Tim Matheson Filmography

Redline

Actors: Nathan Phillips, Nadia Bjorlin, Angus MacFadyen, Tim Matheson, Eddie Griffin

Synopsis: Eddie Griffin and Nathan Phillips put the pedal to the metal in stunt coordinator-turned-director Andy Cheng's supercharged auto thriller. As a serious collection of speed freaks gather to hit the streets in hopes of winning $24 million, every rule is broken and the law simply doesn't have enough Read More

Don't Come Knocking

Actors: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley

Synopsis: Director Wim Wenders and writer Sam Shepard, who collaborated on the award-winning film Paris, Texas, once again join forces for this dark drama of a man trying to turn over a new leaf late in life. Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) is a veteran actor who has been a popular Western star since the Read More

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D

Synopsis: Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on the surface of the moon -- are paid homage in this documentary. Using newsreel footage, rare NASA photographs, and digitally animated re-creations, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon Read More

Justice League Unlimited: Ultimatum

Actors: Scott Rummel, James Sie, Gregg Rainwater, Tim Matheson, Grey DeLisle

Synopsis: Following up the events in the previous episode "Fearful Symmetry," "Ultimatum" probes further into the secret government conspiracy against the Justice Leaguers. The Ultimen, a newly formed and very popular superhero group led by the mysterious Max Lord, offer a helping hand to the Justice Read More

Judas

Actors: Johnathon Schaech, Jonathan Scarfe, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Explore the origins of one of the Bible's most crushing betrayals as Judas betrays the very man who seeks to free his people from the grip of the Romans. A lower-class wine-seller who resents the brutal treatment of his people by the occupying Romans, Judas Iscariot is ecstatic to learn that a Read More

Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart

Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Tim Matheson, Joanna Cassidy, Jude Ciccolella, Mauralea Austin

Synopsis: The casting of Cybill Shepherd as billionaire home-economics doyenne Martha Stewart in this made-for-TV biopic allegedly grew from a quip made by Today Show host Matt Lauer, that only three people were qualified to portray Martha: Shepherd, Candice Bergen, and Robin Williams (!). The film follows Read More

Unseen + Untold: Animal House

Actors: Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert, Karen Allen, Bruce McGill, John Landis

Synopsis: On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the release of the classic "raunch comedy" National Lampoon's Animal House, the Spike TV cable channel offered this behind-the-scenes special on the making of the film. Amidst a sea of anecdotes concerning the mercurial behavior of the film's star, John Belushi Read More

National Lampoon's Van Wilder

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: The "National Lampoon" franchise is resurrected for another politically incorrect collegiate romp with this R-rated gross-out sex comedy. National Lampoon's Van Wilder revolves around the exploits of its title character (Ryan Reynolds), a seventh-year senior who's made it his goal in life to help Read More

The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay

Actors: Tim Matheson, Sean Young, Kristen Bell, Ed Asner, Bug Hall

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Lake Havasu, AZ, this made-for-cable domestic drama stars Tim Matheson as Al Dodge, a burned-out intellectual working as a handyman and living in a rundown trailer in the middle of the Arizona desert. Some 15 years earlier, Al had abandoned his family and is now living the Read More

Breaking News [TV Series]

Synopsis: Created by actor Ken Olin and Rhonda L. Moore, Breaking News was set within the walls of I-24, a round-the-clock TV news network. Dedicated to both getting the truth and scooping the competition, the network is the fiefdom of superaggressive news division president Peter Kozyck (Clancy Brown). Read More

Moms on Strike

Actors: Faith Ford, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Moms on Strike stars Faith Ford as Pam Harris, a working mother who barely has time to catch a breath between her professional work and her household duties. When her husband Alan (Tim Matheson) and her kids thoughtlessly forget her birthday, Pam rebels, refusing to do any Read More

Wolf Lake

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tim Matheson, Graham Greene, Sharon Lawrence, Scott Bairstow

Synopsis: Due to the round-the-clock coverage of the World Trade Center tragedy, the beginning of the fall 2001 TV season was delayed on all of the major networks. The first "new" primetime series to be unveiled was CBS's Wolf Lake, a quirky supernatural effort in the tradition of The X-Files and Twin Read More

Navigating the Heart

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Tim Matheson, David Andrews, Tantoo Cardinal, Lynda Boyd

Synopsis: This made-for-cable romantic drama was based on the book Fishing with John by Manhattan journalist Edith Iglauer. Jaclyn Smith stars as Iglauer, who is on assignment in British Columbia to write a flippantly satiric piece about the Canadian salmon industry. A "meet cute" scene unites Edith with Read More

Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Tim Matheson, Tom Skerritt, Frances Fisher, Andrew McCarthy

Synopsis: The life of one of the most famous American women of the last half of the 20th century receives yet another retelling in this made-for-TV drama. Raised by a harsh, domineering mother (Frances Fisher) and a charming but unfaithful (and alcoholic) father (Fred Ward), Jacqueline Bouvier (Joanne Read More

Chump Change

Actors: Tim Matheson, Traci Lords, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara

Synopsis: Actor and playwright Stephen Burrows makes his directorial debut with this independent comedy that takes a witty look at the downside of working in the movie business. Steve (Burrows) is a writer, actor, and comic who years ago left his hometown of Milwaukee, WI, for the bright lights of Hollywood Read More

Sharing the Secret

Actors: Alison Lohman

Synopsis: By rights, child psychologist Dr. Nina Moss (Mare Winningham) should be pleased and proud that her daughter Beth (Alison Lohman) is a slim, eternally upbeat overachiever. But Nina suspects that all is not well with Beth--and she's right. Desperate to be accepted by her family and friends, and Read More

The West Wing: 20 Hours in L.A.

Actors: Dule Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Tim Matheson, Elisabeth Moss, Jorja Fox, Marlee Matlin

Synopsis: While President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) is in Hollywood for a fundraiser hosted by politically active homosexual movie mogul Ted Marcus (Bob Balaban), Leo (John Spencer) is back in Washington politicking Vice President Hoynes (Tim Matheson) to vote the White House's position on an important tax Read More

Second Honeymoon

Synopsis: Married for twenty years, Maggie (Roma Downey) and George (Tim Matheson) have drifted apart and are on the verge of divorce. To prevent this, the couple's kids (and their respective parents) bankroll a second honeymoon vacation on a lush tropical island. But though Maggie and George struggle Read More

The Story of Us

Actors: Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Matheson, Rob Reiner, Rita Wilson, Paul Reiser

Synopsis: Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this romantic comedy as Ben and Katie Jordan, a couple who have been married for fifteen years. They have two great kids, a nice home, and a comfortable life, but somewhere down the line, the spark went out of their marriage, and they find that they don't Read More

In the Company of Spies

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Berenger, Ron Silver, Alice Krige

Synopsis: Tom Berenger stars in this made-for-cable TV political thriller as Kevin Jefferson, a restaurant owner and retired CIA agent who's recruited back into action when a former colleague is captured by North Korean authorities, who are bent on using their valuable prisoner in a blackmail scheme Read More

The West Wing: Five Votes Down

Actors: Dule Hill, Michael McGuire, Thom Barry, Sara Botsford, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: The staff must spend some political capital as the president is five votes short on a gun-control bill being voted on in the House. They must bargain with members of Congress, as well as Vice President John Hoynes (Tim Matheson), in order to get the needed "yea" votes. Communications Director Toby Read More

The West Wing: Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Actors: Lisa Edelstein, Tim Matheson, Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Synopsis: Press Secretary C.J. Cregg (Allison Janney) keeps a dispute between President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) and Vice President John Hoynes (Tim Matheson) from becoming a run-away story in the media, while Sam Seaborn continues to see a high-priced call girl (Lisa Edelstein) despite the warnings of nearly Read More

At the Mercy of a Stranger

Synopsis: Habitually abused by her arrogant surgeon husband Thomas (Stephen Lang), successful realtor Elizabeth Cooper (Joanna Kerns) has decided to get a divorce. Shortly after this decision, Elizabeth is in conference with a new client, John Davis (Tim Matheson)--who stops her short by announcing that he Read More

Forever Love

Actors: Reba McEntire, Tim Matheson, Bess Armstrong, Heather Stephens, Scott Foley

Synopsis: In this TV movie "suggested by" a real-life incident, wife and mother Lizzie Brooks (Reba McEntire) is comatose in a hospital as McEntire's tune Forever Love provides an accompaniment to the flashback: After Lizzie meets Alex (Tim Matheson), a romance develops. They marry, have a daughter (Heather Stephens Read More

A Very Unlucky Leprechaun

Actors: Warwick Davis, Tim Matheson, Lisa Thornhill

Synopsis: In this comic fantasy for the family, 9-year-old Molly Wilson (Danielle Lombardi and Stephanie Lombardi) is relocated to Ireland when her father Howard (Tim Matheson) inherits an estate in the Old Sod. However, the Wilsons soon learn their new home has earned the nickname "Misfortune Mansion," as Read More

Deadly Game

Actors: Ryan De Boer, Tim Matheson, Carol Alt

Synopsis: A boy who's looking for trouble finds a lot more than he counted on in this action-comedy. Nathan (Ryan DeBoer) is a 12-year-old kid with a smart mouth and a bit too much attitude for his own good. Not happy at home, Nathan runs away and his parents report him missing to the police; when Nathan Read More

Buried Alive II

Crew: Director

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Stephen Caffrey, Tracey Needham, Tim Matheson, Brian Libby

Synopsis: This made-for-cable sequel to the 1990 TV-movie thriller Buried Alive picks up where the earlier film leaves off, with the death of the sheriff who solved the mystery in the original. Old Sam has left his money (a hefty sum indeed) to his niece Laura (Ally Sheedy), who is married to a no-account Read More

Sleeping with the Devil

Synopsis: Professional nurse Rebecca Dubrovich (Shannen Doherty) is swept off her feet by charming millionaire Dick Strang (Tim Matheson), and the two begin a passionate romance. Only when it is too late does Rebecca discover that Strang has, to put it mildly, a dark side: He's a bigamist, a control freak Read More

Black Sheep

Actors: Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Unfunny slapstick and lowbrow humor abounds in this weak comedy featuring Saturday Night Live alumni Chris Farley and David Spade. Handsome, smooth-talking Al Donnelly has everything going for him. A politician, he is engaged in a heated gubernatorial race with the feisty Governor Tracy, a tough Read More

A Very Brady Sequel

Actors: Shelley Long, Gary Cole, Tim Matheson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Christine Taylor

Synopsis: Like its lively predecessor, The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), this mild comic send-up takes its characters and situations from the popular family sitcom of the 1970s, The Brady Bunch. Set in the '90s, it is filled with in-joke references to American pop culture. However, one need not be familiar with Read More

Buried Secrets

Actors: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Tim Matheson, Kelly Rutherford, Erika Flores, Channon Roe

Synopsis: In this haunting made-for-TV drama, a young woman is visited by the troubled ghost of a young girl and asked to capture the person who killed the girl's mother by throwing her off a cliff. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Holiday for Love

Synopsis: Rising business executive Jake Peterson (Tim Matheson) is given a make-or-break assignment when he is sent to a small town for the purpose of severely downsizing the local tractor factory. Upon his arrival, Jake is mistaken by the townsfolk as the man sent to save rather than destroy their Read More

Twilight Man

Actors: Tim Matheson, Dean Stockwell, L. Scott Caldwell

Synopsis: In this high-tech psychological thriller, Tim Matheson plays Jordan Cooper, a college professor and successful author whose life appears to be just the way he'd like. However, one day he goes to the doctor for his annual checkup and discovers all of his computerized medical records have been Read More

An Unfinished Affair

Actors: Jennie Garth, Tim Matheson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Peter Facinelli, Michael Fairman

Synopsis: In this drama, a husband's moment of indiscretion has nearly catastrophic consequences when his mistress refuses to accept that their affair is over. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fast Company

Tails You Live, Heads You're Dead

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this chilling thriller, an ordinary man's life takes an extraordinary turn for the worst after he finds himself caught in the tangled web of a manipulative mass murderer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Breach of Conduct

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Peter Coyote, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Tom Verica, Beth Toussaint, Keith Amos

Synopsis: This made-for-cable movie tells the story of a military wife in jeopardy. Tom Verica stars as Lt. Ted Lutz, an Army soldier who has been transferred to a Utah base. When power-hungry commanding officer Col. Andrew Case (Peter Coyote) develops an interest in Lutz' wife Helen (Courtney Read More

While Justice Sleeps

Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Tim Matheson, Karis Bryant, Dion Anderson, Robyn Stevan

Synopsis: Upon learning that her daughter was sexually attacked by a family friend, a grieving widow adds rage to the flood of emotions threatening to drive her to madness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dying to Love You

Synopsis: Tim Matheson stars in this made-for-TV movie based on a true story. Roger Paulson (Matheson) is a divorcee who wants to start dating again. Roger thinks he's found the perfect woman, but he learns she's been keeping a few secrets from him -- some of which have deadly consequences. Dying to Love Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 1

Synopsis: This film noir style, made-for-TV movie contains three parts, each based on stories by three different authors (Jim Thompson, Cornell Woolrich, and James Elroy). It looks as if a con-artist (Peter Gallagher) has finally met someone who can pull the wool over his eyes in "The Frightening Frammis." Read More

Harmful Intent

Actors: Tim Matheson, Emma Samms, Robert Pastorelli, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: Following the death of a pregnant woman undergoing routine surgery, an anesthesiologist is falsely accused of drug abuse and charged with murder. Desperate to prove his innocence, the doctor escapes and quietly launches his own investigation into the tragedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Relentless: Mind of a Killer

Actors: Tim Matheson, Alberta Watson, Giancarlo Esposito, Claudia Christian, Kurt Fuller

Synopsis: After a patient murders his wife, a distraught criminal psychologist resigns from his profession. But when police present him with a puzzling murder, he goes back into practice to help solve the crime and in so doing, comes to terms with his own terrible tragedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Going Underground

Synopsis: Originally broadcast as a prime-time telemovie in 1993, Going Underground re-explores a thematic landscape charted on the big screen by Sleeping with the Enemy (1991). Joanna Kerns (Cross My Heart, Growing Pains) is Maryanne Walker-Tate, suburban housewife to Daniel (Tim Matheson) and mother of Read More

Those Bedroom Eyes

Actors: Mimi Rogers, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: William (Tim Matheson) is a Harvard psychology professor who is having a hard time dealing with life after the death of his wife when he meets a beautiful woman named Ali (Mimi Rogers). William and Ali strike up a relationship, and he finds the days easier to face. However, she seems oddly Read More

Trial and Error

Actors: Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Tim Matheson plays a zealous prosecutor named Peter Hudson in the made-for-cable thriller Trial and Error. After sending a petty criminal to death row, Hudson pursues a political career, eventually becoming attorney general. Just before he is to be nominated for Lieutenant Governor, the criminal Read More

Drop Dead Fred

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Rik Mayall, Marsha Mason, Tim Matheson, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: Phoebe Cates stars in this bizarre comedy that wants to be the kind of stylish comic fable the likes of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure but ends up looking like a shabby burlesque about schizophrenia. Cates is Elizabeth, who has recently separated from her philandering husband Read More

Sometimes They Come Back

Actors: Tim Matheson, Brooke Adams, William Sanderson

Synopsis: This adaptation of Stephen King's thriller is about a man who returns to his hometown after 27 years. Soon he is tormented by ghosts of the dead teens who killed his brother years before. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Quicksand: No Escape

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable thriller, the idyllic life of an upstanding architect is nearly destroyed when his partner attempts to corrupt a city official. When murder ensues, the architect must evade the prying eye of a sleazeball detective. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Woman Who Sinned

Actors: Susan Lucci, Tim Matheson, Michael Dudikoff, John Vernon, Christine Belford

Synopsis: She sure did. Susan Lucci brings her daytime-drama flailing gestures to the prime time TV-movie scene in this melodramatic farrago. She plays a married woman who for the first and only time in her life succumbs to the charms of another man. Accused of murder, Lucci's only alibi is her adulterous Read More

Blind Fury

Crew: Co-producer, Producer

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn, Lisa Blount, Noble Willingham, Meg Foster

Synopsis: Rutger Hauer plays a blinded Vietnam vet who also happens to be an expert swordsman. Twenty years after the war, Hauer finds himself waist-deep in gangsters when he tries to help the son (Brandon Call) of an old army buddy. Along the way, he reforms an ex-comrade in arms (Terrance O'Quinn) who was Read More

Solar Crisis

Actors: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield, Tetsuya Bessho

Synopsis: A group of scientists are sent to the sun in 2050 to stop a giant solar flare from destroying the Earth. As the team nears the sun, some members of the team begin to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage their mission. Solar Crisis has very strong special effects and fine acting, making it an Read More

Buried Alive

Actors: Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Produced for cable TV, this pedestrian thriller (also known as Till Death Do Us Part) purports to be a riff on Edgar Allen Poe's "The Premature Burial" but actually bears more of a resemblance to Diabolique. It stars Tim Matheson as a cheated-upon husband who can't stay down after his wife's (Jennifer Jason Leigh Read More

Joshua's Heart

Synopsis: The crush felt by a young boy for his father's girlfriend creates heartbreak when the adults call the relationship off. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Speed Zone

Actors: John Candy, Peter Boyle, Donna Dixon, Matt Frewer, Melody Anderson, Eugene Levy, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: A sheriff struggles vainly to keep the annual Cannonball Run cross-country race from taking place in this comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Little White Lies

Actors: Ann Jillian, Tim Matheson, Suzie Plakson

Synopsis: Little White Lies is a frenetic TV-movie hark bark to the "screwball comedies" of yore. Ann Jillian plays a just-getting-by Philadelphia policewoman who poses as a wealthy CEO because she's sick of "lady cop" jokes. Tim Matheson portrays a rich doctor who poses as a poverty-stricken orderly Read More

The Littlest Victims

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the career of pediatric immunologist James Oleske who was one of the first doctors to recognize the AIDS virus in children. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1969

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern, Mariette Hartley, Winona Ryder

Synopsis: Ernest Thompson, the playwright responsible for the Pulitzer Prize winning On Golden Pond, makes his directorial debut with 1969. Kiefer Sutherland plays a draft-age youth who undergoes an epiphany when one of his friends is killed in Vietnam. Sutherland's subsequent antiwar stance causes a great Read More

Bay Coven

Actors: Tim Matheson, Pamela Sue Martin, Woody Harrelson, Susan Ruttan, Barbara Billingsley

Synopsis: This slow-moving occult thriller has Pamela Sue Martin and hubbie Tim Matheson menaced by a coven of witches when they move to an island off the coast of Massachusetts. Director Carl Schenkel -- who went on to make the interesting Knight Moves -- does the best he can with a tedious script and a Read More

Warm Hearts, Cold Feet

Actors: Tim Matheson, Margaret Colin, Elizabeth Ashley, Barry Corbin, George DiCenzo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a journalist and her husband, an editor, present their very different thoughts on her pregnancy in their respective columns and become a big hit with their fans. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blind Justice

Actors: Tim Matheson, Mimi Kuzyk, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Tom Atkins, Lisa Eichhorn

Synopsis: Blind Justice is a fact-based TV movie starring Tim Matheson, here made to look "normal" with glasses and mustache. The innocent Matheson is fingered by witnesses as an armed robber/kidnapper/rapist. For the next 14 months, his life is hell. Too much circumstantial evidence surrounds the case, and Read More

Fletch

Actors: Chevy Chase, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: Chevy Chase added a classic comic hero to the film landscape with Fletch, one of his few truly popular star vehicles in a famously misguided post-Saturday Night Live career. Chase plays Irwin M. Fletcher, known to everyone as Fletch, a Los Angeles Lakers-loving investigative reporter with a Read More

Obsessed With a Married Woman