William McNamaraFilmography

The Grift

Actors: John Savage, Sara Downing, Jeremy London, Max Kasch, Clare Kramer

Synopsis: A family of rural grifters employs lies and manipulation to ensnare unwitting victims in their diabolical web of greed in director Ralph E. Portillo's dark period thriller. The year is 1948. World War II has ended, and Caney Fork is your typical American small town. Like most other bedroom Read More

A Dance for Bethany

Actors: Robyn Lively, William McNamara, Lori Beth Edgeman, Wil Horneff, Frank Taylor

Synopsis: An idealistic investigate reporter who is determined to start a family risks everything she has in order to help a twelve-year-old victim of the sex trade in director Brian Gurley's affecting drama. Abbey Fisher is a top tier reporter whose marriage to a driven Civil Rights attorney has failed to Read More

The Iron Man

Actors: Nathan Bexton, Kathryn Fiore, Nic Nac, Natasha Melnick

Synopsis: When a regular guy decides to reinvent himself, his life changes in ways he never could have imagined. Director Alex Nam takes the helm for this cheeky comedy that isn't afraid to get down and dirty. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

April Moon

Actors: Stephanie Reibel, William McNamara, Kevin Dobson, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Brien Perry

Synopsis: A geeky cowboy helps a self-destructive sculptor come to terms with her dark past by helping her to confront the fear that keeps her from forming any meaningful human connections. April is a blind sculptor who was rejected by her father as a child, and has since grown up to be fiercely Read More

McBride: Murder Past Midnight

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of a series starring John Larroquette as McBride (no first name), a hard-nosed cop turned compassionate defense lawyer, specializing in "lost causes." Serving on a jury in the trial of Claire Harriman (Paula Trickey), McBride is not persuaded that Claire Read More

Time Lapse

Actors: William McNamara, Roy Scheider, Dina Meyer, Henry Rollins

Synopsis: A spy discovers information that could put the entire nation in danger, and must struggle to remember the facts while he still can in this suspense thriller. Clayton Pierce (William McNamara) is an American intelligence agent who has infiltrated a cadre of Russian and Saudi gangsters in order to Read More

Trapped

Actors: Parker Stevenson, Meat Loaf, William McNamara, Callum Keith Rennie, Suki Kaiser

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable action-drama, Oliver Sloan (Parker Stevenson) is the son of a Las Vegas resort magnate whose showplace hotel has just been given its grand re-opening. However, Sloan's board of directors is not happy with the hotel's profitability, and he knows he's about to be replaced. One Read More

Sweet Jane

Actors: Samantha Mathis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bud Cort, Mary Woronov, William McNamara

Synopsis: Drug user Jane (Samantha Mathis) lives on the streets, but Jane's addiction puts her in the hospital after she overdoses. A doctor determines she's HIV-positive and plans tests, but she slips away and returns to the streets. She's followed by sick teen Tony (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), who sees her as Read More

Knockout

Actors: Sophia Adella Hernandez, Eduardo Yañez, Tony Plana, Paul Winfield, William McNamara

Synopsis: In this sports drama, a tough and ambitious woman follows her dream to succeed in a field where few women have dared to go. Isabelle Alvarado (Sophia Adella Hernandez) grew up in a tough neighborhood in East Los Angeles, where her father once had a promising career as a professional boxer. He set Read More

Beggars and Choosers: Season 02

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Charlotte Ross, Isabella Hoffman, Tuc Watkins, William McNamara

Synopsis: Season two of the uninhibited, uncensored satirical cable sitcom Beggars and Choosers begins with yet another vicious power play between E.L. Luddin (Bill Morey), doddering owner of the LGT television network, and his avaricious trophy bride Lydia (Carol Kane). In the final analysis, both Luddins Read More

Snitch

Actors: William Forsythe, Marlee Matlin, William McNamara

Synopsis: A criminal burns his bridges with his fellow outlaws and lives to regret it in this drama. John Shakley (William McNamara) is a small-time crook who has decided it's time to put his life back on the straight and narrow. However, his efforts to stay on the right side of the law are foiled by two Read More

Beggars and Choosers [TV Series]

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Isabella Hofmann, Carol Kane, Charlotte Ross, Paul Provenza

Synopsis: To paraphrase the late, great NBC programming executive Brandon Tartikoff, the television industry is comprised of two different groups of people: The "beggars," those actors, writers, directors, and producers who tirelessly and relentlessly package and pitch ideas, concepts, and premises for new Read More

Beggars and Choosers: Season 01

Actors: Brian Kerwin, Charlotte Ross, Isabella Hoffman, Tuc Watkins, William McNamara

Synopsis: Season one of the racy Showtime sitcom Beggars and Choosers begins as Rob Malone (Brian Kerwin), the harried president of the LGT television network, pins all his hopes for high ratings and job security by greenlighting a reality series about a group of violent extroverts called the Mountainmen. Read More

Ringmaster

Actors: Jerry Springer, Jaime Pressly, Molly Hagan, Michael Dudikoff, Ashley Holbrook

Synopsis: After the success of shock-jock Howard Stern's Private Parts, shock-TV host Jerry Springer made his own foray into celluloid. Fictionalizing only the name of his television show (what is normally called the The Jerry Springer Show, is now called "The Jerry Show"), Springer plays himself as a man Read More

Something to Believe In

Actors: William McNamara, Maria Pitillo, Tom Conti, Maria Schneider, Ian Bannen

Synopsis: Lew Grade is the executive producer of this British-German co-production, a romantic drama that gets underway in Las Vegas with several casino cameos (Robert Wagner, Roddy McDowall, Jill St. John, William Hootkins). Lymphoma leaves Vegas croupier Maggie (Maria Pitillo) only a few weeks to live, so Read More

Implicated

Actors: Priscilla Barnes, Philip Baker Hall, Richard Tyson, Roger Clinton, William McNamara, Amy Locane, Frederic Forrest

Synopsis: In this offbeat thriller, Ann (Amy Locane) is a young woman trying to put her life back together after she lost her child in a car wreck. Formerly a single mother, Ann has recently started dating a man named Tom (William McNamera), and one day Tom asks Ann for a favor -- would she be willing to Read More

Glam

Actors: William McNamara, Frank Whaley, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Valérie Kaprisky, Tony Danza

Synopsis: Josh Evans wrote and directed this cynical glimpse at power players and hustlers working the shadowy side of the film industry. After his mother's death, talented eccentric Sonny Daye (William McNamara) arrives on the Hollywood scene. His brother, Franky Syde (Frank Whaley), confident of Sonny's Read More

Natural Enemy

Actors: Donald Sutherland, William McNamara, Lesley Ann Warren, Joe Pantoliano, Tia Carrere

Synopsis: In this low-budget thriller, which was released directly to video, Donald Sutherland stars as a Ted Robards, a small-time stockbroker who allows promising young Harvard alumnus Jeremy (William McNamara) to move into his home and help run his firm. While pretending to build up the business, Jeremy Read More

The Deli

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Judith Malina, Debi Mazar, Mike Starr, Frank Vincent, David Johansen

Synopsis: In this comedy, a hard-luck gambler learns a new commandment: Honor Thy Mother's Lottery Winnings. Johnny Amico (Mike Starr) runs a delicatessen in New York City; regarded as a nice guy by his friends and regular customers, he has a weakness for gambling and is usually in debt. Johnny is Read More

Stag

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, John Stockwell, Kevin Dillon, Taylor Dayne, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: A group of ten men come together for a bachelor party that goes horribly wrong in this made-for-TV drama. Mario Van Peebles and John Stockwell star as old friends Michael and Victor, both of them successful, well-off young professionals. The latter is about to be married, so Michael throws him a Read More

The Brylcreem Boys

Actors: Bill Campbell, William McNamara, Angus MacFadyen, Gabriel Byrne, Jean Butler

Synopsis: Many may not know that Ireland maintained its neutrality during World War II, so that any soldiers from that conflict who found themselves on Irish soil had to be kept in captivity until the war's end. For a variety of aeronautical reasons, quite a few Axis and Allied pilots found themselves Read More

Storybook

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, William McNamara, Sean Fitzgerald, Richard Moll, Milton Berle, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: A trip to the attic of his new house lands young Brandon and his loyal dog in a magical world ruled by a wicked queen. There he meets a captive prince and vows to help the youthful prince relocate a powerful sword and prevent it from falling into the queen's greedy hands. This fantasy adventure is Read More

Copycat

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Will Patton

Synopsis: A serial killer stalks the streets of San Francisco; unlike his many predecessors does not choose a distinctive, identifying pattern. No, this killer prides himself on his unoriginality: he is a copycat, recreating the violent murders of some of the country's most notorious serial killers, his Read More

Liz: the Elizabeth Taylor Story

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis: The life of Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor is told in this made-for-television drama. Sherilyn Fenn stars as Oscar-winning actress Liz Taylor, whose career began when her mother pushed her into acting as a child in the 1940s. Her tumultuous career ups and downs, and her turbulent personal life Read More

Chasers

Actors: Tom Berenger, Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Crispin Glover, Gary Busey, Matthew Glave

Synopsis: In director Dennis Hopper's comedy reminiscent of The Last Detail, Rock Reilly (Tom Berenger), a gruff naval veteran who plays by the rules, arrives at a Marine base, in tow with his wheeler-dealer companion Eddie Devane (William McNamara), and finds himself assigned to escort the voluptuous Toni Read More

Surviving the Game

Actors: Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham

Synopsis: The Richard Connell short story, The Most Dangerous Game, has been adapted for the screen many times. In this updated version, the rapper-actor Ice-T plays Mason, a homeless man whose best friend and his dog both die on the same day. Cole (Charles S. Dutton, a relief worker, tells Mason that Read More

Radio Inside

Actors: William McNamara, Elisabeth Shue, Dylan Walsh, Ilse Earl, Pee Wee Love

Synopsis: As two brothers fall in love with the same woman they must come to grips with the accidental death of their father in this sensitive drama set in Miami. Matthew is still wracked with guilt about the death of his father one year before. As a lifeguard, he believes he should have been able to save Read More

Girl in the Cadillac

Actors: Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Michael Lerner, Bud Cort, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: Erika Eleniak and William McNamara star as a couple of young lovers on the run in this breezy road movie, based on James M. Cain's novella The Enchanted Isle. Mandy Baker (Erika Eleniak) is a bored 17-year-old looking for adventure outside of her small hometown of Paint Rock, Texas. She finds it Read More

Aspen Extreme

Actors: Paul Gross, Peter Berg, Finola Hughes, Teri Polo, William Russ

Synopsis: T.J. (Paul Gross) and Dex (Peter Berg) leave Detroit to wax up their skis and find an adventurous new life on the slopes of Aspen in this skiing drama. The two become instructors and take up residence in a mobile home, at first fulfilling their ultimate bachelor fantasy. But T.J. becomes torn Read More

Sworn to Vengeance

Actors: Robert Conrad, William McNamara, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: Robert Conrad, William McNamara, and Sharon Farrell star in this crime drama about a police detective assigned to investigate the brutal murders of three children. With few leads but an iron will to put the killer behind bars, the detective is willing to do almost anything, including listening to Read More

Honor Thy Mother

Actors: Sharon Gless, William McNamara, Brian Wimmer, Suzanne Ventulett, Dion Anderson

Synopsis: Although his Mother denies his involvement in a brutal attack that left her critically injured and her husband dead, a college student is forced to deal with his guilt. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Doing Time on Maple Drive

Actors: James B. Sikking, Bibi Besch, David Byron, Jayne Brook, Jim Carrey

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a New England family's secrets all come tumbling out at once as they spend a weekend together to celebrate the engagement of their youngest son. Lisa Carter (Bibi Besch) and her military husband, Phil (James B. Sikking), couldn't be happier when their youngest son, Matt Read More

Wildflower

Actors: Patricia Arquette, William McNamara, Reese Witherspoon, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Set in the rural South of the '30s, the made-for-cable film Wildflower is about a pair of teenaged siblings who become friends with an epileptic girl named Alice (Patricia Arquette), who has been forced to live in the barn behind her father's house because he believed her seizures were the work of Read More

Texasville

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Annie Potts, Timothy Bottoms, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Texasville is Peter Bogdanovich's much-delayed sequel to The Last Picture Show. Adapted from Larry McMurtry's novel and told as a series of episodes, Texasville follows the characters from The Last Picture Show as they reunite in a small Texas town nearly 30 years after the end of the last movie Read More

Stella

Actors: Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason

Synopsis: Bette Midler stars as Stella Claire, a working class, fun-loving barmaid in northern New York State. A brief affair with handsome Stephen Dallas (Stephen Collins) produces a daughter, Jenny (Trini Alvarado), who Stella insists upon raising alone, despite Dallas' marriage offer. As the years pass Read More

Dream a Little Dream

Actors: Corey Feldman, Meredith Salenger, Jason Robards, Jr., Piper Laurie, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: In 1987-88, a quartet of films with the same basic body-switching premise deluged theaters: Like Father, Like Son (1987), Big (1988), Vice Versa (1988), and 18 Again (1988). One year later, Dream a Little Dream (1989) followed suit. Coleman Ettinger (Jason Robards) is forever scolding the local Read More

The Beat

Actors: John Savage, David Jacobson, William McNamara, Kara Glover, Jeffrey Horowitz

Synopsis: This drama is based on a play by Mones and is set within a grim New York neighborhood where a new kid comes to the neighborhood. Unlike the street-wise and life-toughened gang members around him, the youth is a sensitive poet who teaches the kids about the meaning and beauty of life. ~ Sandra Read More

Stealing Home

Actors: Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Silverman, Harold Ramis

Synopsis: The storytelling device of the flashback gets an intense workout in this tragic coming of age drama. Mark Harmon stars as washed-up baseball player Billy Wyatt, who is shocked when he receives news that his childhood sweetheart and friend Katie Chandler (Jodie Foster) has committed suicide and Read More

Opera

Actors: Christina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Daria Nicolodi, Ian Charleson, Antonella Vitale

Synopsis: The polar-opposite worlds of opera and horror collide in this gory giallo film from director Dario Argento. Christina Marsillach (Tom Hanks' romantic interest in Every Time We Say Goodbye) stars as Betty, a beautiful understudy who gets an unlikely break to play the female lead in a contemporary Read More