Patrick Williams
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Patrick Williams is a 20th and 21st century American composer, winning recognition in jazz, popular music, concert music and music for film and television.
, where he directed the student-run jazz big band, known as the Duke Ambassadors
, from 1959-1961. Since music was always his first love, he went on to Columbia University
to study music composition and conducting, where his passion became his profession. He quickly became busy as an arranger in New York; he moved to California in 1968 to pursue work in the movie and television field while continuing to write and arrange jazz albums.
Williams has also been a leader in the music-education field for many years. He served as the Artistic Director of the Henry Mancini Institute - one of the nation's premier training programs for young musicians seeking professional careers in music - for five years. He has been Visiting Professor and Composer-in-Residence at the University of Utah
and the University of Colorado
, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Duke University and has performed and/or lectured at such other institutions as the Berklee College of Music
, Indiana University
, Texas Christian University
, UCLA
, USC
, and Yale University
.
for composing the orchestral work An American Concerto, he has won two GRAMMYs for his jazz arrangements, four Emmys for his television music, an Oscar nomination for film composition, and the Richard Kirk Award from BMI
.
Williams has scored more than 200 films, including Breaking Away
, which received a 1978 Oscar nomination; All of Me, Swing Shift
, Cuba
, Casey's Shadow, and The Grass Harp
. For television, his music has accompanied shows such as Columbo, Lou Grant
, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
, The Bob Newhart Show
, The Streets of San Francisco
, and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
. His jazz-funk arrangement of The Beatles
' "Get Back
" was used as the original theme music for Sale of the Century
from 1969 to 1971, as well as the longtime theme for the 1970s sports quiz show Sports Challenge
, emceed by Dick Enberg
.
In addition to Williams' 4 Emmys, he has received 23 nominations.
Several of Williams' recordings are considered contemporary big-band standards, including Threshold, which won a 1974 GRAMMY; Too Hip for the Room, a GRAMMY nominee in 1983; Tenth Avenue, a double GRAMMY nominee in 1987; and Sinatraland, a tribute to the singer which was GRAMMY-nominated in 1998. Williams has received 16 GRAMMY nominations for his compositions and arrangements.
Frank Sinatra
asked Williams to arrange and conduct his two Duets albums. For clarinetist Eddie Daniels
, Williams wrote A Concerto in Swing; for saxophonist Tom Scott
, he penned Romances for Jazz Soloist and Orchestra. His Theme For Earth Day was recorded by John Williams
and the Boston Pops. And his most recent compositions, Adagio for Orchestra and August are currently being programmed by orchestras in the U.S. and abroad.
An American Concerto, composed in 1976, was one of the first successful attempts to combine jazz elements with traditional symphonic writing.
"His An American Concerto is, in my opinion, the best mixture of jazz and classical that anybody has ever done," says respected music critic Gene Lees
. "Pat's writing is breathtaking. He's just one of the finest arrangers and composers who ever put pen to paper." Daniel Cariaga wrote in the Los Angeles Times
: "An American Concerto must be one of the most attractive, affecting and original of jazz-symphonic meldings. The style is unrestrained, the tunes ingratiating, the writing expert. What Williams owes to the fair influences of Debussy, Bartok, Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff seems no more and no less than other living composers may owe in those directions. What sets him a cut above others is the individual integration he has achieved out of those influences."
One of Williams' accomplishments is the 1986 orchestral tour-de-force Gulliver. He spent eight months writing the work, which was recorded by London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
, with narration by Larry Gelbart
(based on Jonathon Swift's writings) read by John Gielgud
. For the concert premier, Williams conducted the Yale Philharmonia with Tony Randall
narrating.
Critics have also praised Williams' numerous concert-hall works. In addition to An American Concerto, Gulliver, Romances, Earth Day, Adagio, and August, they have included Suite Memories for trombone and symphony orchestra, which won a 1986 GRAMMY; Spring Wings, a double concerto for piano and saxophone and symphony orchestra; Appalachian Morning, recorded by the Boston Pops; Memento Mei for solo soprano and orchestra; The Prayer of St. Francis for flute and strings; and others.
Biography
Born in Missouri, Williams grew up in Connecticut and received a degree in history from Duke UniversityDuke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, where he directed the student-run jazz big band, known as the Duke Ambassadors
Duke Ambassadors
The Duke Ambassadors were a student-run jazz big band, active at Duke University from 1934-1964. Student-run big bands continued in 1969 as the Duke Stage Band and from 1971-1974 as the Duke Jazz Ensemble...
, from 1959-1961. Since music was always his first love, he went on to Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
to study music composition and conducting, where his passion became his profession. He quickly became busy as an arranger in New York; he moved to California in 1968 to pursue work in the movie and television field while continuing to write and arrange jazz albums.
Williams has also been a leader in the music-education field for many years. He served as the Artistic Director of the Henry Mancini Institute - one of the nation's premier training programs for young musicians seeking professional careers in music - for five years. He has been Visiting Professor and Composer-in-Residence at the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
and the University of Colorado
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Duke University and has performed and/or lectured at such other institutions as the Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz, rock and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip...
, Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
, Texas Christian University
Texas Christian University
Texas Christian University is a private, coeducational university located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States and founded in 1873. TCU is affiliated with, but not governed by, the Disciples of Christ...
, UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...
, USC
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
, and Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
Career and recognition
Nominated for the Pulitzer PrizePulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
for composing the orchestral work An American Concerto, he has won two GRAMMYs for his jazz arrangements, four Emmys for his television music, an Oscar nomination for film composition, and the Richard Kirk Award from BMI
Broadcast Music Incorporated
Broadcast Music, Inc. is one of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed...
.
Williams has scored more than 200 films, including Breaking Away
Breaking Away
Breaking Away is a 1979 American film. A coming of age story, it follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school. It stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern , Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley...
, which received a 1978 Oscar nomination; All of Me, Swing Shift
Swing Shift (film)
Swing Shift is a 1984 feature film directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn with Kurt Russell. It also starred Christine Lahti, Fred Ward and Ed Harris...
, Cuba
Cuba (film)
Cuba is a 1979 drama film directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery, set during the build-up to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.Connery stars as a British mercenary who travels to Cuba, which is on the brink of revolution with the authority of dictator Fulgencio Batista collapsing every day...
, Casey's Shadow, and The Grass Harp
The Grass Harp (1995 film)
The Grass Harp is a 1995 dramatic-comedy film directed by Charles Matthau and starring Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, and Nell Carter...
. For television, his music has accompanied shows such as Columbo, Lou Grant
Lou Grant (TV series)
Lou Grant is an American television drama series starring Ed Asner in the titular role as a newspaper editor. Unusual in American television, this drama series was a spinoff from a sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Aired from 1977 to 1982, Lou Grant won 13 Emmy Awards, including "Outstanding Drama...
, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977...
, The Bob Newhart Show
The Bob Newhart Show
The Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, , to April 1, . Comedian Bob Newhart portrayed a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers...
, The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco
The Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
, and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd is an NBC/Lifetime comedy-drama that aired from 1987 to 1991. It was created by Jay Tarses and starred Blair Brown in the title role.-Premise:...
. His jazz-funk arrangement of The Beatles
The Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...
' "Get Back
Get Back
"Get Back" is a song by The Beatles, composed by Paul McCartney and frequently attributed to Lennon–McCartney. The song was originally released as a single on 11 April 1969, and credited to "The Beatles with Billy Preston." A different mix of the song later became the closing track of Let It Be ,...
" was used as the original theme music for Sale of the Century
Sale of the Century
Sale of the Century is a television game show format that has been screened in several countries in various incarnations since 1969. The show found its biggest success in Australia, where it aired weeknights from 1980 to 2001...
from 1969 to 1971, as well as the longtime theme for the 1970s sports quiz show Sports Challenge
Sports Challenge
Sports Challenge was a sports-centered game show that aired in weekly syndication from 1971 to 1979, with a separate version that aired briefly on CBS weekends from May 20 to September 9, 1973. Dick Enberg was host...
, emceed by Dick Enberg
Dick Enberg
Richard Alan "Dick" Enberg is an American sportscaster. He currently provides play-by-play for telecasts of San Diego Padres baseball on 4SD, following a long career calling various sports for such networks as NBC, CBS, and ESPN...
.
In addition to Williams' 4 Emmys, he has received 23 nominations.
Several of Williams' recordings are considered contemporary big-band standards, including Threshold, which won a 1974 GRAMMY; Too Hip for the Room, a GRAMMY nominee in 1983; Tenth Avenue, a double GRAMMY nominee in 1987; and Sinatraland, a tribute to the singer which was GRAMMY-nominated in 1998. Williams has received 16 GRAMMY nominations for his compositions and arrangements.
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
asked Williams to arrange and conduct his two Duets albums. For clarinetist Eddie Daniels
Eddie Daniels
Eddie Daniels is an American musician. Though he is best known as a jazz clarinet player, he has also played alto and tenor saxophones, as well as classical music on the clarinet....
, Williams wrote A Concerto in Swing; for saxophonist Tom Scott
Tom Scott (musician)
Tom Scott is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, conductor and bandleader of the west coast jazz/jazz fusion ensemble The L.A. Express.-Biography:Scott was born in Los Angeles, California...
, he penned Romances for Jazz Soloist and Orchestra. His Theme For Earth Day was recorded by John Williams
John Williams
John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...
and the Boston Pops. And his most recent compositions, Adagio for Orchestra and August are currently being programmed by orchestras in the U.S. and abroad.
An American Concerto, composed in 1976, was one of the first successful attempts to combine jazz elements with traditional symphonic writing.
"His An American Concerto is, in my opinion, the best mixture of jazz and classical that anybody has ever done," says respected music critic Gene Lees
Gene Lees
Frederick Eugene John "Gene" Lees was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and former journalist. Lees worked as a newspaper journalist in his native Canada before moving to the United States where he was a music critic and lyricist...
. "Pat's writing is breathtaking. He's just one of the finest arrangers and composers who ever put pen to paper." Daniel Cariaga wrote in the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
: "An American Concerto must be one of the most attractive, affecting and original of jazz-symphonic meldings. The style is unrestrained, the tunes ingratiating, the writing expert. What Williams owes to the fair influences of Debussy, Bartok, Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff seems no more and no less than other living composers may owe in those directions. What sets him a cut above others is the individual integration he has achieved out of those influences."
One of Williams' accomplishments is the 1986 orchestral tour-de-force Gulliver. He spent eight months writing the work, which was recorded by London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It tours widely, and is sometimes referred to as "Britain's national orchestra"...
, with narration by Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart
Larry Simon Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author.-Early life:...
(based on Jonathon Swift's writings) read by John Gielgud
John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937...
. For the concert premier, Williams conducted the Yale Philharmonia with Tony Randall
Tony Randall
Tony Randall was a U.S. actor, comic, producer and director.-Early years:Randall was born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Julia and Mogscha Rosenberg, an art and antiques dealer...
narrating.
Critics have also praised Williams' numerous concert-hall works. In addition to An American Concerto, Gulliver, Romances, Earth Day, Adagio, and August, they have included Suite Memories for trombone and symphony orchestra, which won a 1986 GRAMMY; Spring Wings, a double concerto for piano and saxophone and symphony orchestra; Appalachian Morning, recorded by the Boston Pops; Memento Mei for solo soprano and orchestra; The Prayer of St. Francis for flute and strings; and others.
Film credits
Partial List- Julian PoJulian Po-Plot:This is the story of a depressed man who comes into a town with no future. The title character wanders into a small sleepy town with the intent to kill himself. When the townspeople learn of his plan, Julian becomes a minor celebrity, and is offered all sorts of free perks since this is the...
, New Line Cinema: Christian Slater, Robin Tunney; Alan Wade, Dir. - That Old Feeling, Universal: Bette Midler, Dennis Farina; Carl Reiner, Dir.
- Stormchasers: Greg MacGillivray, Dir.
- The Grass HarpThe Grass Harp (1995 film)The Grass Harp is a 1995 dramatic-comedy film directed by Charles Matthau and starring Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Edward Furlong, and Nell Carter...
, New Line Cinema: Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek; Charles Matthau, Dir. - The Cutting EdgeThe Cutting EdgeThe Cutting Edge is a 1992 romantic comedy film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and written by Tony Gilroy. The plot is about a very rich, spoiled figure skater who is paired with a has-been ice hockey player for Olympic figure skating...
, MGM: D.B. Sweeney, Moira Kelly; Paul Glaser, Dir. - Cry-BabyCry-BabyCry-Baby is a 1990 American teen musical film written and directed by John Waters. It stars Johnny Depp as 1950s teen rebel "Cry-Baby" Wade Walker, and also features an expansive ensemble cast that includes Amy Locane, Iggy Pop, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake, Kim McGuire, David Nelson, Susan Tyrrell, and...
, Universal: Johnny Depp, Polly Bergen; John Waters, Dir. - In the Spirit, Marlo Thomas, Elaine May; Sandra SeacatSandra SeacatSandra Seacat is an American actor, director and acting teacher, whose students include Jessica Lange, Lance Henriksen, Laura Dern, Mickey Rourke, Meg Ryan and Steve Railsback...
, Dir. - Worth WinningWorth WinningWorth Winning is a 1989 film starring Mark Harmon and Madeleine Stowe, directed by Will Mackenzie. It was written by Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott, based on the novel by Dan Lewandowski.- Plot :...
, Mark Harmon, Madeleine Stowe; Will Mackenzie, Dir. - Fresh HorsesFresh HorsesFresh Horses is a 1988 drama film starring Andrew McCarthy and Molly Ringwald, directed by David Anspaugh.-Plot:A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party...
, Columbia: Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy; David Anspaugh, Dir. - Just Between FriendsJust Between FriendsJust Between Friends is a 1986 drama film about two women whose friendship is tested by tragedy. The film was written, produced and directed by Allan Burns, and it stars Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Danson, and Christine Lahti.-Plot summary:...
, Orion: Mary Tyler Moore, Sam Waterson, Christine Lahti; Allan Burns, Dir. - Violets Are BlueViolets Are Blue (film)Violets Are Blue... is a 1986 romance movie from Columbia Pictures, starring Sissy Spacek and Kevin Kline.-Story:After fifteen years of traveling around the world, a famous photographer named Gussie returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up...
, Columbia: Kevin Kline, Sissy Spacek; Jack Fisk, Dir. - The Slugger's WifeThe Slugger's WifeThe Slugger's Wife is a 1985 romantic comedy about a baseball star who falls for a singer. Written by Neil Simon, directed by Hal Ashby and produced by Ray Stark, the film stars Michael O'Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay and Randy Quaid. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and released on March 29,...
, Columbia: Michael O’Keefe, Rebecca De Mornay; Hal Ashby, Dir. - All of Me, Universal: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin; Carl Reiner, Dir.
- Best DefenseBest DefenseBest Defense is a comedy film starring Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy. It was released in 1984 by Paramount Pictures.-Plot:The movie takes place as two parallel plots separated by several years: Moore is an engineer developing a targeting system on a tank for the United States Army and Murphy is an...
, Paramount: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy; Willard Huyck, Dir. - The Buddy SystemThe Buddy System (film)The Buddy System is a 1984 American romantic comedy film starring Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Nancy Allen, Wil Wheaton and Jean Stapleton. The film was directed by Glenn A. Jordan who is better known for directing and producing numerous television films and television dramas...
, 20th Century Fox: Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon; Glenn Jordon, Dir. - Swing ShiftSwing Shift (film)Swing Shift is a 1984 feature film directed by Jonathan Demme and produced by and starring Goldie Hawn with Kurt Russell. It also starred Christine Lahti, Fred Ward and Ed Harris...
, Warner Bros.: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell; Jonathon Demme, Dir. - Marvin and Tige, 20TH Century Fox Classics: John Cassavetes, Billy Dee Williams; Eric Weston, Dir.
- The Toy, Columbia: Richard Pryor, Jackie Gleason; Richard Donner, Dir.
- The Best Little Whorehouse in TexasThe Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (film)The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is a 1982 film adaptation of the musical of the same name released by Universal Pictures, which was co-written and directed by Colin Higgins...
, Universal: Dolly Parton, Burt Reynolds; Colin Higgins, Dir. - Some Kind of HeroSome Kind of HeroSome Kind of Hero is a 1982 film starring Richard Pryor as a returning Vietnam War veteran having trouble adjusting to civilian life. Soon he is involved in an organized crime heist. It was directed by Michael Pressman....
, Paramount: Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder; Michael Pressman, Dir. - Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson; Clive Donner, Dir.
- How to Beat the High Co$t of LivingHow to Beat the High Co$t of LivingHow to Beat the High Co$t of Living is a 1980 comedy film, starring Jane Curtin, Susan Saint James and Jessica Lange. Also in the cast are Dabney Coleman, Fred Willard, Richard Benjamin, Eddie Albert, Cathryn Damon, and a cameo by Jane Curtin's fellow Saturday Night Live co-star Garrett Morris...
, Jessica Lange, Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin; Robert Scheer, Dir. - It's My TurnIt's My Turn (film)It's My Turn is a 1980 romantic comedy-drama film starring Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, and Charles Grodin.The film was directed by Claudia Weill and written by Eleanor Bergstein...
, Columbia: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas; Claudia Weill, Dir. - Used CarsUsed CarsUsed Cars is a 1980 comedy satire film. It stars Kurt Russell, Jack Warden , Deborah Harmon, and Gerrit Graham.Kurt Russell portrays a devious car salesman working for affable but monumentally unsuccessful used car dealer Luke Fuchs . Luke's principal rival, located directly across the street, is...
, Columbia: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden; Robert Zemeckis, Dir. - Wholly MosesWholly MosesWholly Moses! is a 1980 Biblical spoof similar to that of Monty Python's Life of Brian. Dudley Moore, between performances in 10 and Arthur, plays Old Testament-era idol maker Herschel, whose life and adventures seem to parallel that of the more famous Moses, all the while being misled to think he...
, Paramount: Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor; Gary Weis, Dir. - Hero at LargeHero at LargeHero at Large is a 1980 comedy film starring John Ritter and Anne Archer. The film was written by former Disney screenwriter, AJ Carothers and directed by Martin Davidson. The original music score was composed by Patrick Williams.-Plot:...
, MGM: John Ritter, Anne Archer; Martin Davidson, Dir. - Breaking AwayBreaking AwayBreaking Away is a 1979 American film. A coming of age story, it follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school. It stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern , Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley...
, 20th Century Fox: Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern; Peter Yates, Dir. - Butch and Sundance: The Early DaysButch and Sundance: The Early DaysButch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 Western film and prequel to the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It starred Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid....
, 20th Century Fox: Tom Berenger, William Katt; Richard Lester, Dir. - CubaCuba (film)Cuba is a 1979 drama film directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery, set during the build-up to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.Connery stars as a British mercenary who travels to Cuba, which is on the brink of revolution with the authority of dictator Fulgencio Batista collapsing every day...
, United Artists: Sean Connery, Brooke Adams; Richard Lester, Dir. - Casey's Shadow, Columbia: Walter Matthau; Martin Ritt, Dir.
- The One and OnlyThe One and Only (1978 film)The One and Only is a 1978 film comedy starring Henry Winkler, directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Gordon.Gordon went on to write and direct the movie Arthur.-Plot:...
, Paramount: Henry Winkler; Carl Reiner, Dir. - The Cheap DetectiveThe Cheap DetectiveThe Cheap Detective is a 1978 American satirical comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore as a follow-up to their successful Murder by Death ....
, Columbia: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Madeline Kahn; Robert Moore, Dir. - SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS is a 1973 horror film starring Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Reb Brown, and Strother Martin. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and written by Hal Dresner and Daniel C. Striepeke. The makeup effects were created by John Chambers and Nick Marcellino...
, Universal: Dirk Benedict, Strother Martin; Bernard L. Kowalski, Dir. - Evel KnievelEvel Knievel (film)Evel Knievel was a 1971 motion picture starring George Hamilton as motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel.- Story :The story is a biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life,...
, Paramount: George Hamilton; Marvin J. Chomsky, Dir. - Macho Callahan, Avco Embassy: David Janssen, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb; Bernard L. Kowalski, Dir.
- Don't Drink the WaterDon't Drink the Water (1969 film)Don't Drink the Water is a 1969 comedy film starring Jackie Gleason and directed by Howard Morris. It was based upon a 1966 play of the same name by Woody Allen, who hated this version. In 1994 he remade Water for television, with himself in the Gleason role...
, Avco Embassy: Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons; Howard Morris, Dir. - A Nice Girl Like Me, Avco Embassy: Barbara Ferris; Desmond Davis, Dir.
- How Sweet It Is!How Sweet It Is!How Sweet It Is! is a 1968 comedy movie starring James Garner and Debbie Reynolds, with a supporting cast including Terry-Thomas and Paul Lynde. Garner plays a photographer who brings his wife, Jenny, and teenage son, David, along on a Paris shoot, with both husband and wife struggling to stay...
, Avco Embassy: James Garner, Debbie Reynolds; Jerry Paris, Dir.
Television film credits
Partial List- HerculesHercules (TV miniseries)Hercules is a 2005 RHI Entertainment television miniseries, chronicling the life of the legendary Greek hero, Heracles, called Hercules in this series...
, NBC: Sean Astin, Leelee Sobieski, Timothy Dalton, Elizabeth Perkins - The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson StoryThe Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson StoryThe Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story is a TV movie based on the life of Laci Peterson that stars Dean Cain, Sarah Brown, Tracy Middendorf and Tom O'Brien.-Plot:...
, USA - When Angels Come To Town, CBS: Peter Falk
- John Christmas, CBS: Peter Falk
- James PattersonJames PattersonJames B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
's 1st to Die1st to Die1st to Die is the first book in the Women's Murder Club series, written by James Patterson. The series is about four friends who pool their skills together to crack San Francisco's toughest murder cases...
, NBC - We Were the MulvaneysWe Were the Mulvaneys (film)We Were the Mulvaneys was a 2002 TV movie that was based on the book of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. It was nominated for three Emmys.The movie was filmed in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada....
, Lifetime: Blythe Danner, Beau Bridges - Power & Beauty, Showtime: Natasha Henstridge
- Just Ask My Children, Lifetime: Virginia Madsen, Jeffrey Nordling
- BlondeBlonde (film)Blonde is a 2001 made-for-television film on the life of Marilyn Monroe. Australian actress Poppy Montgomery steps into the role of the blonde bombshell who transformed herself from Norma Jean Baker to the sexy Hollywood Icon.-Plot:...
, CBS: Poppy Montgomery, Kirstie Alley, Ann-Margret - Yesterday's Children, CBS: Jane Seymour, Hume Cronyn
- The Thin Blue LieThe Thin Blue LieThe Thin Blue Lie is a made for television film released on August 13, 2000 about Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Jonathan Neumann , who, along with his partner Phil Chadway , won the Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for a series of articles exposing Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo and the Philadelphia...
, Showtime: Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Paul Sorvino - The Three Stooges, ABC: Michael Chiklis, Paul Ben-Victor
- JesusJesus (1999 film)Jesus is a Biblical telefilm that retells the story of Jesus. It was shot in Morocco and Malta. It stars Jeremy Sisto as Jesus, Jacqueline Bisset as Mary of Nazareth, Debra Messing as Mary Magdalene and Gary Oldman as Pontius Pilate.-Overview:...
, CBS: Jeremy Sisto, Jacqueline Bisset, Gary Oldman - Miracle on the 17th Green, CBS: Robert Urich, Meredith Baxter
- Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story, CBS: Dana Delany, James Coburn, Kathy Baker
- A Song From the Heart, CBS: Amy Grant, D.W. Moffatt, Keith Carradine
- A Cooler Climate, Paramount: Sally Field, Judy Davis
- Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story, Lifetime: Wendi Malick
- Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris DukeToo Rich: The Secret Life of Doris DukeToo Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke is a four-part miniseries that first aired on CBS in 1999 staring motion picture legend Lauren Bacall and Richard Chamberlain. It is based on the book The Richest Girl In The World: by Stephanie Mansfield. In addition to Bob Colacello's profile of Ms...
, CBS: Lauren Bacall, Richard Chamberlain - A Knight in CamelotA Knight in CamelotA Knight in Camelot is a 1998 TV movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and Michael York. It was directed by Roger Young, distributed by Disney and is loosely based on Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.-Plot:...
, Disney: Whoopi Goldberg, Michael York - Passion's WayThe Reef (film)The Reef is a 1999 historical drama film directed by Robert Allan Ackerman based on the book by Edith Wharton. It starred Sela Ward, Timothy Dalton, Alicia Witt, Jamie Glover. It was filmed in Prague, Czech Republic in 1996 but did not premiere on CBS until July 1999.-Plot:The film is set in early...
, CBS: Sela Ward, Timothy Dalton - Soloman, CBS: Ben Cross, Max von Sydow
- Heart Full of Rain, CBS: Richard Crenna, Rick Schroder
- After JimmyAfter JimmyAfter Jimmy is a CBS 1996 TV movie, based on a true story, starring Meredith Baxter as a woman, with her family, mourning the suicide death of her teenage son...
, CBS: Meredith Baxter, Bruce Davison - Never Give Up: The Jimmy V Story, CBS: Anthony LaPaglia, Ronny Cox
- Ruby Ridge: An American Tragedy, CBS: Laura Dern, Randy Quaid
- A Brother's Promise: The Dan Jansen Story, Matt Keeslar, Jayne Brooke
- JourneyJourney (1995 film)Journey is a 1995 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie that aired on CBS on December 10, 1995. The film starred Jason Robards, Brenda Fricker, and Meg Tilly.-External links:*...
, Hallmark Hall of Fame – CBS: Jason Robards, Meg Tilly, Brenda Fricker - Tom Clancy's OP Center, CBS: Harry Hamlin
- Saved by the LightSaved by the LightSaved by the Light is a book by Dannion Brinkley describing his near-death experience . Brinkley was struck by lightning and was clinically dead for approximately twenty-eight minutes...
, Showtime: Eric Roberts - The West Side WaltzThe West Side WaltzThe West Side Waltz is a play by Ernest Thompson.The play focuses on Margaret Mary Elderdice, an aging, widowed pianist living in a dreary Upper West Side apartment, and her relationships with a prim, virginal violinist neighbor and the young companion who moves in for an extended stay.Thompson was...
, CBS: Liza Minnelli, Shirley MacLaine - Deadline For Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan, Meredith Baxter
- Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long, TNT: John Goodman, Anne Heche
- Take Me Home Again, Kirk Douglas, Craig T. Nelson
- Because Mommy Works, CBS: Anne Archer, John Heard
- The Gift of Love, CBS: Andy Griffith, Blair Brown
- Getting GottiGetting GottiGetting Gotti is a 1994 TV film centered on a Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney named Diane Giacalone, and her attempts to build a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case against John Gotti and the Gambino crime family. It was shot in Toronto, Ontario.-Cast:The movie starred...
, CBS: Lorraine Bracco, Anthony John Denison - The Corpse Had A Familiar Face, Elizabeth Montgomery, Dennis Farina
- Accidental Meeting, Paramount: Linda Gray, Linda Purl
- French SilkFrench SilkFor the assembler by machine language programmer Don French, see French Silk French Silk is a romance novel written by Sandra Brown. It was published in 1992 and made into a TV movie starring Susan Lucci and R. Lee Ermey.-External links:*...
, Susan Lucci, Lee Horsley - Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771, CBS: Robert Loggia, Scott Bakula
- Geronimo, TNT: Joseph Runningfox
- ZeldaZelda (film)Zelda is a 1993 television movie based on the lives of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald, artist and fellow author....
, TNT: Natasha Richardson, Timothy Hutton - Murder in the HeartlandMurder in the HeartlandMurder in the Heartland is a television miniseries aired on ABC in 1993. It was based on the 1957 murder spree carried out by 19 year-old Charles Starkweather throughout Nebraska and Wyoming. The first half of the miniseries covers the murders. The second half covers the trials of Starkweather and...
, Tim Roth, Fairuza Balk - Blind SpotBlind Spot (film)Blind Spot is a 1958 British drama film directed by Peter Maxwell and starring Robert MacKenzie, Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson, John Le Mesurier and Michael Caine in an early screen appearance....
, Hallmark Hall of Fame – CBS: Joanne Woodward, Laura Linney - Jewels, CBS: Annette O’Toole, Anthony Andrews
- In Broad DaylightIn Broad DaylightIn Broad Daylight is a true crime book detailing the killing of town bully Ken Rex McElroy in 1981 in Skidmore, Missouri. The book won an Edgar Award for best true crime in 1989, was a New York Times bestseller for 12 weeks and was adapted into a television movie...
, CBS: Brian Dennehy, Marcia Gay Harden
Television series credits
Partial List- MonkMonk (TV series)Monk is an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character, Adrian Monk. It originally ran from 2002 to 2009 and is primarily a mystery series, although it has dark and comic touches.The series debuted on July...
- Extreme
- Black Tie Affair
- Baltimore
- Cutters
- The Days and Nights of Molly DoddThe Days and Nights of Molly DoddThe Days and Nights of Molly Dodd is an NBC/Lifetime comedy-drama that aired from 1987 to 1991. It was created by Jay Tarses and starred Blair Brown in the title role.-Premise:...
- The SimpsonsThe SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
- The Slap Maxwell StoryThe Slap Maxwell StoryThe Slap Maxwell Story was a situation comedy broadcast in the United States by ABC as part of its 1987-88 lineup....
- FM
- AfterMASHAfterMASHAfterMASH was an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 26, 1983 to December 11, 1984. A spin-off of the series M*A*S*H , the show took place immediately following the end of the Korean War and chronicled the adventures of three characters from the original series: Colonel...
- Columbo
- Lou GrantLou Grant (TV series)Lou Grant is an American television drama series starring Ed Asner in the titular role as a newspaper editor. Unusual in American television, this drama series was a spinoff from a sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Aired from 1977 to 1982, Lou Grant won 13 Emmy Awards, including "Outstanding Drama...
- The Streets of San FranciscoThe Streets of San FranciscoThe Streets of San Francisco is a 1970s television police drama filmed on location in San Francisco, California, and produced by Quinn Martin Productions, with the first season produced in association with Warner Bros...
- The Bob Newhart ShowThe Bob Newhart ShowThe Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, , to April 1, . Comedian Bob Newhart portrayed a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers...
- The Mary Tyler Moore ShowThe Mary Tyler Moore ShowThe Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977...
- The Tony Randall ShowThe Tony Randall ShowThe Tony Randall Show is an American television sitcom that debuted on September 23, 1976 and aired on ABC during its first season and on CBS for its second and final season.-Synopsis:...
- The MagicianThe Magician (TV series)The Magician was an American television series that ran during the 1973–1974 season. It starred Bill Bixby as stage illusionist Anthony "Tony" Blake, a playboy philanthropist who used his skills to solve difficult crimes as needed. In the series pilot, the character was instead named Anthony...