William Katt Filmography

Born:: February 16, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The son of actors Bill Williams and Barbara Hale, curly-haired leading man William Katt is fond of noting that he made his movie "debut" while residing in his mother's womb during filming of Lorna Doone (1951). After attending Orange Coast College, Katt pursued a career as a musician. He then made...Read More

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Alien vs. Hunter

Actors: William Katt, DeDee Pfeiffer, Wittley Jourdan, Randy Mulkey

2007
The Man From Earth

Actors: David Lee Smith, Richard Riehle, John Billingsley, William Katt, Tony Todd

Synopsis: In the tradition of such psychologically-charged sci-fi outings as The Next One (1982) and K-PAX (2001) comes the cerebral science fiction opus The Man From Earth (2007). The story concerns Professor John Oldman, a scientist who summons a group of associates to a cabin one freezing night, and Read More

2007
Bone Eater

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Michael Horse, Clara Bryant

Synopsis: When a construction crew removes an ancient artifact from Indian holy ground, they inadvertently unleash an evil spirit known as the "Bone Eater" that grows more powerful with each victim it consumes. As the body count begins to multiply, it's up to a small town sheriff (Bruce Boxleitner), his Read More

2007
House: House vs. God

Synopsis: Rushed to the clinic after collapsing on the street, 15-year-old faith healer Boyd (Thomas Dekker) is diagnosed with a brain abnormality. House (Hugh Laurie) recommends immediate surgery, but Boyd refuses, claiming to be worried that he'll lose his headling powers if he goes under the knife. Of Read More

2006
Gamers

Actors: Kevin Sherwood, Kevin Kirkpatrick, Joe Nieves, Scott Rinker, Dave Hanson

Synopsis: Kelly LeBrock, William Katt, John Heard, and Beverly D'Angelo star in this comedy about four lifelong gamers - and the obsessive intruder - who attempt to make the most of their dreary lives by breaking the world record of gaming by playing "Demons, Nymphs, and Dragons" for over 74,558 hours. Read More

2006
Mystery Woman: Game Time

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. This time out, Sam scores a coup when she manages to get reclusive mystery writer Donald Fiske (William Katt) to make a Read More

2005
River's End

Crew: Director

Actors: Sam Huntington, Barry Corbin, Caroline Goodall

Synopsis: A concerned grandfather gives his troubled grandson one last shot at redemption in director William Katt's sensitive tale of survival in the wilderness. Clay Watkins (Sam Huntington) is a seventeen-year old boy who still hasn't gotten over the recent death of his father. His anger over the death Read More

2005
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Synopsis: The Andromeda's latest rescue mission has the unpleasant aftereffect of bringing a dangerous maggot onto the ship. The intergallactic parasite worms its way into one of the vessel's hidden decks, chewing through the hologram of Eddie Aldrich (William Katt), a crew member who died over three Read More

2002
Snake Island

Actors: William Katt, Wayne Crawford

Synopsis: A small boat taking American tourists to an African resort is shipwrecked off the shore of Snake Island, a remote location with a questionable history. Tour leader Jake Malloy (Wayne Crawford) and Malcolm Page (William Katt), a novelist researching his next book, try to help the others make it Read More

2002
Justice League: Legends, Part 1

Actors: David Naughton, William Katt, Neil Patrick Harris

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, several Justice League members are whisked off to an alternate reality, reappearing in Seaboard City, a town that seems permanently locked in the 1950s. Here the Leaguers meet their counterparts, the Justice Guild of America -- all of whom resemble the Read More

2002
Justice League: Legends, Part 2

Actors: David Naughton, William Katt, Neil Patrick Harris

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, several Justice League members are still trapped in a 1950s-style alternate reality with their "Golden Age" counterparts, the Justice Guild. Several disturbing images suggest that the Guild is doomed to a horrible demise--and that their deaths would also Read More

2002
Circuit

Actors: Jonathan Wade Drahos, Kiersten Warren

Synopsis: A man hoping to move out of the closet falls into a trap of drug-fueled hedonism in this cautionary drama. John (Jonathan Wade Drahos) is a police officer from a small town who is forced to leave his career behind when it is discovered that he's gay. Hoping to find more tolerant surroundings, John Read More

2001
Determination of Death

Synopsis: To escape his enormous gambling debts, the highly unlikable Reese Williams (Marc Singer) decides to fake his own death, with the help of his long-suffering wife, Katie (Michele Greene). Once Reese is safely "deceased," Katie will fall heir to a five-million-dollar insurance policy, which will help Read More

2001
The Clean and Narrow

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Noseworthy, Laura Leighton, Wings Hauser

Synopsis: William Katt directs this indie crime drama about a loser on the run. Buddy (Jack Noseworthy) manages to pull off a drug store robbery but kills a clerk in the process, thanks to his blood-thirsty partner. Now his longtime nemesis and law enforcement officer Wayne (Paul Francis) is hot on his Read More

2000
Twin Falls Idaho

Actors: Michael Polish, Mark Polish, Michele Hicks, Jon Gries, Patrick Bauchau, Garrett Morris, William Katt, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Identical twin brothers Mark Polish and Michael Polish have written, directed, and starred in an emotional romance about a prostitute who falls in love with Siamese twins. The Polish Brothers play the conjoined twins Blake and Francis Falls, who are joined at the chest and thus share many vital Read More

7/30/99
Jawbreaker

Actors: Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, Judy Greer, Chad Christ, Carol Kane, Pam Grier

Synopsis: At Ronald Reagan High School, the power elite clique consists of Courtney Shane (Rose McGowan), Julie Freeman (Rebecca Gayheart), Marcie Fox (Julie Benz), and Liz Purr (Charlotte Roldan). The four girls control the school through a combination of beauty, sex, and intimidation. Of the four, only Read More

2/19/99
The Net

Actors: Brooke Langton, Joseph Bottoms, Tim Curry, William Katt, Mackenzie Gray

Synopsis: This TV drama series, produced and scripted by Irwin Winkler and Rob Cowan, is adapted from their feature film, The Net (1995), a thriller with Sandra Bullock as reclusive Venice, California computer expert Angela Bennett, whose life is threatened. Brooke Langton (Melrose Place) portrays Angela Read More

1998
Deadly Game

Actors: Ryan De Boer, Tim Matheson, Carol Alt

Synopsis: A boy who's looking for trouble finds a lot more than he counted on in this action-comedy. Nathan (Ryan DeBoer) is a 12-year-old kid with a smart mouth and a bit too much attitude for his own good. Not happy at home, Nathan runs away and his parents report him missing to the police; when Nathan Read More

1998
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, William Katt, Helena Carroll, Keene Curtis, Alan Shearman

Synopsis: Internationally known actress Geraldine Chaplin offers a moving portrayal of one of the 20th century's greatest humanitarians. This made-for-television miniseries honors the life and sacrifices made by the feisty Yugoslavian nun who spent most of her life tending the poor and the sick of India. Read More

1997
Rattled

Actors: William Katt, Shanna Reed, Michael Galeota, Monica Creel, Ian Abercrombie

Synopsis: It would seem that the producers of the made-for-cable chiller Rattled had not only used Joseph Gilmore's novel Rattlers as their inspiration, but had also supped full of such horror movies as Poltergeist and Arachnophobia. The scene is Eden Valley, a luxurious housing development carved from a Read More

1996
Daddy's Girl

Actors: William Katt, Michele Greene, Gabrielle Boni, Roxana Zal, Mimi Craven

Synopsis: The message of this direct-to-video thriller may be that it is possible for a daughter to love her father too much, especially when she will cheerfully murder anyone who threatens to come between them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Devil's Food

Synopsis: Aspiring TV journalist Sally McCormick (Suzanne Somers) can't get anyone to hire her--and the reason, she concludes, is that she is simply too chubby for the small screen. Although her boyfriend Andrew Burns (William Katt) tells her that eventually her talent will be judged separate from her Read More

1996
Piranha

Actors: William Katt, Alexandra Paul

Synopsis: Joe Dante's original Piranha (1979) was a small gem, a clever parody of and homage to the numerous eco-kill pictures which followed in the wake of Jaws (1975). It featured a witty script by then little-known screenwriter John Sayles (Lone Star) and a great cast including Paul Bartel, Dick Miller Read More

1995
Problem Child 3

1995
3x3 Eyes - Seima Densetsu: The Descent

1995
3x3 Eyes - Seima Densetsu: The Key

1995
3x3 Eyes - Seima Densetsu: The Return

1995
The Paperboy

Actors: Alexandra Paul, Marc Marut, William Katt, Brigid Tierney, Frances Bay

Synopsis: In this chilling Canadian psycho-thriller a divorcee finds her life endangered when she returns to her hometown and finds herself the object of an unloved young boy's deadly obsession. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Models, Inc. [TV Series]

Actors: Linda Gray, Brian Gaskill, Cassidy Rae, Carrie-Anne Moss

1994
Stranger by Night

Synopsis: In this crime thriller, a pair of police detectives investigates a series of related killings. As the evidence mounts, it becomes chillingly apparent that one of the two gumshoes is the guilty party. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Tollbooth

Actors: Fairuza Balk, Lenny Von Dohlen, Will Patton, Louise Fletcher, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: In this quirky drama a trio involved in a self-contained world revolving around a remote tollbooth in the Florida Keys. Jack, an aspiring policeman, works in the tollbooth. There he dreams of his new career and of starting a new life in Miami with his high school sweetie Doris. She works at the Read More

1994
Murder, She Wrote: Love's Deadly Desire

Synopsis: Season nine of Murder She Wrote comes to an end as famous romance novelist Sibella Stone (Carroll Baker) descends upon Cabot Cove, home turf of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). It isn't long before Sibella's assistant is murdered, and at first it appears that the novelist herself Read More

1993
Desperate Motive

Actors: Mel Harris, David Keith, William Katt, Mary Crosby, Brian Bonsall

Synopsis: In this psycho thriller, Richard Sullivan is a mild-mannered, trusting ad-man who is tickled when his long lost cousin Harry suddenly shows up at his door. Harry is accompanied by Connie, his fiancee and the innocent Richard welcomes them into his happy home. Unfortunately, whereas Richard, his Read More

1992
Double X: The Name of the Game

Actors: Norman Wisdom, William Katt, Gemma Craven, Simon Ward, Bernard Hill

Synopsis: A vacation in Scotland turns into hard work for Michael Cooper, a former Chicago policeman, when he runs into an engaging but nervous Englishman who appears as out of place as the American in a little Scottish fishing village. After the two become friendly, the ex-policeman learns the cause of the Read More

1992
Naked Obsession

Actors: William Katt, Rick Dean, Maria Ford, Elena Sahagun, Tommy Hinkley

Synopsis: This 1991erotic thriller revolves around a politician caught in a sexual cover-up that is reminiscent of the real-life 1987 Gary Hart/Donna Rice scandal. After city-council member Franklin Carlyle (William Katt) is mugged and stranded while checking out a redevelopment project in a downscale Read More

1/25/91
House IV: Home Deadly Home

Actors: Terri Treas, William Katt, Scott Burkholder, Melissa Clayton, Denny Dillon

Synopsis: After two unsuccessful attempts to turn the House horror franchise into a collection of unrelated haunted-house stories (even ditching the House moniker prior to distribution of the third film, The Horror Show), the producers opted for a direct sequel (more or less) to the first film in the Read More

1991
Wedding Band

Actors: William Katt, Joyce Hyser, Tino Insana, Lance Kinsey, David Bowe

Synopsis: In this comedy, the members of the Shakers, an aspiring rock band, perform at a series of weird and wacky weddings. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

3/2/90
Rebel Storm

Actors: Zach Galligan, Wayne Crawford, June Chadwick, John Rhys-Davies

Synopsis: In 2099 America, after Armageddon, the government is being ruled by strict televangelists, and a bunch of freedom fighters are committed to overthrow the bible toters. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1990
The Defense Never Rests

Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) comes to the defense of his secretary friend in this made-for-TV production. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Swimsuit

Actors: William Katt, Catherine Oxenberg, Nia Peeples

Synopsis: William Katt, Catherine Oxenberg and Nia Peeples star in this comedy about an advertising agency who are about to lose their biggest client, the Saltaire Swimwear Company, until they come up with a brilliant idea -- create a swimsuit model talent search. Saltaire loves the idea and the media eats Read More

1989
White Ghost

Actors: William Katt, Rosalind Chao, Martin Hewitt, Wayne Crawford

Synopsis: William Katt plays Steve Shephard, a Vietnam Green Beret who has continued to fight on alone for 15years after the withdrawal of American forces. He's a renegade, seeking to avenge his fallen comrades and wearing spooky, white Kabuki-style makeup (hence the title) as he wages his one man war in a Read More

1988
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must prove that the man whose murder conviction he upheld when he was an Appellate Court judge is really innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, David Hasselhoff, William Katt

Synopsis: Raymond Burr, as ever, stars in this TV-movie continuation of the Perry Mason saga. Once more pulled out of semi-retirement, Perry takes on the case of a wealthy man (David Hasselhoff) accused of murdering his heiress wife. Of course, this has nothing to do with the Klaus von Bulow affair. As was Read More

1988
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

Actors: Gene Barry, Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: The Case of the Lost Love was the fourth of the Perry Mason TV movies of the 1980s. Raymond Burr plays Mason (you're surprised?), who while out of town at a lawyer's conference is reunited with Jean Simmons, his lady friend of 30 years past. Simmons has come up in the world, and is about to be Read More

1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, David Ogden Stiers, Susan Wilder

Synopsis: The last of the four Perry Mason movies telecast in 1987, The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel rounds up veterans Raymond Burr (as Mason) and Barbara Hale (as Della Street), with comparative newcomers William Katt (as Paul Drake Jr.) and David Ogden Stiers (as the "Hamilton Burger"-style Read More

1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason takes the case of a publisher implicated in the strange murder of a horror novelist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason begins representing a friend of Della's after he is accused of murdering an old madam who is also his wife. As the intrepid attorney investigates, he soon exposes a multi-million dollar banking fraud. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
House

Actors: William Katt, George Wendt, Richard Moll, Kay Lenz, Mary Stavin

Synopsis: A mild box-office hit for New World Pictures, this lightweight attempt at horror parody from Friday the 13th producer Sean S. Cunningham stars former Greatest American Hero William Katt as a best-selling pop-horror novelist (a la Stephen King) who suffers an insurmountable case of writer's block Read More

2/28/86
Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun

Actors: Raymond Burr, William Katt

Synopsis: Following the excellent ratings response to the 1985 "reunion" special Perry Mason Returns, producers Fred Silverman and Dean Hargrove quickly assembled a second two-hour Mason TV movie in 1986. Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun finds Mason (Raymond Burr), now a judge, briefly stepping Read More

1986
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, Joe Penny, William Katt, Ron Glass

Synopsis: Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is once more dragged out of retirement to defend a murder suspect. This time the defendant is an obnoxious actor (Joe Penny) who was seen by an audience of millions in the act of shooting a vitriolic TV talk show host (Allan Thicke). The actor claims the shooting was a Read More

1986
Baby... Secret of the Lost Legend

Actors: William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes, Kyalo Mativo

Synopsis: Eight years before the dinosaur mania created by Jurassic Park, Bill L. Norton released this more dinosaur-friendly story about a 10-foot baby dinosaur in dire straits in Africa because Dr. Eric Kiviat (Patrick McGoohan), an evil paleontologist, is after it with a vengeance. He is the nemesis of Read More

1985
Perry Mason Returns

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale

Synopsis: In the first of a series of made-for-TV films shot two decades after the original Perry Mason television series ended in 1966, Mason (Raymond Burr), now an Appellate Court Judge, must step down from the bench in order to defend his longtime secretary Della Street (Barbara Hale) against murder Read More

1985
Faerie Tale Theatre: Thumbelina

Synopsis: This lively, funny Faerie Tale Theatre production of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is about a thumb-sized girl (Carrie Fisher) who has to find her way back home after being kidnapped by a toad and a mole. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Pippin

Actors: William Katt, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie is a filmed version of the Bob Fosse musical hit of the same name. William Katt stars in the title role of this fictionalized story of Pippin, the son of Charlemagne who sets out to find meaning in life and discovers his true self along the way. Ben Vereen appears in Read More

1982
The Rainmaker

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Tommy Lee Jones stars in this TV-movie adaption of the popular play by N. Richard Nash. Tuesday Weld stars as Lizzie Curry, a plain farm woman who seems destined to spend her life alone. When her family farm is put in jeopardy by drought, along comes Bill Starbuck (Jones), a traveling rainmaker Read More

1982
The Greatest American Hero: Season 02

Actors: William Katt, Connie Sellecca, Robert Culp, Michael Paré, Faye Grant

Synopsis: Season two of The Greatest American Hero finds the title character (played by William Katt) reverting to his original character name of Ralph Hinkley, after the March 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan by a loser named John Hinckley prompted the series' producers to hastily (and Read More

1982
The Greatest American Hero: Season 03

Actors: William Katt, Connie Sellecca, Robert Culp

Synopsis: The third and final season of The Greatest American Hero finds mild-mannered high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley (William Katt) continuing to battle evil and right wrongs on behalf of the FBI with the help of a super-powered flying red suit, presented to him by space aliens in season one. Those Read More

1982
The Greatest American Hero: Season 01

Actors: William Katt, Connie Sellecca, Robert Culp, Michael Paré, Faye Grant

Synopsis: Season one of the tongue-in-cheek fantasy adventure series The Greatest American Hero opens with the two-hour pilot episode, wherein high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley (William Katt) and FBI agent Bill Maxwell (Robert Culp) come into possession of a red "super suit" and a book of instructions, both Read More

1981
The Greatest American Hero

Synopsis: The droll Stephen J. Cannell-produced superhero parody Greatest American Hero began its two-year network run with this two-hour pilot film on March 18, 1981. William Katt stars as Ralph Hinkley, a mild-mannered schoolteacher who happens to be in the proximity of an alien spaceship landing. Also Read More

1981
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

Actors: William Katt, Tom Berenger, Brian Dennehy, John Schuck, Peter Weller, Michael Gwynne, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: This "prequel" to the Newman/Redford vehicle Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was written by TV sitcom veteran Allan Burns and stars Tom Berenger as Butch and William Katt as Sundance. The film, per its title, traces the formative days of Butch and Sundance's careers as soft-hearted western Read More

1979
Big Wednesday

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville, Lee Purcell

Synopsis: Jan-Michael Vincent plays a self-destructive beach bum to whom surfing is a Zen experience. We first meet Vincent in the devil-may-care 1960s, in the company of his carefree buddies William Katt and Gary Busey. The boys reunite ten years later, after one has served time in Vietnam. The beach is Read More

1978
First Love

Actors: William Katt, Susan Dey, John Heard, Beverly D'Angelo, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: It's hardly likely that anyone will confuse 1977's First Love with the 1939 Deanna Durbin musical of the same name. In the earlier film, Durbin received her first screen kiss from Robert Stack. In the 1977 film, no one stops at kissing. College boy Elgin (William Katt) falls for coed Caroline (Susan Dey Read More

1977
Carrie

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, Nancy Allen, John Travolta

Synopsis: This classic horror movie based on Stephen King's first novel stars Sissy Spacek as Carrie White, a shy, diffident teenager who is the butt of practical jokes at her small-town high school. Her blind panic at her first menstruation, a result of ignorance and religious guilt drummed into her by her Read More

1976
Ironside: The Rolling Y

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) and Ed (Don Galloway) travel to a farming community, in hopes of helping Porter Yarborough (William Katt), recently paroled son of crusty rancher Clint Yarborough (John Larch). In addition to clearing Porter of a cattle-rustling charge, Ironside also endeavors to mend the Read More

1975