Candice Bergen
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Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an American actress and former fashion model.
She is known for starring in two TV series, as the title character on the situation comedy Murphy Brown (1988–1998), for which she won five Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards; and as Shirley Schmidt on the comedy-drama Boston Legal (2004–2008), for which she was nominated for two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She starred in several major films throughout the mid 1960s to early 1980s such as The Sand Pebbles, Carnal Knowledge, The Wind and the Lion, and Gandhi and received an Academy Award nomination for her role in Starting Over. Her later career includes character roles in Miss Congeniality and Sweet Home Alabama.
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Let Them All Talk (2020)
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
Directed by: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Gemma Chan | Dianne Wiest | Candice Bergen | Meryl Streep | Lucas Hedges
Book Club (2018)
As: Sharon
Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Bill Holderman
Stars: Diane Keaton | Craig T. Nelson | Candice Bergen | Mary Steenburgen | Jane Fonda
Home Again (2017)
As: Lillian Stewart
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Stars: Michael Sheen | Reese Witherspoon | Nat Wolff | Pico Alexander | Jon Rudnitsky
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)
As: Julia Meyerowitz
An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Noah Baumbach
Stars: Ben Stiller | Emma Thompson | Adam Sandler | Dustin Hoffman | Grace Van Patten
Rules Don't Apply (2016)
As: Nadine Henly
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also ...
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Warren Beatty
Stars: Annette Bening | Warren Beatty | Matthew Broderick | Alec Baldwin | Lily Collins
In Their Own Words: Jim Henson (2015)
The film follows Henson’s career from his first work with his Muppets in the early 1950’s during television’s Golden Age up to his sudden and shocking death in 1990, as he transcended puppetry to become one of the most creative, prolific and influential artists of his time. Key events include his early television work with the Muppets while still a student at the University of Maryland, his ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Stars: Frank Oz | Brian Henson | Jim Henson | Lisa Henson | Cheryl Henson
Louis Malle, le rebelle (2015)
As: Self (archiveFootage)
Directed by: Pierre-Henri Gibert
Stars: Candice Bergen | Louis Malle
Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special (2015)
As: Herself
A three-hour prime-time special celebrating SNL 's fortieth year on the air.
Runtime: 154 min.
Directed by: Don Roy King
Stars: Candice Bergen | Dan Aykroyd | Fred Armisen | Alec Baldwin | Vanessa Bayer
Beautiful and Twisted (2015)
As: Bernice
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Christopher Zalla
Stars: Jude Ciccolella | Seychelle Gabriel | Candice Bergen | Paz Vega | Rob Lowe
A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014)
As: Donna Mitchler
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Tristram Shapeero
Stars: Jeffrey Tambor | Wendi McLendon-Covey | Lauren Graham | Robin Williams | Joel McHale
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014)
As: Herself
The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.
Directed by: Sally Norris
Stars: Candice Bergen | Anthony Hopkins | Michael Douglas | Richard Attenborough | Julian Fellowes
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013)
As: Herself
It's the most mythic of all American emporiums - and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodman's iconic history in Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Matthew Miele
Stars: William Fichtner | Candice Bergen | Joan Rivers | Ashley Olsen | Mary-Kate Olsen
Inequality for All (2013)
As: Murphy Brown
U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich tries to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Jacob Kornbluth
Stars: Mary Tyler Moore | Lily Tomlin | Dolly Parton | Tyne Daly | Robert Reich
Elusive Justice (2011)
As: Narrator
Narrated by Candice Bergen, Elusive Justice is an unprecedented examination of the more than six-decade global hunt for the 20th century's most notorious war criminals, thousands of whom are still presumed to be alive. Featuring intimate portraits of the Nazi hunters, the film also examines the nations and institutions that helped bring war criminals to justice or, in too many cases, helped them to escape.
Runtime: 116 min.
Stars: Candice Bergen
The Women of SNL (2010)
As: Fern (archive footage)
A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Jorma Taccone | Beth McCarthy-Miller | Paul Miller | Dave Wilson | Don Roy King
Stars: Kristen Wiig | Maya Rudolph | Tina Fey | Amy Poehler | Ana Gasteyer
The Romantics (2010)
As: Augusta Hayes
Seven close friends reunite for the wedding of two of their friends. Problems arise because the bride and the maid of honor have had a long rivalry over the groom.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Galt Niederhoffer
Stars: Anna Paquin | Josh Duhamel | Katie Holmes | Adam Brody | Dianna Agron
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas (2009)
Holiday special including brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous troublemaker "Gilly," and others. The special also features favorite holiday-themed sketches from SNL's 35-year history.
Stars: John Malkovich | James Franco | Justin Timberlake | Alec Baldwin | Hugh Laurie
Bride Wars (2009)
As: Marion St. Claire
Two best friends become rivals when their respective weddings are accidentally booked for the same day.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Gary Winick
Stars: Anne Hathaway | Kate Hudson | Bryan Greenberg | Chris Pratt | Steve Howey
The Women (2008)
As: Catherine Frazier
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Diane English
Stars: Annette Bening | Eva Mendes | Cloris Leachman | Meg Ryan | Debra Messing
Sex and the City (2008)
As: Enid Frick
A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.
Runtime: 145 min.
Directed by: Michael Patrick King
Stars: Kim Cattrall | Sarah Jessica Parker | Kristin Davis | Cynthia Nixon | Chris Noth
Footsteps (2003)
As: Daisy Lowendahl
Daisy Lowendahl (Bergen) is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan (Hall) who knows almost everything about her, and two men - one of whom may be trying to kill her, the other of whom could save her life, causing Daisy to be thrown into the middle of a real-life drama.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: John Badham
Stars: Candice Bergen | Michael Murphy | Bryan Brown | Bug Hall | Austin St. John
The In-Laws (2003)
As: Judy Tobias
Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Andrew Fleming
Stars: Lindsay Sloane | Candice Bergen | Michael Douglas | Ryan Reynolds | Albert Brooks
View from the Top (2003)
As: Sally Weston
A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Bruno Barreto
Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow | Mark Ruffalo | Candice Bergen | Christina Applegate | Marc Blucas
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
As: Mayor Kate Hennings
New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Andy Tennant
Stars: Rhona Mitra | Josh Lucas | Candice Bergen | Patrick Dempsey | Reese Witherspoon
Miss Congeniality (2000)
As: Kathy Morningside
When the local FBI office receives a letter from a terrorist known only as 'The Citizen', it's quickly determined that he's planning his next act at the Miss America beauty pageant. Because tough-as-nails Gracie Hart is the only female Agent at the office, she's chosen to go undercover as the contestant from New Jersey.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Stars: Michael Caine | William Shatner | Candice Bergen | Sandra Bullock | Benjamin Bratt
Mary & Tim (1996)
As: Mary Horton
Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him under her wing.
Directed by: Glenn A. Jordan
Stars: Candice Bergen | Tom McCarthy | Shirley Knight | Richard Kiley | Louise Latham
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995)
HBO documentary about movies
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Chuck Workman
Stars: Candice Bergen | Warren Beatty | Robert Altman | George Burns | Peter Coyote
Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music (1990)
As: Herself
A television special broadcast on PBS in honor of composer, songwriter, pianist, television writer and lyricist Joe Raposo after he passed away.
Runtime: 60 min.
Stars: Candice Bergen | Barbara Bush | Joe Raposo | Christopher Cerf | Marc Brugnoni
Helmut Newton: Frames from the Edge (1989)
As: Herself
A camera crew follows Helmut Newton, the fashion and ad photographer whose images of tall, blond, big-breasted women are part of the iconography of twentieth-century erotic fantasy. He's on the go from L.A., to Paris, to Monte-Carlo, to Berlin, where he was a youth until he escaped from the Nazis in 1936. We see him on shoots, interviewing models, and discussing his work.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Adrian Maben
Stars: Charlotte Rampling | Catherine Deneuve | Sigourney Weaver | Faye Dunaway | Helmut Newton
Mayflower Madam (1987)
As: Sydney Biddle Barrows
Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an exclusive escort service catering to the wealthy and affluent. From Sydney's rise to become a million-dollar, modern-day madam to her notorious plummet into bankruptcy and public disgrace, experience a private glimpse into the forbidden world of high-class ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Lou Antonio
Stars: Chris Sarandon | Candice Bergen | Caitlin Clarke | Jim Antonio | Debra Rogers
Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
As: Ewa Berwid
A crime drama dircted by Anthony Page.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Anthony Page
Stars: Jürgen Prochnow | Eli Wallach | Candice Bergen | Héctor Elizondo | Alison La Placa
Stick (1985)
As: Kyle McClaren
Ernest (Stick) Stickley just out of prison agrees to help a friend deliver a package. It's a setup and his friend is killed. Stick is going to find out why!
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Burt Reynolds
Stars: George Segal | Castulo Guerra | Candice Bergen | Charles Durning | Burt Reynolds
Arthur the King (1985)
As: Morgan Le Fay
Classic tale of King Arthur and how his wife is kidnapped by his evil sister. Lancelot is sent out to try and retrieve the lost queen and unfortunately falls in love with her. Forbidden love, revenge, family rivalry, and magic are all prominent themes.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Clive Donner
Stars: Malcolm McDowell | Candice Bergen | Edward Woodward | Joseph Blatchley | Dyan Cannon
2010 (1984)
As: SAL 9000
This is a sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It is now 2010 and both the Americans and the Russians are racing to get to Jupiter to investigate the black monolith (similar to the one found in Lunar Crater Clavius) which was found by the U.S.S. Discovery in orbit around Jupiter's moons. The U.S.S. Discovery's orbit is rapidly decaying and it will crash into IO but the Americans cannot get there in time to save ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Stars: Helen Mirren | John Lithgow | Bob Balaban | Roy Scheider | Keir Dullea
Gandhi (1982)
As: Margaret Bourke-White
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Runtime: 191 min.
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Candice Bergen | Edward Fox | Trevor Howard | John Gielgud
Rich and Famous (1981)
As: Merry Noel Blake
Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: George Cukor
Stars: Candice Bergen | David Selby | Meg Ryan | Jacqueline Bisset | Steven Hill
Starting Over (1979)
As: Jessica Potter
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Stars: Jill Clayburgh | Candice Bergen | Charles Durning | Burt Reynolds | Frances Sternhagen
Oliver's Story (1978)
As: Marcie Bonwit
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy ...
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: John Korty
Stars: Candice Bergen | Benson Fong | Edward Binns | Ryan O'Neal | Nicola Pagett
A Night Full of Rain (1978)
As: Lizzy
Lizzy (Candice Bergen), a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo (Giancarlo Giannini). Then finds she can't live with him or without him. Bergen (Murphy Brown) and Giannini (Seven Beauties) take both comic and fierce battle stations in this colorful excursion into the male/female combat zone. So what if the world, as we learn from the TV in Lizzy and Paolo's luxurious ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Candice Bergen | Michael Tucker | Giancarlo Giannini | Mario Scarpetta | Lucio Amelio
The Domino Principle (1977)
As: Elinore "Ellie" Tucker
Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was his skill with a rifle. Now, serving a long stretch in prison for murder, he has hit rock-bottom. But one day a man in a three-piece suit visits him in prison, a man he has never seen before, and informs him that he can ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Stars: Candice Bergen | Edward Albert | Mickey Rooney | Gene Hackman | Richard Widmark
The Wind and the Lion (1975)
As: Eden Pedecaris
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers. The attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: John Milius
Stars: Sean Connery | Geoffrey Lewis | Candice Bergen | John Huston | Brian Keith
Bite the Bullet (1975)
As: Miss Jones
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
Runtime: 132 min.
Directed by: Richard Brooks
Stars: Ian Bannen | Candice Bergen | Ben Johnson | James Coburn | Gene Hackman
11 Harrowhouse (1974)
As: Maren Shirell
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Aram Avakian
Stars: Candice Bergen | Charles Grodin | James Mason | Trevor Howard | John Gielgud
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
As: Susan
The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Candice Bergen | Ann-Margret | Rita Moreno | Jack Nicholson | Art Garfunkel
T.R. Baskin (1971)
As: T. R. Baskin
Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Stars: Candice Bergen | James Caan | Peter Boyle | Marcia Rodd | Erin Allin O'Reilly
Soldier Blue (1971)
As: Kathy Maribel Lee, 'Cresta'
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
Stars: Candice Bergen | Jorge Rivero | Donald Pleasence | John Anderson | Peter Strauss
The Hunting Party (1971)
As: Melissa Ruger
A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his infidel wife.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Don Medford
Stars: Oliver Reed | Candice Bergen | Gene Hackman | Ronald Howard | Simon Oakland
The Adventurers (1970)
As: Sue Ann Daley
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white ...
Runtime: 171 min.
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Stars: Ernest Borgnine | Candice Bergen | Alan Badel | Charles Aznavour | Thommy Berggren
Getting Straight (1970)
As: Jan
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with ...
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Richard Rush
Stars: Elliott Gould | Candice Bergen | Jeff Corey | Cecil Kellaway | Robert F. Lyons
The Magus (1968)
As: Lily
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Guy Green
Stars: Michael Caine | Candice Bergen | Anthony Quinn | Anna Karina
The Day the Fish Came Out (1967)
As: Electra Brown
A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists ...
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Mihalis Kakogiannis
Stars: Candice Bergen | Sam Wanamaker | Ian Ogilvy | Colin Blakely | Tom Courtenay
Live for Life (1967)
As: Candice
Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.
Runtime: 130 min.
Directed by: Claude Lelouch
Stars: Candice Bergen | Annie Girardot | Yves Montand | Anouk Ferjac | Uta Taeger
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
As: Shirley Eckert
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must ...
Runtime: 182 min.
Directed by: Robert Wise
Stars: Candice Bergen | Richard Attenborough | Richard Crenna | Steve McQueen | Mako
The Group (1966)
As: Lakey
Sidney Lumet's adaptation of the acclaimed Mary McCarthy novel. It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their ...
Runtime: 150 min.
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Candice Bergen | Shirley Knight | Joan Hackett | Joanna Pettet | Elizabeth Hartman