William Devane Filmography

Jesse Stone: Sea Change

Actors: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie, Vito Rezza

Synopsis: The fourth installment of the Jesse Stone series finds restless New England police chief Stone (Tom Selleck) fighting boredom by attempting to solve a twelve year-old cold case involving a murdered bank teller. Jesse Stone is a transplanted L.A. cop who thrived on big city adrenaline, but Read More

Payback: Straight Up

Actors: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer

Synopsis: Seven years after seeing his original vision butchered under studio interference as well as his star's, director Brian Helgeland finally was given the chance to piece together his director's cut under the name Payback: Straight Up. Along with reinstating the original third Act, this version Read More

Crumbs [TV Series]

Actors: Fred Savage, Jane Curtin, Eddie McClintock, William Devane, Maggie Lawson

Synopsis: Created by Marco Pennette, ABC's Crumbs was an off-kilter sitcom dealing with such warm-and-fuzzy issues as mental illness, attempted homicide, divorce, closeted homosexuality, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and bitter sibling rivalry. In one of the most spectacular examples of non-typecasting in TV Read More

Crumbs [TV Series]

Actors: Fred Savage, Jane Curtin, William Devane, Eddie McClintock, Maggie Lawson

Synopsis: The situation comedy Crumbs stars Fred Savage as Mitch, a closeted gay screenwriter who leaves California to return East in order to help care for his mother (Jane Curtain) who was just released from a mental institution after attempting to kill her husband (William Devane) after he strayed from Read More

24: Day 4, 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Synopsis: Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) is forced to conduct a brutal interrogation of Paul (James Frain), with Audrey (Kim Raver) looking on. Paul pleads ignorance, explaining that he owns so much property and is involved with so many buildings that he can't keep it all straight. He eventually remembers that a Read More

24: Season 04

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, William Devane, Alberta Watson, Nestor Serrano, Shohreh Aghdashloo

Synopsis: Season four of the wildly successful "real-time" adventure series 24 begins some 18 months at the end of season three. John Keeler (Geoff Pierson) has succeeded David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) as president of the United States, and the new secretary of defense is James Heller (William Devane) Read More

24: Day 4, 3:00PM - 4:00PM

Synopsis: Curtis (Roger R. Cross) and Driscoll (Alberta Watson) could both be in trouble over the whole Marianne (Aisha Tyler) debacle. They agree to cover each other with Division. Powell is dead, Marianne is unconscious, and the nuclear power plant at San Gabriel Island is on the verge of going critical. Read More

Deceit

Synopsis: The life of wealthy Ellen McCarthy (Marlo Thomas) is thrown into disarray when her husband Grove (William Devane) disappears at sea during a voyage on the family yacht. Evidence indicates that Grove has drowned, and the police have reason to suspect that Ellen was responsible. As the investigation Read More

Monte Walsh

Actors: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, George Eads, Wallace Shawn, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Jack Schaefer (writer of Shane), and previously filmed theatrically in 1970, the made-for-cable Monte Walsh is the still-timely saga of a dying way of life. Monte Walsh (Tom Selleck) and his friends are cowboys and bronco busters, plying their trade in the Wyoming Territory of Read More

The Badge

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Ray McKinnon, Tom Bower

Synopsis: A good-old-boy small-town sheriff in a New Orleans parish happens upon a murder case that threatens to end his career in Behind the Badge, the embattled second feature of writer/director Robby Henson (Pharaoh's Army). Billy Bob Thornton stars as Darl, a divorced lawman first spotted sleeping in Read More

Race To Space

Synopsis: A chimp helps bring together a boy and his father -- as well as putting America in the lead of the space race -- in this drama, which was inspired by the true story of the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission in 1961. Dr. Wilhelm von Huber (James Woods) is a German expatriate scientist living in the United Read More

Threat of Exposure

Synopsis: Badger Weldon (Will Schaub), an ex-boxer turned undercover cop, thinks he may be falling for his beautiful psychologist Dr. Daryl Sheleigh (Sean Young), especially after she is able to lead him through painful memories of his past through hypnosis. The only problem is that Badger's brother is Read More

A Christmas Visitor

Synopsis: William Devane and Meredith Baxter star in this sentimental made-for-cable drama as John and Carol Boyajian, a couple facing a bleak Christmas due to a surfeit of personal tragedy. Having already lost their son in Operation Desert Storm, the Boyajians must now confront the possibility that their Read More

Control

Actors: William Devane, Sean Young

Poor White Trash

Actors: Sean Young, William Devane, Jason London, Jacob Tierney

Synopsis: One of several comedies at the 2000 Method Film Festival to focus on the socio-economic cross-section identified in its title, this film stars Sean Young as a determined Illinois mom who will do anything to provide a college education for her beloved son Mike Tony Denman. The first order of Read More

Space Cowboys

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: In this adventure drama, four men passed over by the space program get one last chance to be heroes and live out their dreams. Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland), and Tank Sullivan (James Garner) were top pilots within an elite Air Read More

Hollow Man

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Greg Grunberg, Mary Jo Randle, Kim Dickens, Joey Slotnick, William Devane

Synopsis: In this sci-fi thriller, a man and a woman must fend off a killer whom they cannot see. Scientist Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon) is working with a secret military research team headed by Dr. Kramer (William Devane), assigned to create new intelligence technology. With the help of his colleagues Read More

The Michael Richards Show [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Richards, William Devane, Bill Cobbs, Tim Meadows

Synopsis: According to the original publicity packets, the avowed purpose of the NBC sitcom The Michaels Richards Show was to persuade viewers that there was more to star Richards than his familiar Seinfeld characterization of nutty next-door neighbor Kramer. The first pilot, however -- filmed on location Read More

The Man Who Used to Be Me

Actors: William Devane, Rob Estes, Laurie Holden, Dion Johnstone, Peter Wingfield

Synopsis: In the year 2020, hardbitten, hard-drinking ex-cop Sam Ryan (William Devane) continues to guiltily grieve over the murder of his father twenty years earlier. With the help of a newly developed time machine, Sam is given the chance to return to 2000 in hopes of preventing his dad's murder. Alas, he Read More

Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story

Actors: Patty Duke, William Devane, Elisabeth Rosen, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Natasha Melnick

Synopsis: Used to having his family jump at the sound of his voice, control-freak executive Tom Kincaid (William Devane) insists that his wife Carla (Patty Duke) and his three teenaged daughters accompany him on a weekend trip to the mountains. Flying in their private plane, the Kincaids crash in a remote Read More

Payback

Actors: James Coburn, Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer

Synopsis: Porter (Mel Gibson) is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val (Brian De Palma regular, Gregg Henry). As they're stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads, no one is going to call the police. Everything goes smoothly until Porter's wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger), shoots Read More

Turks

Actors: William Devane, David Cubitt, Helen Carey, Matthew John Armstrong, Michael Muhney

Exception to the Rule

Actors: Kim Cattrall, Sean Young, William Devane, Eric McCormack, Stephen Mendel

Synopsis: This juicy made-for-television drama provides the lurid details of a gem merchant's sleazy lifestyle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Doomsday Rock

Actors: Connie Sellecca, Ed Marinaro, William Devane, Marsha Warfield, Jessica Walter

Synopsis: Originally aired as an epic mini-series, Doomsday Rock was the first revival of "what-if-an-enormous-(insert appropriate astral body)-hit-the-Earth" movies. Essentially a sub-genre of the disaster movie, the story centers on the struggle of one main character to save the planet while Read More

Touched By an Angel: Sandcastles

Synopsis: While vacationing at the beach, Monica (Roma Downey) and Rafael (Alexis Cruz) are swept up in a search for a boy named Scooter Fisher, who has left an ominous and rather desperate message in a bottle. Complicating matters is the fact that no one seems to have ever heard of Scooter Fisher, and that Read More

Forgotten Sins

Synopsis: The perils and pitfalls of the so-called "repressed memory syndrome" are brought home in a chilling fashion in this fact-based TV movie. After attending a Christian retreat, young Rebecca Bradshaw (Lisa Dean Ryan) returns home to accuse her deputy sheriff father Matthew (John Shea) of sexually Read More

The Absolute Truth

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the events surrounding the Bill Clinton sex scandal, the made-for-TV The Absolute Truth starsJane Seymour as Alison Reid, crusading anchorwoman for the top-rated TV magazine show "Focus." Upon obtaining evidence that powerful senator and presidential candidate Jake Slaughter Read More

Freefall: Flight 174

Actors: William Devane, Shelley Hack, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Falling From the Sky: Flight 174 was based on a true story that occurred high over Canada in July of 1983. While en route from Montreal to Edmonton, a brand-new Boeing 767 runs out of fuel in mid-flight. With only a cursory knowledge of the jet's inner works, the crew is forced to Read More

Detonator II: Night Watch

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Alexandra Paul, William Devane, Michael J. Shannon, Lim Kay-siu

Synopsis: High-tech crime in the art world is the subject of this British made-for-television movie. Pierce Brosnan and Alexandria Paul star as agents for the United Nations who are sent to track down a stolen Rembrandt painting. Their investigation takes them all over the world, and leads them into the Read More

Lady in Waiting

Synopsis: A divorced Los Angeles detective is tracking down a psycho serial killer who strangles prostitutes. He becomes a suspect himself when the rich lawyer who represented all the murdered hookers is killed -- and the lawyer just happens to be his ex-wife's husband. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Formula for Death

Actors: Nicollette Sheridan, William Devane

Synopsis: This made-for-TV thriller was based on Robin Cook's bestseller Outbreak, but had to be retitled to avoid conflict with a similarly plotted theatrical feature of the same name (which in fact had been conceived long after Cook's novel hit the stands in 1987). Somewhere, somehow, someone has released Read More

For the Love of Nancy

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, William Devane, Tracey Gold

Synopsis: Real-life recovering anorexic Tracey Gold stars in this emotional drama, which is more than your average disease-of-the-week fare. Based on the true story of college-student Nancy Walsh, this above-average TV-movie focuses on the family dynamic issues often found at the core of the eating disorder Read More

Detonator

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Christopher Lee, Alexandra Paul, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: "They're the toughest anti-terrorist strike force in the world. But they've never faced an enemy like this." The "they" mentioned in the ad copy for Death Train are headed by Pierce Brosnan. The enemy is rogue Russian general Christopher Lee, who has stolen two nuclear bombs, intending to hold the Read More

Chips, the War Dog

Synopsis: Originally appearing on the Disney channel, this exciting adventure chronicles the courage of both a young WW II-era soldier and the German shepherd he is assigned to control. The boy's phobia of dogs complicates matters, but eventually the two form an undefeatable team. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Phenom [TV Series]

Actors: Judith Light, Angela Goethals, Todd Louiso, William Devane

Rubdown

Synopsis: Jack Coleman plays a down-on-his-luck baseball player who becomes a Beverly Hills masseur. One of his male clients hires Coleman to make love to the man's wife (Michelle Phillips) to provide grounds for a divorce. Needless to say, the client ends up dead, and Coleman is the prime suspect. American Gigolo Read More

Obsessed

Actors: Shannen Doherty, William Devane, Clare Carey, James Handy, Lois Chiles

Synopsis: In this drama, a middle-aged philanderer gets involved with a deceptively sweet young thing who coyly manipulates him into a very dangerous situation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The President's Child

Synopsis: In this drama, a reporter attempts to protect her small son (the result of her brief tryst with a presidential candidate) from the prying eyes of a shady political advisor. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mysteries of the Ancient World, Vol. 2: Ancient Secrets of the Bible, Part 1

Synopsis: Mysteries of the Ancient World presents several religious and spiritual mysteries which continue to baffle science today. The four volumes include Mysteries of the Ancient World, The Discovery of Noah's Ark, Ancient Secrets of the Bible, and Ancient Secrets of the Bible, Part Two. Darren McGavin, Dennis Weaver Read More

Knots Landing: Season 14

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson, William Devane, Nicollette Sheridan

Synopsis: The 14th and final season of Knots Landing is distinguished by the conspicuous absence of longtime regular Joan Van Ark, whose character, Val Ewing, mysteriously disappeared while researching a book on mob-connected politician and businessman Greg Sumner (William Devane). In his frantic efforts to Read More

Knots Landing: Season 13

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson, William Devane

Synopsis: Season Thirteen of Knots Landing gets under way with only one of the four original "couplings" of the series' first season intact: After many romantic side trips and emotional detours, Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) and his ex-wife Val (Joan Van Ark) have decided to let bygones be bygones and tie Read More

Rand McNally Video Expeditions: Rafting the River of the Red Ape

Actors: William Devane

Synopsis: The Alas River is known as the River of the Red Ape, named after the orangutan that lives in the Sumatran and Borneo rain forests. Running the rapids of the Alas takes bravery and skill, and not every traveler is up to its challenges. Although the raging river flows through lush vegetation, its Read More

Nightmare in Columbia County

Actors: William Devane, Jeri Ryan, Michele Abrams

Synopsis: Nightmare in Columbia County was inspired by a true-life crime which occurred in South Carolina in the 1980s. An elusive psychopath is stalking a beauty contest winner. He kidnaps the girl's sister, then murders several people to cover his tracks. The police are at a loss to find the maniac, who Read More

Vital Signs

Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Diane Lane, Jimmy Smits, Norma Aleandro, Jack Gwaltney

Synopsis: Marisa Silver helmed this tightly directed hospital drama reminiscent of David Swift's 1962 The Interns. Jimmy Smits plays Dr. David Redding, who guides seven student doctors through their third year of residency at Los Angeles Central's medical school. The cast includes Laura San Giacomo as Read More

Murder C.O.D.

Actors: William Devane, Patrick Duffy

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Murder C.O.D. has a plot almost as complex and clever as its psychotic "protagonist." William Devane plays an adroit hitman who selects his victims before he's been hired to kill them. His modus operandi is to approach the person or persons who'd most benefit from the murder, then Read More

Knots Landing: Season 12

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson, William Devane

Synopsis: Rendered mortally ill by anti-chemical activists during Season Eleven of Knot's Landing, scheming politician-businessman Greg Sumner (William Devane) is snatched from the jaws of death by a liver transplant--which, characteristically, he has secured by dishonest means. This leaves Sumner alive and Read More

The Preppie Murder

Actors: William Baldwin

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Preppie Murder begins on August 26, 1986. This was the day that 18-year-old Jennifer Levin (Lara-Flynn Boyle) was strangled to death in Central Park. The prime suspect, Jennifer's 19-year-old boyfriend Robert Chambers (William Baldwin), confesses to the crime. The Read More

Knots Landing: Season 11

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson, William Devane

Synopsis: Although the scheming Abby Cunningham (Donna Mills) had departed Knots Landing at the end of its tenth season, the series still managed to serve up a full recipe of fascinating intrigues during its eleventh season on the air. Dominating much of the proceedings is a plotline sparked by a Read More

Knots Landing: Season 10

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Season Ten of Knots Landing begins with Val (Joan Van Ark) surviving the lethal drug overdose administered by Jill (Teri Austin). Worried that her current amour Gary (Ted Shackelford) was planning to re-wed his former wife Val, Jill had schemed to bump off her rival in a manner that would look Read More

Knots Landing: Season 09

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: The big news of Knots Landing's ninth season is the apparent murder of unsavory politician Peter Hollister, who in the course of the previous season had had affairs with both Abby Cunningham (Donna Mills) and Abby's daughter Olivia (Tonya Crowe)--leading Abby to believe that Olivia was the killer Read More

Timestalkers

Actors: William Devane, Lauren Hutton, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: The "history is inviolate" theory so chillingly elucidated in Ray Bradbury's The Sound of Thunder is recycled for the made-for-TV Timestalkers. William Devane plays a genially eccentric professor who teams with time traveller Lauren Hutton to prevent the course of history from being disastrously Read More

Knots Landing: Season 08

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Moving to its now-famous Thursday night timeslot on the occasion of its eighth season, Knots Landing quickly updates its fans on events left unresolved at the end of Season Seven, not least of which is the mysterious kidnapping of Karen MacKenzie (Michele Lee). It turns out that Karen's abductor Read More

Knots Landing: Season 07

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: The "Black Market Baby" story arc which dominated most of Knots Landing's sixth season is resolved in the first few episodes of Season Seven, as Val Ewing (Joan Van Ark) is tearfully reunited with her twin babies, who had been stolen and auctioned off on the illegal-adoption circuit. This settled Read More

Knots Landing: Season 06

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Season Six of Knots Landing begins with the conniving Abby Cunningham (Donna Mills) finding herself the victim rather than the predator for a change when she is kidnapped by the sinister Mark St. Claire (Joseph Chapman). Meanwhile, Karen Fairgate MacKenzie (Michele Lee), having been wounded by a Read More

Urge to Kill

Synopsis: Filmed in Dallas, the made-for-TV With Intent to Kill gets under way as high school football hero Bo Reinecker (Alex McArthur) tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen (Catherine Mary Stewart). Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is Read More

Hadley's Rebellion

Actors: Griffin O'Neal, William Devane, Charles Durning, Adam Baldwin, Lisa Lucas

Synopsis: Hadley Hickman (Griffin O'Neal), a bucolic teenager from the Rural South, moves with his family to Southern California. Enrolled in a snobbish prep school, Hadley is victimized and ostracized by his too-cool classmates. To prove his worth, our hero takes up wrestling, and before long he's the Read More

Testament

Actors: Jane Alexander, William Devane, Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: Director Lynne Littman has created an effective, understated portrayal of the cost of a nuclear war in human terms, in a film as far removed from the fake hyperbole of action and disaster movies as the natural world is from cartoons. Set in the small California town of Hamlin, the Wetherly family Read More

Jane Doe

Actors: Karen Valentine, William Devane, David Huffman, Stephen E. Miller

Synopsis: Jane Doe, played by Karen Valentine, is an amnesiac with no clue as to her true identity. She does know that she's recovering from a brutal attempted murder. She also knows that a psychopath--a serial killer known as the Roadside Strangler--is tracking her every move. But why? William Devane plays Read More

Knots Landing: Season 05

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: The fourth-season murder of singer Cijji Dunne still looms large over the main characters of Knots Landing as the series launches its fifth year on the air. After briefly suspecting Cijji's erstwhile lover Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) and Gary's wife Val (Joan Van Ark), Federal prosecutor Mack Read More

Red Flag: The Ultimate Game

Synopsis: Purportedly based on a true story, this made-for-TV drama was filmed on location at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The focus is on two highly competitive jet pilots, Major Jay Rivers (Barry Bostwick) and Major Phil Clark (William Devane). Unable to leave their rivalry on the ground, Rivers and Read More

Honky Tonk Freeway

Actors: Beau Bridges, Hume Cronyn, Beverly D'Angelo, William Devane, George Dzundza

Synopsis: In this involved send-up of two American icons -- the automobile and the tourist trap -- the tiny Florida town of Ticlaw strives desperately for success after it has been denied the most essential of all tourist amenities -- a freeway exit. The insane, and mostly successful, schemes of the mayor (William Devane Read More

The Other Victim

Synopsis: In this drama, a couple tries to cope with the devastating aftermath of the wife's rape. The wife is terribly traumatized. The husband is unable to deal with it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

From Here to Eternity: Crossroads and Secrets

Synopsis: When Sgt. Warden is transferred to a combat unit, he turns down his officer's commission, putting himself in danger. ~ All Movie Guide Read More