Tim Reid Filmography

Preaching to the Choir

Actors: Billöah Greene, Darien Sills-Evans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Janine Green, Novella Nelson

Synopsis: A pair of estranged twins driven apart by the death of their parents find reconciliation and redemption after following radically different paths in life in director Charles Randolph-Wright's righteous tale of sibling rivalry and divine intervention. Upon losing their parents, twin brothers Read More

The Reading Room

Actors: James Earl Jones, Georg Stanford Brown, Douglas Spain, Tim Reid, Joanna Cassidy, Monique Coleman, George Stanford Brown

Synopsis: After the death of his beloved wife, Helen (Lynne Moody), wealthy African-American suburbanite William Campbell (James Earl Jones) finds that Helen has left behind a "living will" in the form of a videotape. As William watches the video, his late wife urges him to take his huge personal library Read More

You Wish!

Actors: Andrew James Trauth, Spencer Breslin, Lalaine, Tim Reid, Jodie Rimmer

Synopsis: In this adaptation of If I Had One Wish a children's novel by Jackie French Koller, 16-year-old Alex (A.J. Trauth) wishes that his pesky kid brother Stevie (Spencer Breslin) would disappear. This Stevie does -- literally. Belatedly realizing not only that he misses Stevie, but he doesn't really Read More

For Real

Synopsis: Actor Tim Reid of the critically acclaimed series Frank's Place directs and stars in this hip-hop Pygmalian story. Reid plays Mac, an entertainment-industry mover and shaker who unexpectedly finds himself the guardian of a poor teenage girl named CeCe (Tamara Curry). Working against the odds, Mac Read More

Asunder

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Blair Underwood, Michael Beach, Debbi Morgan, Marva Hicks, Desiree Marie Velez

Synopsis: Actor-turned-director Tim Reid follows up the success of his 1996 opus Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored with this tense psychological thriller. The film opens with two upwardly mobile couples having a ball at a fairground. Chance (Blair Underwood) and his very pregnant wife Roberta happily Read More

Blue Moon

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Set in a Nova Scotian fishing community, the made-for-TV Blue Moon focuses on a group of local citizens who are under the financial pressure of a land-grabbing tycoon. Particularly hard hit is restaurant manager Cass Medieros (Sharon Lawrence), who not only may have her property sold out from Read More

Linc's

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Pam Grier, Steven Williams, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Inscoe, Golden Brooks

Synopsis: This TV comedy-drama series takes place at Linc's, a Washington, D.C., bar and grill where blacks gather to talk about issues they face in a society dominated by whites. Widower Russell A. "Linc" Lincoln (Steven Williams) runs the tavern, host to a diverse Capitol Hill gang of customers. In the Read More

About Sarah

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kellie Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Marion Ross, Diane Baker, Nick Searcy

Synopsis: In this provocative made-for-television family drama, Marybeth, a college co-ed finds herself forced to make a choice that will forever alter her life when she learns that her recently-deceased grandmother has chosen her to become the legal guardian of her mentally retarded mother. This crossroads Read More

Touched By an Angel: Last Call

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) is assigned to give away one (and ONLY one!) miracle to a stranger in a crowded bar. Trouble is, every single person in the establishment is in dire need of a miracle! Whom should Monica choose: Wheelchair-bound Noah (Eddie Jones), desperate pool shark Claude (Clive Revill) Read More

Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Actor Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati) made his directorial debut with this filmed adaptation of Clifton L. Taulbert's autobiography. Set in an African-American community in the segregated South, Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored follows a young Taulbert through three decades, beginning with Read More

Sister, Sister [TV Series]

Actors: Tia Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Tim Reid, Jackée Harry

Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad

Actors: Janet Bailey, Courtney Vance, Dawnn Lewis, Glynn E. Turman, Tim Reid

Synopsis: Coproduced by two cable-TV servies-The Family Channel and the Black Entertainment Network--Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad uses historical fact as background for a fictional adventure tale. Courtney Vance and Janet Bailey star as slaves on a brutal antebellum North Carolina plantation. Read More

You Must Remember This

Synopsis: A highly principled African-American independent filmmaker hides his early profession because his films never became popular. This Wonderworks drama chronicles what happens when the former filmmaker's niece finds his old films in a trunk and then begins researching her uncle's contributions. She Read More

Highlander: Revenge is Sweet

Actors: Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Tim Reid, Vanity, Christoph Marius Ohrt

Synopsis: Back in 1989, Immortal Walter Reinhardt (Christopher Ohrt) was killed during a struggle with Duncan (Adrian Paul). In the three years since, Reinhardt's mortal lover, Rebecca Lord (Vanity), has bitterly vowed to avenge her sweetheart's death. Convinced that Duncan, and Duncan alone, was Read More

Highlander: Eyewitness

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss, Tim Reid

Synopsis: Tessa (Alexandra Van Der Noot) is the only witness to the murder of artist Anne Wheeler (Diana Barrington). Unfortunately, no body turns up, and the police decide that Anne was just imagining things. The only person who believes her is the murderer -- a crooked cop who happens to be an Immortal. Read More

Color Adjustment

The Fourth War

Actors: Roy Scheider, Jürgen Prochnow, Tim Reid, Lara Harris, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: The Fourth War finds director John Frankenheimer delving into the same Cold-war territory he'd previously cultivated in films like The Manchurian Candidate. Col. Jack Knowles (Roy Scheider), serving at a faraway post on the German-Czech border, carries on a personal war with his Soviet Read More

American Red Cross Emergency Test

Synopsis: This medical instructional video is produced by the American Red Cross. Taking the viewer first through a twenty-question test on proper procedures for life-threatening medical emergencies, with an included test score card, the video then shows the recommended medical procedures for each depicted Read More

It

Actors: John Ritter, Richard Thomas, Annette O'Toole, Tim Curry, Harry Anderson

Synopsis: Originally titled Stephen King's It, this two-part TV movie first aired on November 18 and 20, 1990. The story starts in Maine, where a small child is lured into the hands of what audiences everywhere can be assured is one mean clown. The 30-year struggle against an evil supernatural force that Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a former student who is accused of murdering a singing star. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead Bang

Actors: Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban, Frank Military

Synopsis: A police detective (Don Johnson), whose job is the only thing he has left in his life, must investigate the murder of a fellow officer. He follows the trail and is shocked to find a white-supremacist conspiracy in the process. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Crew: Director

Actors: Margot Kidder

Synopsis: This sequel to The Wizard of Oz (also based on a book by L. Frank Baum) is an animated adventure recounting the adventures in Oz immediately after Dorothy is whisked back home to Kansas. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Emerald City of Oz

Crew: Director

Actors: Margot Kidder

Synopsis: This is the fourth and final installment in an animated series that chronicles the further adventures of Dorothy in Oz. This time, she saves the Emerald City residents from the tyranny of the Gnome King. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this animated adaptation of L. Frank Baum's novel finds Dorothy, a little girl from Kansas, magically transported by a tornado to the land of Oz. Dorothy needs to find a way home, and with the help of a walking talking scarecrow, a cowardly lion, and a man made of tin, she's sure to have a Read More

Ozma of Oz

Crew: Director

Actors: Margot Kidder

Synopsis: In this animated adventure, Dorothy makes friends with the princess of Oz and together they skip into an exciting new world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

WKRP in Cincinnati [TV Series]

Actors: Gary Sandy, Howard Hesseman, Loni Anderson, Richard Sanders, Tim Reid

Synopsis: Debuting September 18, 1978 on CBS, WKRP in Cincinnati was a weekly, half-hour "ensemble" sitcom largely set in the offices of a Major-Market radio station. Languishing at the bottom of the ratings chart with its moribund "beautiful music" format, WKRP was given a major shot in the arm with the Read More

Highlander: See No Evil

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss, Tim Reid

Synopsis: Duncan (Adrian Paul) goes after "The Scalper," a serial killer who preys on blonde women. The murderer is either patterning himself after an insane Immortal Duncan thought he disposed of over 68 years ago -- or he is that selfsame Immortal back in business. Tessa (Alexandra Van Der Noot) Read More

Boys Town: Teaching Responsible Behavior