Vincent Spano Filmography

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Pandemic

Actors: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, French Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Vincent Spano, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Armand Mastroianni, the gifted director of the legendary 1980 horror sleeper He Knows You're Alone, returns to helm the three-hour, all-star medical miniseries Pandemic. The program explores the lethal consequences that can unfurl when a deadly plague, with an unknown cure and an even more Read More

The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie

Actors: Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Kay Panabaker, Vincent Spano, DeDee Pfeiffer

Synopsis: A poor boy who spends most his spare time playing stickball in the streets suddenly finds himself returning volleys to his butler in this contemporary take on the classic Mark Twain tale starring Cole and Dylan Sprouse. Running away to the east side in his chauffer-driven limousine, thirteen year Read More

The Engagement Ring

Actors: Patricia Heaton, Lainie Kazan, Tony Lo Bianco, Chuck Shamata, David Hunt, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Originally titled Echoes, this made-for-cable drama is set in Napa Valley wine country, sometime in the 1980s. Patricia Heaton (who also produced the film) stars as Sara, the daughter of strong-willed vineyard owner Alicia Anselmi (Lainie Kazan). Hoping to arrange a merger between Alicia and rival Read More

Buried Alive

Actors: Vincent Spano, Alexandra Paul, Robert Pine

Synopsis: The earth has opened up and mankind must find out what is causing the destruction before it's too late in the one disaster film that offers no safe haven and no place to run to. An entire mountainside is transformed into a grinding field of rock, soil, and timber in a matter of minutes, and that's Read More

The Only Witness

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Vincent Spano, Bruce Boxleitner, Vladimir Kulich, Tony Todd, Daveigh Chase

Synopsis: Tom Whitus' thriller Dead Silence begins with when Rachel Pressman (Daveigh Chase) sees a murder. Cop Steve Banks (Vincent Spano) and psychiatrist Dr. Julie Craig (Kristy Swanson) are former lovers, and they are responsible for keeping Rachel safe and helping her testify. The murder, however Read More

Deathlands: Homeward Bound

Actors: Vincent Spano, Jenya Lano, Traci Lords, Cliff Saunders, Matthew Currie Holmes, Alan C. Peterson

Synopsis: A feature-length pilot for a possible cable TV series, Deathlands: Homeward Bound was inspired by a series of novels and audio-books written by James Axler (actually a joint pseudonym, shared by several prominent science-fiction authors). Sort of a "Mad Max Meets the A-Team," the film is set in a Read More

Texas Rangers

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Dylan McDermott, Usher Raymond, Ashton Kutcher, Robert Patrick

Synopsis: The true story of the formation of the Texas Rangers provides the backdrop for this youth-oriented Western. In 1875, after the Civil War, Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) organizes the Texas Rangers to battle the outlaws terrorizing Texas, notably crime kingpin John King Fisher (Alfred Molina). Read More

Rats

Actors: Daveigh Chase, Shawn Michael Howard, Vincent Spano, Mädchen Amick, Sheila McCarthy

Synopsis: Initially titled The Colony, this made-for-TV thriller offers the nightmarish scenario of thousands upon thousands of verminous rats swarming over a posh Manhattan department store. Inevitably, the dirty rodents threaten the entire city, and it is up to such hardy souls as hero Jack (Vincent Read More

Jenifer

Actors: Laura San Giacomo, Jane Kaczmarek, Annabella Sciorra, Maddie Corman

The Prophecy 3: The Ascent

Actors: Brad Dourif, Vincent Spano, Christopher Walken, Dave Buzzotta

Synopsis: In the third installment of the series that began with The Prophecy, the Angel Gabriel (Christopher Walken) has taken up residence on Earth, where he's learned to enjoy the simple pleasures of life among humans, such as frosted doughnuts and driving a convertible. One night, he witnesses Danyael (Dave Buzzotta Read More

Deadly Look of Love

Actors: Jordan Ladd, Vincent Spano, Holland Taylor, Richard Blackburn, Hrant Alianak

Synopsis: Bored with her dead-end existence in a small Iowa town, neurotic Janet Flanders (Jordan Ladd) retreats into the rarefied world of romance novels. Her dreams of being swept off her feet by a handsome young prince seem to come true when Chicago businessman Brett Becker (Vincent Spano) enters her Read More

The Unknown Cyclist

Actors: Lea Thompson, Vincent Spano, Danny Nucci, Stephen Spinella, Michael J. Pollard

Synopsis: Bernard Salzmann made his directorial debut with this comedy-drama set in West Hollywood where a wake is held for community center founder Christopher Cavatelli, who leaves behind his lover Doug (Stephen Spinella), his ex-wife Melissa (Lea Thompson), friend Gaetano (Danny Nucci), and his macho Read More

A Brooklyn State of Mind

Actors: Danny Aiello, Morgana King, Vincent Spano, Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Synopsis: For the past two decades, small-time gangster Al (Vincent Spano) has been deeply troubled by the murder of his father and secretly desires to go straight. Al and his volatile partner Nicky (Ricky Aiello) work for crooked real estate developer Frank Parente (Danny Aiello). One day, Al's Aunt Rose (Morgana King Read More

Medusa's Child

Synopsis: The double trauma of seeing his wife Vivian (Gail O'Grady) walk out on him and having his government funding eliminated causes nuclear scientist Rogers Henry (John Glover) to go off the deep end. But Vivian doesn't know about her husband's insanity when she agrees to deliver what she thinks is his Read More

Downdraft

Actors: Vincent Spano, Kate Vernon, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: In this exciting effort, the designer of a powerful supercomputer is threatening to launch World War III and only one maverick agent and a Russian computer hacker have the skills to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Tie That Binds

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Moira Kelly, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Produced by the same team that bankrolled the hit The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this violent domestic thriller is often compared to that mega-hit. Screenwriter Wesley Strick made his directorial debut with this script by Michael Auerbach. Vincent Spano and Moira Kelly are Russell and Dana Read More

No Strings Attached

Actors: Vincent Spano, Cheryl Pollak

Synopsis: A reporter discovers both his writing and his sexual appetites can have deadly consequences in the thriller No Strings Attached. Vincent Spano plays Mark Demetrius, a journalist who is pressuring his editor, Elliot (Michael McKean), to run an investigative piece he's written on a psychiatrist with Read More

The Ascent

Actors: Vincent Spano, Ben Cross, Tony Lo Bianco, Rachel Ward, Mark Ingall

Synopsis: The most notable thing about this Italian drama, set in British East Africa (Kenya) during WW II, is it's scenery. It follows the factual adventure of an Italian POW, Franco Distassi, interred in a British camp run by African subjects. The camp is close to Mount Kenya, one of the most challenging Read More

Indian Summer

Actors: Alan Arkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Matt Craven, Diane Lane, Kimberly Payne Williams, Bill Paxton, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Mike Binder wrote and directed this reunion story in The Big Chill vein about of group of ex-campers, now in their twenties, who return to their old summer camp to get together again. Alan Arkin plays Uncle Lou, the old camp counselor and resident sage at Canadian summer camp Tamakwa. Leading a Read More

Alive

Actors: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay, John Haymes Newton

Synopsis: This is the first mainstream film to deal with the harrowing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in October of 1972 and who were forced to resort to cannibalism to survive more than two months of isolation. (The only other film to tackle the subject Read More

Afterburn

Actors: Laura Dern, Robert Loggia, Vincent Spano, Michael Rooker, Andy Romano

Synopsis: This riveting, fact-based made-for-cable drama follows the fight of Air Force widow Janet Harduvel to clear the name of her late husband, a pilot who died when his F-16 crashed. The official cause of the mishap was listed as "pilot error," but Harduvel refuses to believe this and so launches her Read More

City of Hope

Actors: Vincent Spano, Joe Morton, Tony Lo Bianco, Anthony John Denison, Barbara Williams

Synopsis: A city pulses with racial problems, political corruption, and small-time crime in this ambitious microcosm of urban life, written and directed by John Sayles. Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), a lost soul usually high on drink and drugs, has spent his life in one New Jersey city, getting free rides Read More

Oscar

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Ornella Muti, Peter Riegert, Tim Curry, Marisa Tomei, Don Ameche

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone gives comedy another try in this farce set in the 1930s. Angelo "Snaps" Provelone (Stallone) is the wealthy and powerful head of the Chicago mob, but his ailing father (Kirk Douglas) doesn't approve of his life in crime, and on his deathbed, Dad makes Snaps promise to go Read More

Qualcuno in Ascolto

Actors: Vincent Spano, Oliver Benny, Anne Canovas, Isabelle Pasco, David Brandon

Synopsis: A ham radio operator hears more than he wants to when he tunes into a satellite relay station and listens in on the murder of a woman in this suspenseful Italian thriller. The other witness is Peter, who helms the station and accidentally taps into a spy station. Unfortunately, he doesn't know Read More

And God Created Woman

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella, Donovan Leitch, Judith Chapman

Synopsis: French director Roger Vadim pillages his own grave in this nominal re-make of his 1956 creamy sensation And God Created Woman -- the film that made Brigitte Bardot an international star. Unfortunately, he is unable to do the same thing for the cool and cryptic Rebecca DeMornay in this version. DeMornay Read More

Rouge Venise

Actors: Vincent Spano, Wojciech Pszoniak, Isabel Russinova, Massimo Dapporto

Synopsis: This historical drama and murder mystery concerns the efforts of playwright Carlo Goldoni (Vincent Spano) to figure out who killed his patron and benefactor Spinoza. The lively action involves everyone who is anyone in 1735 Venice's high society. The mystery escalates when everyone of Goldoni's Read More

Good Morning, Babylon

Actors: Vincent Spano, Joaquim de Almeida, Greta Scacchi, Omero Antonutti

Synopsis: The always innovative Taviani Brothers pay homage to another unique filmmaker, D. W. Griffith, in Good Morning, Babylon. Vincent Spano and Joaquim de Almeida star as Nicola and Andrea Bonnano, the latest in a long line of Tuscany-born cathedral builders. Emigrating to America, the brothers settle Read More

Il Cugino americano

Actors: Brad Davis, Tony Lo Bianco, Vincent Spano, Barbara de Rossi, Arnoldo Foa, Ricky Tognazzi, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Blood Ties began life as a 4-hour Italian TV movie. The American version, which premiered December 14, 1986 on the Showtime Cable network, runs 125 minutes, and "runs" is the right word. Brad Davis plays an American naval engineer with familial ties to Sicily. Before he can offer a protest, Davis Read More

Creator

Actors: Jeff Corey, Peter O'Toole, Mariel Hemingway, John Dehner, Ellen Geer, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, David Ogden Stiers, Rance Howard

Synopsis: This romantic, melancholy twist on the Frankenstein formula stars Peter O'Toole as Professor Harry Wolper, a lonely eccentric who has dedicated decades of research to cloning his long-dead wife Lucy from a culture of living tissue. To this end, he enlists the services of likeable Graduate Read More

Alphabet City

Actors: Vincent Spano, Michael Winslow, Jami Gertz, Ray Serra

Synopsis: This stylishly photographed drama is set in the Lower East Side area known as "Alphabet City." There 19-year-oldJohnny has become a drug lord in charge of the neighborhood gangs and pushers. Unfortunately, he too has a boss and when he asks Johnny to burn down the tenement building that houses his Read More

Maria's Lovers

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, John Savage, Robert Mitchum, Keith Carradine, Anita Morris

Synopsis: Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky's first American film is a romantic tale about an American war veteran whose dreams of his childhood sweetheart are countered by a less sunny reality. John Savage stars as Ivan Bibic, who has returned home to a small town in Pennsylvania, having suffered a Read More

Baby It's You

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Jack Davidson, Nick Ferrari

Synopsis: In the early 1960s, two very different New Jersey high schoolers share their first love in this bittersweet romantic drama, an early feature by writer/director John Sayles. Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is a sweet, overachieving Jewish girl heading for college to become an actor; "Sheik" Read More

The Black Stallion Returns

Actors: Kelly Reno, Vincent Spano, Allen Garfield, Woody Strode, Ferdy [Ferdinand] Mayne

Synopsis: Only Kelly Reno and Teri Garr from the cast of the original Black Stallion make appearances in The Black Stallion Returns. In the first film, young Reno rescued his beloved stallion from its cruel Arab owner. This time around, the stallion is abducted by Moroccan henchmen and bundled back to Read More

Rumble Fish

Actors: Herb Rice, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: One of two S.E. Hinton novels Francis Ford Coppola directed in 1983, Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film about the death of gang culture in a rough-and-tumble town full of stunted youths. The central character is the strutting Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a foul-mouthed lunkhead clad in Read More

Senior Trip

Synopsis: The final made-for-TV movie of the calendar year 1981 (it was originally telecast on December 30), Senior Trip combines music, comedy and pathos to tell the story of a group of graduates from a staid Ohio high school. Though tightly chaperoned on their titular trip to New York City, the kids Read More

The Gentleman Bandit

Actors: Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Made for television, The Gentleman Bandit stars Ralph Waite as a popular priest whose life is shattered by a case of mistaken identity. Waite is fingered by a witness as a holdup man; during a lineup, several other witnesses confirm this. Despite his protestations, Waite cannot account for his Read More

Over the Edge

Actors: Matt Dillon, Michael Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano, Tom Fergus

Synopsis: The protagonists of Over the Edge are the teen-aged offspring of the residents of a planned suburban community. This bland little town has been designed with conformity in mind, and with no thought of making the kids' lives worth living. Even worse, there is very little opportunity for any of the Read More

The Double McGuffin

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy, Elke Sommer, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Lyle Alzado

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock fans need not be reminded that "The McGuffin" is Hitchcock's term for the gimmicks (missing papers, stolen gems, uranium deposits) that motivate the plots of his thrillers. This much is explained by narrator Orson Welles at the beginning of the family-oriented The Double McGuffin. Read More