilmography

Masked and Anonymous

Actors: Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Penélope Cruz, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Luke Wilson

Synopsis: Enigmatic rock legend Bob Dylan stars as an enigmatic rock legend (talk about a casting coup!) in this purposefully eccentric satiric comedy. Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) is an unscrupulous concert promoter who has figured out a way to cash in on the feelings of doubt and uncertainty that Read More

Buddy Boy

Actors: Aidan Gillen, Emmanuelle Seigner, Susan Tyrrell, Mark Boone, Jr., Harry Groener

Synopsis: In this bizarre drama that would seem to have "cult item" written all over it, Francis (Aidan Gillen) is a severely introverted young man with a speech impediment who shares a shabby apartment with his bedridden mother, Sal (Susan Tyrrell). Francis has developed certain voyeuristic tendencies Read More

Relax ... It's Just Sex

Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Mitchell Anderson, Cynda Williams, Lori Petty, Serena Scott Thomas

Synopsis: Tara (Jennifer Tilly) hosts a dinner party. When she discusses the HIV-positive results of her lover's brother, others join in with their opinions on AIDS. Black artist Buzz (T.C. Carson), brought to the party as the date of Vincey (Mitchell Anderson), quickly becomes a twosome with Javi (Eddie Garcia Read More

Digital Man

Synopsis: Cyberpunk schlockmeister Phillip Roth directs this sci-fi action flick about cool explosions and bad cyborgs. When the army's latest brand of killer robots start killing the wrong people, a band of nubile coed soldiers get sent in to kick a little android keister. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Powder

Actors: Mary Steenburgen, Sean Patrick Flanery, Lance Henriksen, Jeff Goldblum, Brandon Smith

Synopsis: This unusual modern-day fable concerns a super-powered teenager who inspires nothing but hostility in the small-minded folk of his hometown. Sean Patrick Flanery stars as Jeremy Reed, nicknamed "Powder" because he is an albino. Powder has been living his entire 16 years in his grandparents' Read More

The Demolitionist

Actors: Nicole Eggert, Richard Grieco, Susan Tyrrell, Bruce Abbott, Sarah Douglas

Synopsis: Set in a future American metropolis, Metro City, this sci-fi-thriller features a policewoman heroine who like the hero in Robocop was brought back from the dead and turned into a super-human fighter. Unlike the aforementioned robot-man, however, she is brought back not with hardware, but with Read More

Motorama

Actors: Martha Quinn, Jordan Christopher Michael, John Diehl, Mary Woronov, Garrett Morris, Drew Barrymore, Meat Loaf, Flea

Synopsis: This black comedy offers a rather twisted version of the classic road movie, as it tells the story of a ten-year-old boy who is determined to win the "Motorama" road game, a promotional effort by a major gas station that promises winners 500 million dollars. In order to win, one simply has to Read More

Cry-Baby

Actors: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake

Synopsis: John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of rock & roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. Depp is pure charisma as a juvenile delinquent with a Read More

Rockula

Actors: Dean Cameron, Toni Basil, Tawny Fere, Thomas Dolby, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: This teen-age vampire suffers from an ancient curse preventing him from losing his virginity. The film features music from Bo Diddley who adds the rock to Rockula. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Far from Home

Actors: Matt Frewer, Drew Barrymore, Richard Masur, Anthony Rapp, Karen Austin, Andras Jones, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: Former child star and one-time scandal magnet Drew Barrymore had her first teenage role in this offbeat thriller with comic overtones. Charlie Cross (Matt Frewer) is vacationing with his 15-year-old daughter Joleen (Barrymore). Charlie and Joleen are stranded in an Arizona trailer park when they Read More

Tapeheads

Actors: John Cusack, Tim Robbins, Doug McClure, Connie Stevens, Clu Gulager, Katy Boyer

Synopsis: In this high-energy satire of the music biz, Ivan Alexov (John Cusack) and Josh Tager (Tim Robbins) lose their jobs as security guards, and they decide to start their own video production company. Their first gigs are less than inspiring, including a rappin' commercial for a chicken-and-waffle Read More

Big Top Pee-Wee

Actors: Paul Reubens, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino, Penelope Ann Miller, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: Paul Reubens's followup to the box-office hit Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is just as outrageous and cartoonish, though not as good. This time, child-man Pee-Wee runs a colorful farm, chock full of talking animals and outsized produce. On the morning after a tornado of Wizard of Oz dimensions, Pee-Wee Read More

The Underachievers

Actors: Edward Albert, Barbara Carrera, Michael Pataki, Susan Tyrrell, Mark Blankfield

Synopsis: Danny Warren (Edward Albert) is a former minor-league shortstop who becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this situation comedy. Investigating at a high-school adult-education class, he falls for the tempting teacher Katherine, played by the exotic Barbara Carrera. Danny forgets the reward of Read More

Windmills of the Gods

Actors: David Ackroyd, Michael Moriarty, Franco Nero, Jaclyn Smith

Synopsis: Windmills of the Gods was adapted for television by John Gay from a best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. Jaclyn Smith plays an American college professor, appointed US ambassador to Romania. While attending a peace conference, Jaclyn's life is placed in jeopardy by an all-powerful secret Read More

From a Whisper to a Scream

Actors: Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, Harry Caesar, Rosalind Cash

Synopsis: This horror anthology is hosted by Vincent Price and features a quartet of chilling stories, all of which took place in a single town that seems to inspire people to do horrendous things to each other. The stories contain scenes of graphic violence and considerable gore. The film is also known as Read More

The Chipmunk Adventure

Actors: Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., Janice Karman, Dody Goodman, Susan Tyrrell, Anthony de Longis

Synopsis: Join Alvin, Simon, and Theodore as they graduate from their weekly TV adventures to the big screen in the exciting, feature-length animated tale The Chipmunk Adventure. The three boys use a clever scheme with a tape recorder to trick their babysitter, Rebecca Miller, into letting them out of the Read More

Poker Alice

Actors: George Hamilton, Elizabeth Taylor, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: We've been told that Poker Alice, a Boston-bred lady of means who managed a wild-west gambling hall and bordello in the 1870s, was based on a real person. She certainly seems real as portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor in this made-for-TV film (Taylor's first). After winning her house of ill repute in a Read More

Thompson's Last Run

Synopsis: A pair of childhood friends meet again after one becomes a convict and the other a law man assigned to transport him to prison. Thompson's Last Run features Robert Mitchum and Wilford Brimley in the lead roles. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Christmas Star

Synopsis: Christmas Star is a two-hour whimsy assault, originally telecast December 14, 1986 on The Disney Sunday Movie. Ed Asner plays an escaped convict who adopts a stolen Santa Claus suit as a disguise. Several impressionable youngsters, believing Asner to be the genuine Santa, latch onto him. He Read More

If Tomorrow Comes

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1971 TV movie of the same name, the three-part CBS miniseries If Tomorrow Comes was based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. At the center of all the intrigue is an attractive pair of jewel thieves, rank amateur Tracy Whitney (Madolyn Smith), and slick Read More

MacGruder and Loud

Synopsis: A clandestine marriage between 2 police officers is kept from the department. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Avenging Angel

Actors: Betsy Russell, Rory Calhoun, Robert F. Lyons, Susan Tyrrell, Ossie Davis, Barry Pearl

Synopsis: Betsy Russell takes over as part-time prostitute Molly Stewart in this disappointing sequel to the surprisingly good Angel (1984). Old pals Rory Calhoun and Susan Tyrrell are along for the search for the killer of the cop who saved Molly's life in the first film, joined by street magician Johnny Read More

Flesh + Blood

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: When an attempted political coup in Northern Italy fails, most of the mercenaries hired by the coup leaders disperse. Not so Martin (Rutger Hauer), who intends to rob his duplicitous former employer Arnolfini (Fernando Hillbeck). Martin is able to raise his own army by using a stolen religious Read More

Jealousy

Actors: Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, Angie Dickinson stars in three separate vignettes as a woman whose life is dramatically affected by the emotion that gives the film its name. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Killers

Actors: Jack Kehoe, Raymond Mayo, Allan Migicovsky, Susanne Reed

Synopsis: Poet, novelist and screenwriter Charles Bukowski was famed for offering shockingly dark, nearly pornographic views of modern life. A disturbing independent film that has only been occasionally played at off-beat film festivals and paints a chilling portrait of how easily a slightly Read More

Angel

Actors: Cliff Gorman, Susan Tyrrell, Dick Shawn, Rory Calhoun, John Diehl

Synopsis: The original "honor student by day, hooker by night" melodrama, Angel stars Donna Wilkes in the title role. During the daylight hours, the 15-year-old Angel is known as Molly, a model prep school student. Devoid of parents, Molly must find some way to keep up the cash flow, so she hits the Read More

Revenge of the Sun Demon

Actors: Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson, Patrick Whyte, Del Courtney

Synopsis: The Hideous Sun Demon was a typically awful really low budget 1959 sci-fi monster movie which B-movie actor Robert Clarke produced, directed, and starred in. The current feature simply takes the original film and dubs in hip, funny, self-mocking dialogue to replace the old, stiff, self-conscious Read More

Fire and Ice

Actors: Susan Tyrrell, Maggie Roswell, William Ostrander, Stephen Mendel, Clare Nono

Synopsis: Ralph Bakshi's last stab at epic fantasy takes place shortly after the Ice Age. The evil queen Juliana (voice of Eileen O'Reill) plots to conquer the world and raises her son Nekron (Sean Hannon) as a master of sorcery and arcane mental powers. Together the two conquer the Ice Kingdom, and from Read More

Night Warning

Actors: Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Svenson, Marcia Lewis, Julia Duffy

Synopsis: Billy (Jimmy McNichol, Kristy's younger brother) knows something is wrong when he comes home and finds that his batty, sexually repressed Aunt Cheryl (Susan Tyrrell in a stellar performance), has ruthlessly murdered the TV repairman -- not because he was inept or overcharged, but because she was Read More

Fast-Walking

Actors: James Woods, Tim McIntire, Kay Lenz, Robert Hooks, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: James Woods plays "Fast-Walking" Miniver, a strikingly amoral prison guard, in this dark, hard-hitting comedy/drama. When not smoking dope or scaring up customers for Evie (Susan Tyrrell), the proprietor of the local house of prostitution, Fast-Walking tries to keep order in an Oregon prison. Read More

Liar's Moon

Actors: Matt Dillon, Cindy Fisher, Christopher Connelly, Hoyt Axton, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: Against the wishes of both families, a poor boy (Matt Dillon) and a wealthy banker's daughter (Cindy Fisher) elope, only to discover that their immaturity and incompatibility may be the downfall of their relationship. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Tales of Ordinary Madness

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell, Tanya Lopert

Synopsis: Ben Gazzara delivers a gutsy, four-barreled performance as skid-row poet and storyteller Charles Bukowski (rechristened Charles Serking onscreen) in Tales of Ordinary Madness, blackly comic Italian director Marco Ferreri's adaptation of Bukowski's roman à clef Erections, Ejaculations Read More

Midnight Lace

Synopsis: Like the 1960 theatrical feature of the same name, the made-for-TV Midnight Lace was inspired by Matilda Shouted Fire, a novel by Janet Green. Mary Crosby stars as Cathy Preston, the role originally essayed by Doris Day in the 1960 film, while Gary Frank steps into the old Rex Harrison role as Read More

Subway Riders

Actors: Robbie Coltrane, John Lurie, Charlene Kaleina, Cookie Mueller, Amos Poe

Synopsis: This detective drama was shot on location in New York City and chronicles the bloody wake of terror left by a murderous street saxophone player who hides out on the subway. The bizarre string of murders is investigated by a hard-bitten detective. Along the way he meets assorted New Wave scumbags. Read More

Loose Shoes

Actors: Lewis Arquette, Danny Dayton, Murphy Dunne, Howard Hesseman, Steve Landesberg

Synopsis: Preview trailers for movies not coming to a theater near you are collected in this satiric comedy. Loose Shoes is a sketch comedy which takes the form of a series of "coming attractions" for movies that don't happen to exist. The oddball trailers include the Billy Jack parody Billy Jerk Read More

Forbidden Zone

Actors: Herve Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Marie-Pascale Elfman, Viva

Synopsis: Oingo Boingo fans and midnight movie mavens will love this bizarre black-and-white feature packed with music, madness, and members of the Elfman clan. The story revolves around the Hercules family, who live in a house that just happens to hide a secret entrance to the Sixth Dimension in the Read More

Racquet

Actors: Bjorn Borg, Bobby Riggs, Bert Convy

Synopsis: Bert Convy is the lead fellow here who appears as a tennis pro who uses his fondness for matched points to his advantage as he plays stud-man to his wealthy female clients in order to gather funds enough for his own tennis club. This lame effort includes a cameo by tennis great Bjorn Borg and a Read More

Kojak: In Full Command

Synopsis: The final episode of Kojak features an impressive non-comic performance by Danny Thomas) as Howard Brocure, a hard-nosed, by-the-book police inspector who commandeers Kojak's investigation of an upsurge in mob violence. As the case progresses, Brocure turns out to be more hindrance than help, but Read More

The Lady of the House

Synopsis: Dyan Cannon stars in this film inspired by the true story of Sally Stanford, who rose from notoriety as the madam of a famous San Francisco brothel of the 1930s to winning election as the city's mayor in 1976. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Autre Homme Une Autre Chance

Actors: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell, Jennifer Warren

Synopsis: Claude Lelouch's Another Man, Another Chance is set in 1870. Fleeing from the Franco-Prussian war, Jeanne (Genevieve Bujold) and boyfriend Francis (Francis Huster) escape to the American west. Their course does not run smooth, and soon Jeanne is left alone to care for her baby. Meanwhile, American Read More

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Kathleen Quinlan, Ben Piazza, Lorraine Gary, Martine Bartlett, Darlene Craviotto

Synopsis: Without ever revealing the diagnosis, this film chronicles the inner life and outer circumstances of Deborah Blake (Kathleen Quinlan), a young mental patient. As the film opens, she is being accompanied by her subdued parents to yet another mental hospital. This one looks clean and cheerful, at Read More

Islands in the Stream

Actors: George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell, Richard Evans

Synopsis: After a parade of top-heavy blockbusters (Papillon, Nicholas and Alexandra), director Franklin J. Schaffner retreats, like the Hemingway character of the film, to peaceful tropical serenity in Islands in the Stream (based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel). George C. Scott plays Read More

Wizards

Synopsis: In this animated futuristic tale, a pair of twins must fight for domination of what is left of the world, the good man using the powers of magic in an attempt to save the Earth, and the evil twin taking advantage of the horrors of technology that again threaten to destroy everything. ~ Iotis Read More

9/30/55

Actors: Richard Thomas, Susan Tyrrell, Deborah Benson, Lisa Blount, Tom Hulce

Synopsis: This film, aired on television as 24 Hours of the Rebel, delves into the hero-worship aura that surrounded James Dean following his tragic death. This stars The Waltons' Richard Thomas (getting a break from his usual "goody-goody" roles), who, as character "Jimmy J," is stunned by Dean's death and Read More

Andy Warhol's Bad

Actors: Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell, Stefania Casini, Cyrinda Foxe

Synopsis: The final film released under the Andy Warhol moniker (which Warhol executive produced) is a much more polished affair than Flesh, Trash or Heat, but preserves the oddball wit and eccentric flair that made those films so memorable. Directed by Warhol film editor Jed Johnson, Andy Warhol's Bad Read More

The Killer Inside Me

Actors: Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Tisha Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: Stacy Keach plays Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff whose brutal childhood experiences have left him emotionally warped. Ford is prized by his community for his no-mercy treatment of criminals. But the danger that he will snap and begin killing indiscriminately is ever-present. Based on the novel by Jim Thompson Read More

Baretta: Double Image

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) goes undercover as a stevedore to investigate a series of dockside murders. Unfortunately, a waitress with a long-standing grudge against Baretta recognizes him. Will she blow the whistle on his cover, thereby putting both Tony and herself in jeopardy? Susan Tyrrell Read More

To Kill the King

Synopsis: To Kill the King is an obscure mid-1970s political intrigue film. It's so obscure, in fact, that if it hadn't been listed in TV Guide, it might have been written off as a fabrication. Filmed shortly after the Watergate debacle, the story contains several far-from-veiled references to that Read More

Catch My Soul

Actors: Richie Havens, Season Hubley, Lance Le Gault

Synopsis: Screenwriter John Good's rock & roll adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello is a real oddity and features some surprisingly good tunes. Set in the American Southwest, Othello is a wandering evangelist who happens onto Iago's remote commune. There he marries the lovely Desdemona much to the chagrin of Read More

Zandy's Bride

Actors: Gene Hackman, Liv Ullmann, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell, Samuel Bottoms

Synopsis: Based on Lillian Bos Ross' novel The Stranger and adapted by screenwriter Marc Norman 25 years before he would win the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for 1999's Shakespeare in Love (along with Tom Stoppard), Zandy's Bride is a romantic Western starring (Gene Hackman) as gruff rural rancher Read More

Fat City

Actors: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto

Synopsis: With a screenplay adapted by Leonard Gardner from his own novel, John Huston's drama examines the meager hopes and resigned dreams of small-time boxers. In limbo between retirement and his youthful prime, alcoholic farm laborer Tully (Stacy Keach) shacks up with fellow outcast Oma (Susan Tyrrell) Read More

Been Down So Long It Looks Like up to Me

Actors: Barry Primus

Synopsis: Richard Farina's late-1960s "alienation" novel Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me was given a belated, and somewhat anachronistic, screen treatment in 1971. Though set in 1958, the original novel spoke most loudly to the post-Beat Generation hippies of the next decade. The film spoke to no Read More

Shoot Out

Actors: Gregory Peck, Dawn Lyn, Robert F. Lyons

Synopsis: This western drama from the team that made True Grit -- director Henry Hathaway, screenwriter Marguerite Roberts. and producer Hal B. Wallis -- stars Gregory Peck as a gunfighter who served a seven-year stretch in prison after his partner turned on him during a bank robbery. Shortly after his Read More

Bonanza: Fallen Woman

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Susan Tyrrell, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: Hoss Cartwright's testimony results in a prison term for the husband of alcoholic dance-hall girl Jill Conway (Susan Tyrell). Motivated by a combination of resentment and desperation, Jill leaves her son Petey (Johnny Lee) in Hoss' care. At first prepared to adopt the abandoned boy, Hoss opts Read More

The Steagle

Actors: Richard Benjamin

Synopsis: In this comedy, Harold Weiss (Richard Benjamin) is a professor at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when a nuclear holocaust seemed imminent. Rather than sit around waiting to die, he decides to drive from Long Island to Los Angeles, taking in such sights as Las Vegas along the way. As Read More