Timothy Van Patten Filmography

Born:
June 10, 1959 in Brooklyn, NY
Occupation:
Actor, Director
Biography:
Actor Timothy Van Patten made his film debut playing Mario "Salami" Pettrino in the television drama White Shadow (1978-1981). He made his first film bow in the violent Class of 1984 (1982) and went on to appear in similarly themed low-budget films. Fans of the Master Ninja series will recognize...Read More
  • Rome: Passover

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The first episode of Rome's second season begins exactly where Season One left off, with the murder of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in the year 44 BCE. The power struggle that follows is set in motion when, thanks largely to the machinations of Caesar's scheming niece Atia (Polly Walker) Read More

    2007
  • The Sopranos: Chasing It

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Tony's growing gambling debt creates tension with a long-time confidante. Meanwhile, AJ proposes to Blanca and Phil Leotardo rises to power in New York. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

    2007
  • The Sopranos: Soprano Home Movies

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: With the sixth season split into two distinct halves, this episode of HBO’s The Sopranos is for all intents and purposes a season-premier. The action primarily takes place at a lake-house owned by Tony’s brother-in-law Bobby. Tony and Carmella have joined Bobby and Janice for some R&R and to Read More

    2007
  • The Sopranos: The Second Coming

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Tony seeks an amicable agreement with Phil Leotardo with fruitless results. Meanwhile, AJ slips deeper into depression and Meadow has a disturbing run-in. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

    2007
  • The Sopranos: Members Only

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The sixth season premiere finds Johnny Sack in custody and Phil Leotardo assuming the role of boss in his stead. Meanwhile, one of Tony's men requests an early retirement and Uncle Junior's dimensia worsens. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

    2006
  • The Sopranos: Live Free or Die

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: After Vito's secret life as a homosexual becomes public knowledge, he takes off to hide out in New Hampshire. Back in Jersey, Tony grapples with how to handle the situation. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

    2006
  • The Sopranos: Johnny Cakes

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: While Vito finds something unexpected in New Hampshire, Tony meets an attractive realtor and AJ makes a rash decision about Uncle Junior. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

    2006
  • The Sopranos: Cold Stones

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Vito finally returns to face the family about his homosexuality. Meanwhile, Carmela vacations abroad and has a disturbing dream about Adriana. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

    2006
  • 2005
  • Rome: Pharsalus

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Anna Patrick, Eliza Darby, Michele Pettini, Vincenzo Nicoli

    Synopsis: This episode of Rome examines the events surrounding the historic battle of Pharsalus. Things look grim for Caesar (Ciarán Hinds) by the time Mark Antony (James Purefoy) joins him in Greece, and to make matters worse, he's lost thousands of men at sea in the journey over. Pompey (Kenneth CranhamRead More

    2005
  • Deadwood: Childish Things

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Al (Ian McShane) and Seth (Timothy Olyphant) discuss the possibility of using Seth's purported Montana connection to get them more leverage with Yankton. Seth reluctantly agrees to play along. Wolcott (Garret Dillahunt) writes to George Hearst to let him know they've bought up every major gold Read More

    2005
  • The Wire: Back Burners

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Daniels (Lance Reddick) gives the unit their new targets, Stringer (Idris Elba) and Marlo (Jamie Hector). He's furious when McNulty (Dominic West) confirms that he went to Colvin (Robert Wisdom). "When the cuffs go on Stringer," Daniels tells McNulty, "you need to find a new home." Because crime Read More

    2004
  • The Sopranos: Two Tonys

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the fifth season opener, AJ and Carmela are shocked to encounter a ferocious bear in the backyard. Meanwhile, Tony attempts to court Dr. Melfi. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

    2004
  • Keen Eddie [TV Series]

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Mark Valley, Sienna Miller, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alexei Sayle, Colin Salmon

    Synopsis: Filmed on-location in London, the FOX cop series Keen Eddie starred Mark Valley as Eddie Arlette, a New York City police detective. Disgraced and nearly dismissed after a spectacularly botched drug bust, Eddie was ordered to transfer to London's Scotland Yard so that he might rebuild his career Read More

    2003
  • The Wire: Sentencing

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Greggs (Sonja Sohn) wakes up and identifies one of her shooters. Bunk tries to get her to identify Wee-Bey (Hassan Johnson), but she refuses to bend the rules. Avon (Wood Harris) gets out on bail, and meets with Stringer (Idris Elba) and Levy (Michael Kostroff). They realize that the office at Read More

    2002
  • Touched by an Angel: Pandora's Box

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Although her parents Charlie (Gary Cole) and Kate (Gary Cole) are out of touch with modern technology, 13-year-old Sarah Radcliff (Evan Rachel Wood) is an experienced internet surfer. But Sarah is still a child, with a child's innate curiosity. When her parents take away her computer privileges Read More

    2000
  • Touched by an Angel: Monica's Bad Day

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In order to convince a skeptical cabbie that a tragedy will occur if she doesn't reach the Queensborough Bridge by 10 PM, Monica recalls the chain of disastrous events that led up to this crticial and anxious moment. It all started when a total stranger (Howard Hesseman) made a rude gesture to Read More

    2000
  • Touched by an Angel: Living the Rest of My Life

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Cicely Tyson guest stars as frail but feisty septugenarian Abigail Jackson, who is urged by Monica (Roma Downey) and the angels to consider moving into a posh retirement community. Terrified at "losing" his mom (even though he's got a family of his own), Abigail's pathologically dependent son Read More

    2000
  • The Sopranos: Commendatori

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This episode of the original cable TV series was shot on-location in Italy. New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) travels with his top lieutenants, Paulie Walnuts (Tony Sirico) and Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), to Naples, where he intends to negotiate a lucrative new Read More

    2000
  • The Sopranos: House Arrest

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A mob boss tries to reform for appearances' sake in this episode of the TV cable series that begins heating up several story lines in anticipation of the second season finale. Having narrowly avoided prosecution in a murder case, New Jersey Mafia don Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) is advised by Read More

    2000
  • The Sopranos: Big Girls Don't Cry

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this episode of the popular cable TV series, mob chief Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) returns to therapy, a new lieutenant makes a powerful impression, and a legendary director tries his hand at acting in a multi-episode story arc. Tony reorganizes his crew, promoting Silvio Dante (Steve Van Zandt Read More

    2000
  • Touched by an Angel: On Edge

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The Angels arrive in Salt Lake City, which is also the temporary stopover for nomadic con artist Bart Ewing (Jack Wagner) and his 12-year-old daughter Haley (Anastasia Emmons). A talented ice skater, Haley yearns to settle down in one place and take lessons--especially now that she has befriend Read More

    1999
  • Homicide: Life on the Street - A Case of Do or Die

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

    Synopsis: A woman is found dead at the bottom of a cliff the day before her wedding. It is up to Ballard (Callie Thorne) and Bayliss (Kyle Secor) to determine if the woman killed herself, or if she was murdered. In another investigation, Sheppard (Michael Michele) and Mike (Giancarlo Esposioto) find Read More

    1999
  • Touched By an Angel: Black Like Monica

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: On the eve of the "Civil Rights Day" celebration in Aynesville, Illinois, Monica (Roma Downey) stumbles across the dead body of an elderly black man, apparently the victim of a hate crime. Over the protests of Sheriff McKinsley (John Ritter) and his black deputy James (Rick Worthy), the organizers Read More

    1999
  • Touched by an Angel: 'Til Death Do Us Part

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Angel of Death Andrew (John Dye) is working as a hired hand at a Montana ranch owned by married couple Molly and Jordan Avery (Julie White, Kevin Kliner). When Molly is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she balks at informing Jordan, who is enjoying his 40th birthday party. Having assumed that Molly Read More

    1999
  • Touched By an Angel: Godspeed

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A few days before she is scheduled to board the space shuttle Discovery, astronaut Josie Saunders (played by ER's Sherry Stringfield) is told that her mother has died. Josie's husband Greg (Brian McNamara's, who is also one of the space mission's Capcoms, worries that his wife may not be Read More

    1999
  • Touched by an Angel: Fighting the Good Fight

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Impoverished 11-year-old Tim (Christ Marquette) takes up the sport of boxing to get even with the bullies in his life--specifically, his brother Steven (J. Evan Bonifant) and his uncle Frank (Richard Burgi). Anxious to prove to Tim that there are better reasons to become a boxer, angel Rafael Read More

    1999
  • Touched by an Angel: Family Business

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Bill Cosby guest stars as Phil, the Angel of Reconciliation. Phil's current assignment is to mend the rifts that have separated prosperous car dealer Ben Mangione (Pat Hingle) and his prodigal son Buddy (Josh Carmichael). Ben's anger over Buddy's refusal to take over the family business--not to Read More

    1999
  • Touched by an Angel: Into the Fire

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon guest stars as Melina Richardson, a disillusioned, dispirited woman who is drawn to the Golden Path Insitute, a religious cult led by one Brother John (played by a decidedly cast-against-type Montel Williams). Sensing that the cult's purpose is far from altruistic Read More

    1999
  • Touched By an Angel: The Spirit of Liberty Moon, Part 1

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the first half of Touched by an Angel's two-part Season Four finale (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Monica (Roma Downey) and Tess (Della Reese) wonder how many lives can be changed by the courage of a single person--and better still, who will turn out to be the "courageous" Read More

    1998
  • Touched by an Angel: Only Connect

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Little League player Cameron Mancuso (Brendon Ryan Barrett) is saddled with an overbearing, "win at all cost" father named Donnie (Joe Regalbuto)--who, worse luck, is also the coach of Cameron's team. It is the task of Monica (Roma Downey) and her fellow angles to teach the widowed Donnie to be a Read More

    1998
  • Touched By an Angel: The Spirit of Liberty Moon, Part 2

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the conclusion of Touched by an Angel's two-part Season Four finale (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Monica (Roma Downey) and Tess (Della Reese) have managed to smuggle Chinese defector Jean Chang (Bai Ling) back into Beijing for a reunion with her husband George (Russell Read More

    1998
  • Touched By an Angel: Full Moon

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) is assigned to help married couple Ed and Sarah Bingham (Alex McArthur, Jessica Steen) find "closure" six years after Sarah was raped by Carl Atwater (Chris Noth). Claiming to be a born-again Christian, Carl has been paroled, and now is stalking Sarah, all the while insisting Read More

    1997
  • Touched By an Angel: Missing in Action

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) is transformed into an eighty-year-old woman to gain the trust of a bitter, self-loathing, desperately lonely WW2 veteran named George Zarko (Darren McGavin), aka "The Colonel". Our heroine's efforts to help Zarko succeed only in incurring the wrath of Stefanie Hancock Read More

    1997
  • Touched By an Angel: A Delicate Balance

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: T.J. Browner (Vincent Berry) feels neglected because his mom Sandra (Dee Wallace Stone) lavishes all her attention on his sister Rebecca (Anndi McAfee), a champion gymnast. Feeling worthless, T.J. reacts by mishandling valuable athletic equipment and committing petty thefts. Naturally, his Read More

    1997
  • Touched By an Angel: Joe's Return, Part 1

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This opening episode of Touched by an Angel's fourth season is actually the first half of a "crossover" story, with the conclusion appearing on the spinoff series Promised Land. Heavenly caseworkers Monica (Roma Downey) and Tess (Della Reese) are dispatched to the town of Chicory Creek, home of Read More

    1997
  • Touched By an Angel: 'Til We Meet Again

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) is the nurse at the bedside of elderly Joe Carpenter (Harvey Vernon), who is on the verge of being "collected" by Angel of Death Andrew (John Dye). But before Joe can leave this world, Monica and Tess (Della Reese) must somehow repair the fractured relationships between the Read More

    1996
  • Touched By an Angel: Rock 'N' Roll Dad

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The "perfect" family life of rock star Jon Mateos (A Martinez) is shattered when his Evie (Rosalind Allen) dies in a car accident while rushing to make a TV appearance with her husband. Now Jon must shoulder the burden of looking after his three children, whom Evie had raised all by herself while Read More

    1996
  • Touched By an Angel: Dear God

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Elliot Gould guest stars as Max, an embittered Auschwitz survivor now working for the US Postal Service. Assigned to the dead-letter department, Max responds to people who have written letters addressed to God by coldly informing them that God does not exist. Assigned to help Max regain his faith Read More

    1996
  • Touched By an Angel: Random Acts

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: On the eve of his 20th anniversary as a teacher, Mike O'Connor (John Ritter) feels only a sense of profound disillusionment, convinced that his career has had no significance whatsoever. The situation worsens when Mike's ex-student Danielle Dawson (Aimee Graham) conspires with her no-good Read More

    1996
  • Touched By an Angel: The Journalist

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: TV weatherperson Monica (Roma Downey) and cameraman Andrew (John Dye) are on hand when hard-driving investigative journalist Rocky McCann (Kay Lenz) looks into rumors of child abuse in a foster home run by retired couple Horace and Zelda Wittenberg (John Randolph, Peg Phillips). Though Monica Read More

    1996
  • Touched By an Angel: Sins of the Father

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) assumes the guise of a journalist, assigned to interview teenage death-row inmate Luther (DeAundre Dixon) while Tess (Della Reese) provides moral support to Luther's mother Valerie (Debbie Allen) and brother Sam (Robert Ri'chard). Through her visit with Luther, Monica is Read More

    1996
  • Touched by an Angel: In the Name of God

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Paul Winfield makes his first series appearance as Special Agent Angel Sam. After completing an assignment in the town of Roxford, Tess (Della Reese) makes a return visit to help Dr. Joanne Glassberg (Talia Balsam) open an AIDs hospice. Unfortunately, Joanne is injured in a bombing masterminded by Read More

    1995
  • Homicide: Life on the Street - Nothing Personal

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

    Synopsis: As indicated by its opening caption, this episode was shown out of sequence with the rest of season three when it originally aired on April 21, 1995. While adjusting to the news that their former colleague Steve Crosetti committed suicide, the homicide detectives divvy up Steve's huge caseload. In Read More

    1995
  • Touched By an Angel: Sympathy for the Devil

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Jasmine Guy makes her first appearance as the deliciously duplicitous fallen angel Kathleen. Monica (Roma Downey) has been assigned to reunite veteran rodeo rider Ty Duncan (Stacy Keach) with his long-estranged son Matt (Miko Hughes). Conversely, it is Kathleen's mission to drive the Duncans even Read More

    1995
  • Touched By an Angel: The Driver

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) is now employed at station KQIS as producer for hotshot TV reporter Debra Willis (Vanessa Bell Calloway), who has gained fame with her catchphrase "As my mother always says..." When star high-school athlete Bobby Garcia is seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident, Bobby's Read More

    1995
  • Touched By an Angel: Fear Not!

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Singer Randy Travis guest stars as Wayne, the older brother of mentally challenged teenager Joey (Paul Wittenburg). Bitterly resentful over having to be Joey's primary caregiver, Wayne is an ideal candidate for conversion, courtesy of Heavenly caseworker Monica (Roma Downey). But before this can Read More

    1994
  • Touched By an Angel: Tough Love

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) assumes the role of personal assistant to Elizabeth Jessup (Phylicia Rashad), a celebrated journalist who is plagued with alcoholism. Though Elizabeth's excessive drinking has caused serious damage to her relationship with daughter Sydney (Erica Gimpel) and granddaugther Beth Read More

    1994
  • Touched By an Angel: Manny

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: While snobbish Dr. Harrison Archibald IV (Robin Thomas), his social-climbing wife Barbara (Gail Edwards) and his wealthy mother Amelia (Rue McClanahan) prepare a huge reception to celebrate a new hospital wing named for the Archibalds, a kid named Manny (Jonathan Hernandez) shows up, claiming to Read More

    1994
  • 1989
  • The Wrong Guys

    Actors: Louie Anderson, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Franklyn Ajaye, Tim Thomerson

    Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of former Cub Scouts (Louie Anderson, Richard Belzer, and Richard Lewis) get together for a reunion over twenty years later and land themselves in a mess of trouble when a deranged convict (John Goodman) takes them for FBI agents. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

    5/13/88
  • Catacombs

    Actors: Timothy Van Patten, Laura Schaefer, Jeremy West, Ian Abercrombie

    Synopsis: Despite the tendency of the Curse films to bear absolutely no relation to each other, this is perhaps the only film in that series to involve an actual curse. It's also one of the better installments. The curse in question is leveled upon the 16th-century monks of San Pietro by a Read More

    1988
  • Dress Gray

    Synopsis: A made for TV movie which serves as much a condemnation of the military establishment as a murder mystery, this film revolves around an upper classman who is falsely accused of responsibility for the death of a student when he begins to investigate the mysterious demise of the young gay cadet. Read More

    1986
  • Zone Troopers

    Actors: Tim Thomerson, Timothy Van Patten, Art La Fleur, Biff Manard, William Paulson

    Synopsis: This off-beat story combines elements of a science fiction adventure and World War II drama. A platoon of U.S. soldiers are surrounded by the enemy in Italy and are forced to fight their way back behind the lines to their troops. The platoon is populated by the usual characters: "Sarge" (Tim Thomerson Read More

    1985
  • 1984
  • 1984
  • Escape from El Diablo

    Synopsis: In this prison drama, a pair of American punks get into trouble South of the Border and end up tossed in a Mexican jail, leaving their friends to devise clever ways to get them out. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1983
  • Class of 1984

    Actors: Perry King, Timothy Van Patten, Merrie Lynn Ross, Roddy McDowall, Al Waxman

    Synopsis: A music teacher (Perry King) at a tough Los Angeles high school reaches out to his students with the gift of music -- only to find a gang of sadistic punk rockers is actively dissuading new members from joining the orchestra. Not only are the punkers sadistic; they are also led by the nefarious Timothy Van Patten Read More

    1981
  • The White Shadow: Season 03

    Actors: Ken Howard, Roosevelt Grier

    Synopsis: Returning from a sentimental journey to his home town, basketball coach Ken Reeves (Ken Howard) arrives at his familiar stamping grounds at the inner-city LA Carver High School, whereupon he quickly learns that there's been some changes made. Season Three of The White Shadow begins with several of Read More

    1980
  • The White Shadow: Season 02

    Actors: Ken Howard, Thomas Carter

    Synopsis: All of the regular cast members seen during Season One of The White Shadow are on deck for Season Two, with a pair of new additions. Joining the Carver High School basketball team under aegis of coach Ken Reeves (Ken Howard) (nicknamed "The White Shadow" by the largely black student body) are Read More

    1979
  • The White Shadow: Season 01

    Actors: Ken Howard

    Synopsis: In the Emmy-winning debut episode of The White Shadow, Chicago Bulls forward Ken Reeves (Ken Howard), forced to retire after a series of injuries, bypasses the offers of several more prestigious jobs, accepting instead an invitation from college buddy Jim Willis (played by Jason Bernard in the Read More

    1978

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