William L. PetersenFilmography

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 08

Actors: William L. Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, Jorja Fox, George Eads

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 07

Actors: William L. Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, Jorja Fox, George Eads

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 06

Actors: William L. Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, Jorja Fox, George Eads

This Old Cub

Actors: Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: On a baseball team not often cited for its great players, Ron Santo was a hero and a legend. As a third baseman for the Chicago Cubs, Santo played 14 seasons (1960 through 1974), made the All-Star team nine times, earned five Gold Gloves, and in 1965 became the team's youngest ever captain. While Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: William L. Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, Jorja Fox, George Eads

Synopsis: As season four of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation drew to a close, it appeared as though a contract dispute would rob the series of two of its most popular characters, Las Vegas PD forensic specialists Sara Sidel (Jorja Fox) and Nick Stokes (George Eads). At the last moment, however, a suitable Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Synopsis: Some dangling plot strands left over from season three of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation were tied up in season four; others were not, and of course, new complications ensued throughout the latter season's 23 episodes. Facing surgery to correct (or at the very least forestall) his hereditary Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 03

Crew: Producer

Actors: William L. Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation entered its third season still riding high as network television's top-rated drama program. There was, therefore, no need for CBS to change its time slot, nor to make any major cast changes. There were, however, two significant additions to the cast lineup. A Read More

Wrigley Field: Beyond the Ivy

Synopsis: Considered by many to be the finest ballpark in American baseball, Wrigley Field, the home of the venerable Chicago Cubs, has a rich and storied history. Wrigley Field: Beyond the Ivy documents the structure that is arguably the most famous on Chicago's North Side. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Haven

Actors: Natasha Richardson, Hal Holbrook, Martin Landau, Anne Bancroft, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: An American journalist takes on the dangerous responsibility of rescuing nearly a thousand refugees from a Nazi concentration camp in this two-part made-for-TV movie based on a true story. In the early days of America's involvement in World War II, Ruth Gruber (Natasha Richardson) is a reporter Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 02

Crew: Producer

Actors: William L. Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: The freshman season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation had ended with a dramatic rescue, as the head of the Las Vegas crime-lab unit, Gil Grissom (William L. Petersen), was saved from becoming the latest victim of a serial killer by the quick thinking of Gil's second-in-command, Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger Read More

The Contender

Actors: Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Sam Elliott, Christian Slater

Synopsis: The hard-ball gamesmanship and casual character assassination of American politics sets the stage for this thriller from writer and director Rod Lurie. When the Vice President of the United States unexpectedly dies, all eyes in Washington D.C. are on President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) as he Read More

The Skulls

Actors: Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, a college student finds himself immersed in forces beyond his control. Born and raised in a working-class Connecticut community, Luke McNamara (Joshua Jackson) made it into an Ivy League college, where he's done quite well; his dream is to be accepted into Harvard Law Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Season 01

Crew: Producer

Actors: William L. Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads, Paul Guilfoyle, Jorja Fox

Synopsis: The first season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was inaugurated with a shakeup in the Las Vegas crime-lab unit, with overnight-shift supervisor Gil Grissom (William L. Petersen) appointed head of the unit after former skipper, Capt. Jim Brass, made a misfired decision that brought about the Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Created by Anthony Zuiker, the CBS cop series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which first aired on October 6, 2000, could be described as "Quincy for the 21st century." Set in Las Vegas, the weekly, 60-minute series focused on the activities of that city's Crime Scene Investigations Bureau. Read More

Gunshy

Actors: William L. Petersen, Michael Wincott, Diane Lane, Kevin Gage, Michael Byrne

Synopsis: In this crime drama, New York journalist Jake Bridges (William Petersen), off on a bender in Atlantic City, gets into a bar confrontation with Lew Collins (Meat Loaf) but is rescued by gregarious Frankie McGregor (Michael Wincott), a member of a gang headed by Irishman Lange (Michael Byrne), a Read More

The Rat Pack

Actors: Ray Liotta, Joe Mantegna, Don Cheadle, Angus MacFadyen, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Shot in 33 days, this $9.6 million biographical drama of behind-the-scenes interactions within the Rat Pack group of Frank Sinatra (Ray Liotta), Dean Martin (Joe Mantegna), and Sammy Davis Jr. (Don Cheadle) is set against the political backdrop of the '60s, establishing links of singers Read More

Kiss the Sky

Actors: Gary Cole, William L. Petersen, Terence Stamp, Sheryl Lee

Synopsis: Jeff (William L. Petersen) and Marty (Gary Cole) are two businessmen who are sent to the Philippines for a project. The two men share a growing disenchantment with their professional lives and the responsibilities of adulthood, so they impulsively go on a drug and alcohol-fueled bender in search Read More

The Staircase

Actors: Barbara Hershey, William L. Petersen, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: A nun's prayers seem to be answered when an enigmatic carpenter mysteriously appears to build a new spiral staircase for her church. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

12 Angry Men

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Courtney Vance, George C. Scott, Mykelti Williamson, Armin Mueller-Stahl

Synopsis: A jury argues a case in a stuffy room on a hot summer's day. Eleven say "guilty!" But one holdout (Jack Lemmon) is convinced of the defendant's innocence and stubbornly argues "reasonable doubt." This tense courtroom drama is a remake of Sidney Lumet's 1957 favorite and was produced for the Read More

Mulholland Falls

Actors: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Four men just barely on the right side of the law step into a web of danger and corruption in this drama. In the early 1950s, Max Hoover (Nick Nolte) is a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who leads what's been dubbed "the hat squad," a group of sharp-dressed cops who are ordered to Read More

Fear

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William L. Petersen, Amy Brenneman, Alyssa Milano

Synopsis: Mark Wahlberg stars in one of his first features as a hoodlum drug dealer from the wrong side of the trackswho falls in love with Nicole Walker, an upper-middle-class high school girl (Reese Witherspoon). In this psycho-drama (with the emphasis on psycho), Nicole happily loses her virginity to her Read More

The Beast

Actors: William L. Petersen, Karen Sillas, Larry Drake, Missy Crider, Charles Martin Smith

Synopsis: The fishing industry of a small Northwestern coastal town is nearly destroyed when a mysterious giant sea creature takes up residence. Based on a novel by Peter Benchley, the story bears more than passing resemblance to the author's most popular story, Jaws in that a few, including a scientist Read More

Kingdom of the Blind

Actors: Michael Biehn, William L. Petersen, Nick Vallelonga

Synopsis: A veteran New York City detective's world is turned upside down when his estranged brother is suspected of murdering a powerful mob boss in this thriller starring Michael Biehn, William Petersen, and Leo Rossi. Al Scarano (Nick Vallelonga) is a Big Apple detective living the good life, but when a Read More

Return to Lonesome Dove

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Jon Voight

Synopsis: The first of a number of sequels to the highly successful western mini-series Lonesome Dove featured few of the same actors as the original, nor was it based on a novel by Larry McMurtry. In this outing, onetime Texas Ranger Call (Jon Voight, replacing Tommy Lee Jones) heads a group of cowboys Read More

CIA: Exiled

Synopsis: CSI star William Peterson headlines this adaptation of James David Buchanan's novel The Price of Malta concerning an ex-CIA agent who is exiled to the island of Curcao after pulling the trigger on a traitorous colleague. Upon arriving at the remote island paradise, former agent Stephen Guerin Read More

Deadly Currents

Actors: William L. Petersen, Trish VanDevere, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Carl Schultz' made-for-television thriller Deadly Currents stars George C. Scott as a man with a secret. The former captain of a ship that exploded, Cornelius Wettering (Scott) runs a bar in Curacao. He is friendly with the head of security for the American embassy, Guerin (William Petersen). The Read More

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Passed Away

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William L. Petersen, Helen Lloyd Breed, Maureen Stapleton, Patricia Reed

Synopsis: In this black comedy, elderly Jack Scanlan (Jack Warden) passes away just as he's about to tell his oldest son Johnny (Bob Hoskins) what he's decided is truly important in life, which does little to ease Johnny's mid-life anxieties. Jack's funeral and the subsequent wake brings together the Read More

Hard Promises

Crew: Producer

Actors: William L. Petersen, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin, Mare Winningham, Jeff Perry

Synopsis: William Petersen's High Horse Films produced this romantic comedy that endeavors to recall the glory days of Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Petersen stars as Joey Coalter, a roving adventurer who has been married to his wife Chris (Sissy Spacek) for almost thirteen years but has rarely been home. Read More

Keep the Change

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jack Palance, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Thomas McGuane, this made-for-TV feature stars William Petersen as Joe Starling, a painter suffering from creative block. For inspiration, he returns to his family's Montana home, only to find the land coveted by a malevolent developer (Jack Palance). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Read More

Young Guns II

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group Read More

The Kennedys of Massachusetts

Synopsis: Perhaps one of the most well-known and yet least known families in America, the Kennedy dynasty is shown here in all the triumph and tragedy that seems to follow them. An emigrant family that rose to the Presidency, the Kennedys have lost as much as they have gained, as this brief history shows. Read More

Cousins

Actors: Ted Danson, Isabella Rossellini, Sean Young, William L. Petersen, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, two people brought together by marriage are brought even closer by their mates. Maria Hardy (Isabella Rossellini) and Larry Konzinski (Ted Danson) first meet at a wedding, where Maria's mother and Larry's uncle are tying the knot. However, the new cousins also have Read More

Amazing Grace and Chuck

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Alex English, Gregory Peck, William L. Petersen, Joshua Zuehlke

Synopsis: When young Chuck Murdock (Joshua Zuehlke) visits a nuclear missile site, he learns that one bomb would destroy the earth in less time than it would take a piece of silverware to drop from his hand to the floor. This information sends the sensitive boy into existential angst. Wondering why anybody Read More

Long Gone

Actors: William L. Petersen, Virginia Madsen, Henry Gibson

Synopsis: Set during the 1950s, this made-for-cable serio-comedy stars William Petersen as the lovesick manager of a minor league baseball team whose team makes a pennant run. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Manhunter

Actors: William L. Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Red Dragon, the Thomas Harris novel that introduced serial killer Hannibal Lecter to the world, was adapted for the screen by Michael Mann as Manhunter. Ace criminal profiler Will Graham (William Petersen) is very good at his job because he has the ability to make himself think like the killers he Read More

To Live and Die in L.A.

Actors: William L. Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro

Synopsis: William Friedkin's crime thriller, based on a book by U.S. Secret Service agent Gerald Petievich, concerns an arrogant Secret Service official who wants to get his man at any price. Willem Dafoe plays Eric Masters, an ultra-smooth counterfeiter who has managed to sidestep the police for years. He Read More

Thief

Actors: James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, James Belushi, Robert Prosky

Synopsis: In Thief, James Caan plays Frank, a professional jewel thief who wants to marry Jessie (Tuesday Weld) and settle down into a normal life. In order to achieve his dream of a family, Frank--who is used to working solo--has to align himself with a crime boss named Leo (Robert Prosky), who will help Read More