Timothy Busfield Filmography

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip [TV Series]

Actors: Matthew Perry, Bradley Whitford, Amanda Peet, Steven Weber, Sarah Paulson, D.L. Hughley, Nathan Corddry, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: One of the two NBC series debuting in the fall of 2006 which took place backstage at a Saturday Night Live-style comedy show (the other was 30 Rock), Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was the brainchild of The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin. This weekly, hour-long dramedy concerned itself with the Read More

Entourage: Blue Balls Lagoon

National Security

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield, Robinne Lee, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: Adversaries become wary allies in this free-wheeling action comedy. Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence), escalating Read More

Dead In a Heartbeat

Synopsis: Seattle bomb-squad operative Lt. Tom Royko (Judge Reinhold) forms an uneasy alliance with brilliant but aloof heart surgeon Dr. Gillian Hayes (Penelope Ann Miller) to investigate a bizarre series of events, wherein three of Hayes' former patients have literally exploded. The culprit is a Read More

Lizzie McGuire: Come Fly With Me

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Eternal nonconformist Gordo (Adam Lamberg) has adopted the dress and attitude of Frank Sinatra and the "Rat Pack." His friends Lizzie (Hilary Duff) and Miranda (Lalaine) are quite charmed by Gordo's new persona -- as are the rest the students at Hillridge, who soon begin showing up garbed in Read More

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

Sports Night: The Local Weather

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Still grappling with his recent psychiatric visits, Dan (Josh Charles) decides he'll skip his next visit with Dr. Abby Jacobs (Jayne Brook), but instead goes to her office and rattles off his day's highlights for the full length of his appointment. Later, back in the studio, he and the rest of the Read More

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

The West Wing: Celestial Navigation

Actors: Dule Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: This episode of The West Wing is structured as a flashback while Josh (Bradley Whitford) addresses a college class on the day-to-day workings of the White House. Toby (Richard Schiff) and Sam (Rob Lowe) must travel to Connecticut in order to smooth over troubles when Bartlet's (Martin Sheen) Read More

The West Wing: Take Out the Trash Day

Actors: Dule Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: While Josh (Bradley Whitford) and Sam (Rob Lowe) deal with the political fallout from the attacks on Leo's (John Spencer) previous addictions, Toby (Richard Schiff) matches wits with elected officials who have attempted to stifle the Public Broadcasting Corporation. The entire staff must figure Read More

Wanted

Actors: Michael Sutton, Tracey Gold, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: A petty thief goes on the run after whacking a mob boss, and finds himself taking refuge in a Catholic boys home. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The West Wing: A Proportional Response

Actors: Dule Hill, John Amos, Kathryn Joosten, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) is furious about a plane carrying his personal physician being downed in the Middle East. After initially requesting a retaliatory attack that would kill a great many people, Bartlet's military advisors try to convince him to take a more cautionary maneuver. Read More

The West Wing: In Excelsis Deo

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

Synopsis: As the holiday season approaches, Toby (Richard Schiff) attempts to arrange a suitable burial for a homeless Korean War veteran who died in the cold. Sam (Rob Lowe) and Josh (Bradley Whitford) attempt to extract information that would be embarrassing to political rivals from Sam's high-priced call Read More

The Darklings

Synopsis: The fact that Tippi Hedren is cast as the grandmother of the protagonist is hardly the only Hitchcock reference in the made-for-cable thriller The Darklings. While bedridden with a case of mono, teenager C.J. (Ryan DeBoer) glances out his window, and sees--or thinks he sees--next-door neighbor Read More

The West Wing: Enemies

Actors: Dule Hill, Elisabeth Moss, Kathryn Joosten, Allison Smith, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: Former flames Josh (Bradley Whitford) and Mandy (Moira Kelly) argue the merits of allowing an economic bill to pass through Congress even though political opponents have made an addition that would upset the pro-environment President Bartlett (Martin Sheen). C.J. (Allison Janey) must attempt to Read More

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

The Souler Opposite

Actors: Christopher Meloni, Janel Moloney, Timothy Busfield, John Putch, Allison Mackie

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, LA stand-up comic Barry (Christopher Meloni) and dentist Robert (Timothy Busfield) are longtime buddies. Barry has a rocky relationship with feminist activist Thea (Janel Moloney) who begins to find his glib, one-liner approach to life annoying. She drifts off to campaign Read More

Dream House

Actors: Timothy Busfield, Lisa Jakub, Jennifer Dale

Synopsis: A family discovers their home of the future, as controlled by the central computer, is not the peaceful abode they hoped it would be. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Erasable You

Actors: Timothy Busfield, Jennifer Grant, Melora Hardin, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: Harry Bromley-Davenport directed this wacky black indie comedy about ad exec Brian (Timothy Busfield), happily married to his second wife, Calamity (Melora Hardin). Unfortunately, his first wife, Stephanie (Jennifer Grant), supports her wild shopping sprees with alimony payments that squeeze Brian Read More

Buffalo Soldiers

Actors: Danny Glover, Bob Gunton, Carl Lumbly, Tom Bower, Gabriel Casseus

Synopsis: Frank Military and Susan Rhinehart scripted this western, a look back at the post-Civil War Black cavalry troops known as the Buffalo Soldiers, the fierce fighting unit previously covered in a PBS four-parter (1970) and an NBC pilot (1979). In the New Mexico Territory, ex-slave Sgt. Wyatt (Danny Glover Read More

Trucks

Actors: Timothy Busfield, Brenda Bakke, Brendan Fletcher, Sharon Bajer, Amy Stewart

Synopsis: In this supernatural chiller, a small community is utterly terrorized when a fleet of driverless trucks rolls into town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

When Secrets Kill

Synopsis: Lacey Chabert was still the darling of the television series Party of Five when she accepted the leading role in this suspenseful TV movie. When the biological mother of adoptee Jenny Newhall (Chabert} is murdered, Jenny's adoptive father Greg (Gregory Harrison) immediately falls under suspicion. Read More

First Kid

Actors: Sinbad, Brock Pierce, Blake Boyd, Timothy Busfield, Art La Fleur

Synopsis: Some say that to be the leader of a country is one of the loneliest jobs in the world. But being the child of a world leader can be doubly so. Constantly surrounded by security officers, restricted in movements and having almost every waking moment carefully monitored makes normalcy an Read More

In the Shadow of Evil

Synopsis: Hot on the trail of a serial killer known only as "The Roper", police detective Jack Brennan (Treat Williams) is seriously injured in an accident. When he awakens, Brennan can't remember what he has been doing, nor any of the clues he has been following up. As Brennan is nursed back to health by Read More

In the Line of Duty: Kidnapped

Actors: Dabney Coleman, Timothy Busfield, Lauren Tom

Synopsis: The FBI investigates a fallen IRS agent who has apparently been using taxpayer's most personal information to formulate and execute kidnapping and extortion schemes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Byrds of Paradise [TV Series]

Actors: Seth Green, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Timothy Busfield

Quiz Show

Actors: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer

Synopsis: It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a phenomenal memory and a broad range of knowledge. He's also a pudgy loudmouth with a grating personality, so Herbert is encouraged to "take a dive" and allow Charles Read More

Little Big League

Actors: Luke Edwards, Timothy Busfield, John Ashton, Ashley Crow, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: A 12-year old boy inherits the Minnesota Twins in this baseball comedy that is aimed toward younger viewers. Young Billy, a normal twelve-year old, is nuts about baseball and knows almost everything there is to know about the game. He should, his grandfather owns the perennial losers, the Read More

Murder Between Friends

Actors: Timothy Busfield, Stephen Lang, Martin Kemp, Lisa Blount, O'Neal Compton

Synopsis: Another "based on an actual event!" TV movie, Murder Between Friends is set in 1980s New Orleans. Two friends become involved in murder when the wife of one of them begins cheating on her spouse. Constructed along the lines of "Rashomon", the script offers two entirely different accounts of the Read More

The Skateboard Kid

Synopsis: When his father's job forces the family to relocate, Zack Tyler (Trevor Lissauer) finds himself friendless and unhappy in a strange new town ruled by skateboarding cretins. However, when he purchases a used skateboard, Zack discovers that his new set of wheels has strange and unusual powers that Read More

Fade to Black

Synopsis: This made-for-cable movie features a social anthropology professor (Timothy Busfield) thrown into the role of detective when he discovers that he has unwittingly videotaped the murder of his next-door neighbor. Although he is able to identify the murderer, the professor is unable to solicit the Read More

Striking Distance

Actors: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore, Brion James, Robert Pastorelli, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: A maverick Pittsburgh policeman loses his job after he shares his suspicion that one of his colleagues is a serial killer. This thriller centers on his hunt to prove his point, a search that becomes more desperate when the killer begins killing the cop's female associates. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Sneakers

Actors: Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, David Strathairn

Synopsis: In this tech-thriller from director Phil Alden Robinson, a group of five renegade computer hackers, led by Martin Bishop (Robert Redford), are hired by the government to steal a black box, containing a code-breaking machine, from the mathematician who invented the device. The government is able to Read More

Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story

Synopsis: This fact-based drama follows the flight of a Milwaukee woman wrongly convicted for murdering her husband's ex-wife. Hoping to have a chance for a re-trial she escapes from prison and heads for Canada. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Strays

Actors: Timothy Busfield, Kathleen Quinlan, Claudia Christian, William Boyett, Eve Brenner

Synopsis: In this made-for-television horror outing, a young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Field of Dreams

Actors: Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: "If you build it, he will come." That's the ethereal message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. At first, "he" seems to be the ghost of disgraced ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on Read More

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

Actors: Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: In this follow-up to Revenge of the Nerds the nerdy frat boys from Lambda Lambda Lambda go to Ft. Lauderdale to a national frat conference where they again must outwit the thick-tongued jock frat-boys who are also at the conference. This they can do. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

thirtysomething [TV Series]

Actors: Ken Olin, Mel Harris, Timothy Busfield, Patricia Wettig, Peter Horton, Polly Draper

Revenge of the Nerds

Actors: Robert Carradine, Anthony Edwards, Ted McGinley, Bernie Casey, Julia Montgomery

Synopsis: Revenge of the Nerds is the juvenile sex comedy perhaps most synonymous with the 1980s, alternating gags and scantily clad women with a power to the underdogs mentality that prompted three sequels. The handsome jocks of Alpha Beta, led by Stan (Ted McGinley), run Adams College, which means that Read More

Stripes

Actors: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, Sean Young, John Candy

Synopsis: Bill Murray decides to be all that he can be -- and it ain't pretty -- in this hit comedy. John Winger (Murray) is a quick-witted but unambitious loser who comes home after getting fired to discover that his car has been repossessed and his girlfriend is leaving him. With no idea of what to do Read More