Stockard Channing
Actor
Stockard Channing (born February 13, 1944) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role in both the stage and screen versions of Six Degrees of Separation.
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Pulling Strings (2013)
As: Virginia
Rachel is an intelligent, modern-day woman constantly on the move. Primarily focused on her career as a diplomatic consul for the U.S. embassy, she's literally lived her life on the move, globe-trotting from city to city. Currently working in Mexico City and set to leave for London, Rachel's world turns upside down on the eve of her own goodbye party when she gets drunk and passes out ...
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Pedro Pablo Ibarra
Stars: Stockard Channing | Laura Ramsey | Jaime Camil | Omar Chaparro | Renata Ybarra
Sundays at Tiffany's (2010)
Alyssa Milano, who also serves as producer, stars as Jane Claremont, who, as a young girl, would accompany her mother Vivian (Stockard Channing) to Tiffany’s in New York every Sunday and bring along her imaginary friend, Michael. Now, 20 years later, Jane is a successful businesswoman, set to marry Hugh (Ivan Sergei), her handsome fiancé, until Michael (Eric Winter) suddenly reappears.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Mark Piznarski
Stars: Alyssa Milano | Kristin Booth | Emily Alyn Lind | Eric Winter | Ivan Sergei
Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
As: Pamela
Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing. Although his marriage ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Brooks Branch
Stars: Timothy Hutton | Mira Sorvino | Dana Delany | Mario Van Peebles | Stockard Channing
Sparkle (2007)
As: Sheila
Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her estranged daughter, too.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Neil Hunter | Tom Hunsinger
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Stockard Channing | Lesley Manville | Shaun Evans | Anthony Stewart Head
3 Needles (2005)
As: Olive Cowie
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor (Ashmore) schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun (Sevigny) makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative (Liu) posing as a goverment-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Thom Fitzgerald
Stars: Shawn Ashmore | Chloë Sevigny | Stockard Channing | Lucy Liu | Olympia Dukakis
Must Love Dogs (2005)
As: Dolly
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Gary David Goldberg
Stars: Diane Lane | John Cusack | Christopher Plummer | Dermot Mulroney | Elizabeth Perkins
Red Mercury (2005)
As: Penelope
Three young Muslim men, part of a terror cell, are making a bomb in a London flat, when they get a call to vacate immediately with their gear. The police have been alerted and they are under suspicion.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Roy Battersby
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite | Stockard Channing | Ron Silver | David Bradley | Juliet Stevenson
Jack (2004)
As: Anne
Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn out to have a gay dad as well and his best friend's parents end up not having the perfect marriage Jack thought they had.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Lee Rose
Stars: Anton Yelchin | Stockard Channing | Brent Spiner | Ron Silver | Erich Anderson
Home of the Brave (2004)
As: Narrator
Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its effect on her family.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Paola di Florio
Stars: Stockard Channing
Anything Else (2003)
As: Paula Chase
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Woody Allen
Stars: Stockard Channing | Danny DeVito | Woody Allen | Christina Ricci | Jason Biggs
Bright Young Things (2003)
As: Mrs. Melrose Ape
in the 1930’s a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things.” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is well connected but totally broke, is desperately trying to get enough money to marry the beautiful Nina. While his attempts to raise cash are constantly thwarted, ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Stephen Fry
Stars: Emily Mortimer | Michael Sheen | James McAvoy | Stephen Campbell Moore | Fenella Woolgar
Behind the Red Door (2003)
As: Julia
Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best friend Julia (Stockard Channing) arranges for her to accept a lucrative contract with a Boston ad agency, Natalie discovers that she will ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Matia Karrell
Stars: Kiefer Sutherland | Stockard Channing | Chuck Shamata | Kyra Sedgwick | Hannah Lochner
Life or Something Like It (2002)
As: Deborah Connors
A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead he tells her that her life has no meaning and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Stephen Herek
Stars: Edward Burns | Angelina Jolie | Tony Shalhoub | Christian Kane | Melissa Errico
The Matthew Shepard Story (2002)
As: Judy Shepard
In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the final days of Matthew's killers' trial—and the weeks leading to Matthew's death—with unnerving detail. Stockard Channing delivers an unforgettable, Emmy® Award-winning performance as Matthew's grieving mother, Judy, in a story of a murder that moved a ...
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
Stars: Stockard Channing | Joseph Ziegler | Wendy Crewson | Shane Meier | Kristen Thomson
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002)
As: Margarethe Fisher Van Den Meer
A look at the classic "Cinderella" story from the perspective of one of her 'ugly' stepsisters
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Gavin Millar
Stars: Stockard Channing | Trudie Styler | Azura Skye | Jenna Harrison | Emma Poole
When Billie Beat Bobby (2001)
As: Narrator (voice)
.The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jane Anderson
Stars: Bob Gunton | Elizabeth Berridge | Ron Silver | Holly Hunter | Jacqueline McKenzie
The Business of Strangers (2001)
Julie Styron thinks she is going to be fired, but instead discovers that she is being promoted. Trapped in an airport hotel, she wants to celebrate but finds only the company of her young assistant, Paula Murphy. As the night progresses, the two women get to know each other. They flirt, they drink, they lie; personal flaws are revealed and exposed. But at the end of the night their relationship turns and ...
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Patrick Stettner
Stars: Stockard Channing | Marcus Giamatti | Frederick Weller | Julia Stiles | Jack Hallett
The Truth About Jane (2000)
As: Janice
Jane, a high school teenager, tries to deal with the discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl who makes her discover her true sexuality, which is only the start of Jane's troubles when Jane's unaccepting mother, Janice, struggles with her surprising revelation of brought forth by her only daughter.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Lee Rose
Stars: Stockard Channing | RuPaul | Jenny O'Hara | Kelly Rowan | Ellen Muth
Where The Heart Is (2000)
As: Thelma 'Sister' Husband
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, some eccentric, kindly strangers "adopt" Novalee and her infant daughter, helping them buck the odds and build a new life.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Matt Williams
Stars: Natalie Portman | Sally Field | Stockard Channing | Ashley Judd | Joan Cusack
Isn't She Great (2000)
As: Florence Maybelle
An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann, the famed writer of "The Valley Of The Dolls" and other trashy novels. Facing a failing career, Susann meets a successful promoter who becomes her husband. After several failures to place her in commercials and a TV quiz show, he hits upon the idea for her to become a writer. ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Andrew Bergman
Stars: Stockard Channing | John Cleese | David Hyde Pierce | Nathan Lane | Bette Midler
Other Voices (2000)
As: Dr. Gover
Phil and Anna are a young, married couple, who begin to suspect one other of an affair. When a shady private investigator gets involved in their relationship, things begin to spin out of control, in this turn-of-the-millennium thriller.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Dan McCormack
Stars: David Aaron Baker | Stockard Channing | Mary McCormack | Campbell Scott | Rob Morrow
The Venice Project (1999)
As: Chandra Chase
In this witty drama, the future of art is examined from two vantage points: the years 1699 and 1999. Roland (Dennis Hopper) is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister, Countess Camilla Volta (Lauren Bacall), lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father, The Viscount (John Wood), is near death, and he announces, to the disappointment of both his offspring, that his home and ...
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Robert Dornhelm
Stars: Ben Cross | Dennis Hopper | Linus Roache | Lauren Bacall | Stuart Townsend
Practical Magic (1998)
As: Tante Frances 'Fran' Owens
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their ...
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Griffin Dunne
Stars: Stockard Channing | Nicole Kidman | Evan Rachel Wood | Sandra Bullock | Goran Visnjic
The Baby Dance (1998)
As: Rachel Luckman
Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home with her family in a grungy trailer park, Wanda Le Fauve thinks she has found the solution to her problems when she reads a newspaper and agrees to meet well-to-do Rachel Luckman and her husband. The childless Luckman's are desperate to raise a baby and Wanda is anxious to find a home for her latest. They strike a deal, and at first ...
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Jane Anderson
Stars: Stockard Channing | Sandra Seacat | Peter Riegert | Richard Lineback | Laura Dern
An Unexpected Life (1998)
As: Barbara Whitney
Sequel to "An Unexpected Family."
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: David Hugh Jones
Stars: Stockard Channing | Christine Ebersole | Jenny O'Hara | Elaine Stritch | Stephen Collins
Twilight (1998)
As: Lt. Verna Hollander
A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Robert Benton
Stars: Stockard Channing | Susan Sarandon | Paul Newman | Reese Witherspoon | Gene Hackman
An Unexpected Family (1996)
As: Barbara Whitney
When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to like each other. Then over a year later Ruth comes back saying she wants her kids and Barbara goes to court to fight for custody.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Larry Elikann
Stars: Stockard Channing | Christine Ebersole | Jenny O'Hara | Noah Fleiss | Stephen Collins
The First Wives Club (1996)
As: Cynthia Swann Griffin
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Hugh Wilson
Stars: Diane Keaton | Maggie Smith | Dan Hedaya | Bette Midler | Goldie Hawn
Moll Flanders (1996)
As: Mrs. Allworthy
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but ...
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Pen Densham
Stars: Morgan Freeman | Robin Wright | Brenda Fricker | John Lynch | Stockard Channing
Lily Dale (1996)
As: Corella
A precocious teenager abruptly altered family life. His brother, a young a little strange, returns home after years away and threatens to reveal a secret that could devastate the family.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Peter Masterson
Stars: Stockard Channing | Sam Shepard | Mary Stuart Masterson | Tim Guinee | John Slattery
Edie & Pen (1996)
As: Pen
In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman who neglected her.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Matthew Irmas
Stars: Stuart Wilson | Jennifer Tilly | Stockard Channing | Chris Sarandon | Scott Glenn
Up Close & Personal (1996)
As: Marcia McGrath
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news ...
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Jon Avnet
Stars: Stockard Channing | Robert Redford | Joe Mantegna | Michelle Pfeiffer | Kate Nelligan
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree (1995)
As: Miss Adelaide
A single Christmas tree becomes the source of cheer for the people and animals living around Mr. Willowby's estate. Based on the children's book of the same name.
Runtime: 30 min.
Directed by: Jon Stone
Stars: Stockard Channing | Robert Downey Jr. | Leslie Nielsen | Steve Whitmire | Kevin Clash
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
As: Carol Ann
Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows the local homophobic rednecks that appearing different doesn't mean they don't have humanity in common.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Stars: Jason London | Stockard Channing | John Leguizamo | Wesley Snipes | Patrick Swayze
Smoke (1995)
As: Ruby McNutt
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Wayne Wang | Paul Auster
Stars: Giancarlo Esposito | William Hurt | Harvey Keitel | Stephen Gevedon | José Zúñiga
Clay Classics: Michael the Visitor (1995)
As: Narrator (voice)
Stockard Channing narrates this inspiring story adapted from Leo Tolstoy's tale "Truths We Live By." Simon the shoemaker barely makes enough to get by, but that doesn't stop the kind cobbler from taking in a needy homeless man named Michael. Simon provides Michael with food, shelter and a job as his assistant. Mysteries unfold, relationships strengthen and new purpose is found as Simon slowly ...
Directed by: Lindsay Van Blerk
Stars: Stockard Channing | Ronald France | Gordon Van Rooyen | Andrew Brent | Diedre Woolhuter
David's Mother (1994)
As: Bea
Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Robert Allan Ackerman
Stars: Stockard Channing | Chris Sarandon | Sam Waterston | Kirstie Alley | Michael A. Goorjian
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
As: Louisa Kittredge
The story of a young, gay black con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Fred Schepisi
Stars: Ian McKellen | Stockard Channing | Donald Sutherland | Will Smith | Mary Beth Hurt
Married to It (1993)
As: Iris Morden
Tale of three different couples (Yuppies, Hippies, and Society Folk) who find some common ground and become friends after being assigned to the same school project. Their lives are turned upside down by divorce, indictment, and sex but their friendship remains strong.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Beau Bridges | Stockard Channing | Mary Stuart Masterson | Robert Sean Leonard | Cybill Shepherd
Lincoln (1992)
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Runtime: 240 min.
Directed by: James A. Edgar | Peter W. Kunhardt
Stars: James Earl Jones | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Jason Robards | Glenn Close | Richard Widmark
Meet the Applegates (1991)
As: Jane Applegate
Giant preying mantis living in a south American jungle decide to move into suburban USA. Disguised as humans, the mantis are planning something.. Could it be connected to dad's job in the power station perhaps ?. One day the daughter mantis forgets WHAT she really is when she's with her boyfriend.. oops. Written by s jones
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Michael Lehmann
Stars: Stockard Channing | Ed Begley Jr. | Dabney Coleman | Robert Jayne | Camille Cooper
Perfect Witness (1989)
As: Liz Sapperstein
A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Robert Mandel
Stars: Brian Dennehy | Stockard Channing | Aidan Quinn | Delroy Lindo | Laura Harrington
Staying Together (1989)
As: Nancy Trainer
After their father abruptly sells the beloved family-owned restaurant that has employed them for years, the charismatic McDermott boys - hot-tempered Brian (Quill), lovelorn Kit (Mulroney) and jokester Duncan (Astin) - find themselves at odds with their parents and each other.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Lee Grant
Stars: Sean Astin | Stockard Channing | Daphne Zuniga | Jim Haynie | Melinda Dillon
A Time of Destiny (1988)
As: Margaret
World War II provides the setting for a melodramatic tale of love and revenge.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Gregory Nava
Stars: Timothy Hutton | Stockard Channing | Melissa Leo | William Hurt | Megan Follows
Echoes In The Darkness (1987)
As: Susan Reinert
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years
Runtime: 250 min.
Directed by: Glenn A. Jordan
Stars: Stockard Channing | Robert Loggia | Peter Boyle | Peter Coyote | Cindy Pickett
The Room Upstairs (1987)
As: Leah Lazenby
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Stuart Margolin
Stars: Clancy Brown | Stockard Channing | Linda Hunt | Sam Waterston | Joan Allen
The Men's Club (1986)
As: Nancy
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Peter Medak
Stars: Harvey Keitel | Frank Langella | David Dukes | Richard Jordan | Roy Scheider
Heartburn (1986)
As: Julie Siegel
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Stockard Channing | Jeff Daniels | Maureen Stapleton | Meryl Streep | Jack Nicholson
Not My Kid (1985)
As: Helen Bower
A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Michael Tuchner
Stars: George Segal | Stockard Channing | Andrew Robinson | Gary Bayer | Nancy Cartwright
Without a Trace (1983)
As: Jocelyn Norris
Based on the case of young New Yorker Etan Patz, who disappeared in the early 1980s, this film casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who make her and her husband suspects, even as she hounds them to find her child and drives away her husband (David Dukes) and friends (including Stockard Channing) with her ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Stanley R. Jaffe
Stars: Stockard Channing | Kate Nelligan | David Dukes | Jacqueline Brookes | Judd Hirsch
Safari 3000 (1982)
As: J. J. Dalton
Reporter J.J. wants to write a story about an Afrika rallye, 3000 km across desert and steppe. Unfortunately her driver and car get lost only days before the start, so she hires ex-stuntman Eddie and buys a wreck of a car from her last money. Eddie can help her to a new motor - by stealing it from the ruthless count Borgia, who from now on is their hardest and meanest competitor in the rallye.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Harry Hurwitz
Stars: Christopher Lee | Stockard Channing | David Carradine | Hamilton Camp | Ian Yule
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
As: Mona Mondieu
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Gilbert Moses
Stars: Jack Kehoe | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Jonathan Winters | Meadowlark Lemon | Julius Erving
Grease (1978)
As: Betty Rizzo
Australian good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. But when they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance despite their eccentric friends?
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Randal Kleiser
Stars: Stockard Channing | Olivia Newton-John | Jeff Conaway | John Travolta | Didi Conn
The Cheap Detective (1978)
As: Bess
Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Robert Moore
Stars: Stockard Channing | Ann-Margret | Peter Falk | Sid Caesar | Eileen Brennan
A Different Approach (1978)
An all-star educational film about the positive side of hiring people with disabilities. A board sit and watch the film Michael Keaton's character's assembled to sell companies on hiring the handicapped, which takes "a different approach" by combining several approaches--most of them suggested by Hollywood personalities.
Runtime: 21 min.
Directed by: Fern Field
Stars: Stockard Channing | Michael Keaton | Melissa Sue Anderson | Lucie Arnaz | Norman Lear
Sweet Revenge (1976)
As: Vurlla Kowsky
Sweet Revenge was originally shipped out as Dandy, the All-American Girl. The multitalented Stockard Channing plays a car thief with a penchant for elaborate disguises. She hopes to trade in her stolen goods and purchase a snazzy sports model for herself. Sam Waterston costars as a public defender who, much against his will, falls in love with the charming thief. Producer/director Jerry Schatzberg seems so ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg
Stars: Stockard Channing | Norman Matlock | Sam Waterston | Franklyn Ajaye | Richard Daughty
The Big Bus (1976)
As: Kitty Baxter
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear powered bus is making it's maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down on his luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: James Frawley
Stars: Stockard Channing | Ned Beatty | John Beck | Rene Auberjonois | Joseph Bologna
The Fortune (1975)
As: Freddie
Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them . Not even murder.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Stockard Channing | Warren Beatty | Jack Nicholson | Ian Wolfe | Rose Michtom
The Girl Most Likely to... (1973)
As: Miriam Knight
An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.
Runtime: 64 min.
Directed by: Lee Philips
Stars: Stockard Channing | Joe Flynn | Jim Backus | Chuck McCann | Ed Asner
Up the Sandbox (1972)
As: Judy Stanley
A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Irvin Kershner
Stars: David Selby | Paul Benedict | Barbra Streisand | Ariane Heller | Jacobo Morales
The Hospital (1971)
As: E.R. Nurse
A suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Arthur Hiller
Stars: Diana Rigg | George C. Scott | Stephen Elliott | Richard Dysart | Barnard Hughes