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Richard Masur
Richard D. Masur (born November 20, 1948) is an American actor who has appeared in over 80 movies during his career. He served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) from 1995 to 1999. Masur sits on the Corporate Board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
Masur was born in New...
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Heaven's Gate
Heaven's Gate is a 1980 western movie based on the Johnson County War, a dispute between land barons and European immigrants in Wyoming in the 1890s. The film's production was plagued by cost and time overruns, negative press, and rumors about...
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It
It (also referred to as Stephen King's It) is a 1990 horror television miniseries based on the novel of the same name. The film stars Tim Curry in the eponymous role of "It" (also known as Pennywise).
The miniseries was filmed in New Westminster,...
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License to Drive
License to Drive is a 1988 teen comedy/adventure film, starring Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Heather Graham, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Michael Manasseri and Nina Siemaszko. The screenplay was written by Neil Tolkin. It also marked Greg Beeman's...
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Nightmares
Nightmares is a 1983 film with four tales of horror, starring Emilio Estevez and Lance Henriksen. The film is directed by T.V. veteran Joseph Sargent and began as a television project of four horror stories. The results were deemed too strong for...
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Palindromes
Palindromes is a 2004 comedy-drama film written and directed by Todd Solondz. In the same year it was released, Palindromes was nominated for a Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival.
The protagonist, a 13-year-old girl named Aviva, is played...
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Risky Business
Risky Business is a 1983 comedy-drama film written by Paul Brickman in his directorial debut. It is best known for being the film that launched Tom Cruise to stardom.
The film also stars Rebecca De Mornay as Lana and Joe Pantoliano as Guido. It...
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The Mean Season
The Mean Season is a 1985 thriller directed by Phillip Borsos. The film stars Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, and Andy Garcia. The screenplay was written by Leon Piedmont, based on the novel In the Heat...
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John Carpenter's The Thing
The Thing is a 1982 science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other...
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Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swan
Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, directed by William Dear, is a 1982 time travel movie starring Fred Ward as Lyle Swann, a cross country dirt bike racer. The movie was written and produced by former Monkee, Michael Nesmith.
As the film opens,...
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Mr. Boogedy
Mr. Boogedy is a 1986 family film, directed by Oz Scott and written by Michael Janover, which originally aired as an episode of "The Disney Sunday Movie" on ABC. This telefilm was shot in Walt Disney Studios. It tells the story of a gag gift...
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Forget Paris
Forget Paris is a 1995 film produced, directed, co-written by and starring Billy Crystal as an NBA referee and Debra Winger as an independent working woman whose lives are interrupted by love and marriage.
It also stars Julie Kavner, Joe Mantegna,...
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Bride of Boogedy
Bride of Boogedy is a 1987 family film, directed by Oz Scott and written by Michael Janover, which originally aired as an episode of "The Disney Sunday Movie" on ABC. It tells the continuing story of the Davis family and their encounters with an...
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Who'll Stop the Rain
Who'll Stop The Rain is a 1978 psychological drama film made by Katzka-Jaffe and released by United Artists. It was directed by Karel Reisz and produced by Herb Jaffe and Gabriel Katzka with Sheldon Schrager and Roger Spottiswoode as executive...
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Under Fire
Under Fire is a political film set in 1979, during the last days of the Somoza regime in Nicaragua. The story is fictional, but was inspired by actual events. The musical score by Jerry Goldsmith, which featured well-known jazz guitarist Pat Metheny...
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The Believers
The Believers is a horror/neo-noir film directed by John Schlesinger, released in 1987 and starring Martin Sheen, Robert Loggia and Helen Shaver. It is based on the 1982 novel The Religion by Nicholas Conde. Sheen and co-star Jimmy Smits would both...
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My Girl
My Girl is a comedy-drama film released in 1991 that focuses on the coming-of-age of a young girl. It features Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin and Anna Chlumsky in her feature film debut. It was written by Laurice Elehwany and...
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Mr. Horn
Mr. Horn is a 1979 made for TV movie chronicling the life of Tom Horn. It was directed by Jack Starrett from a screenplay by William Goldman.
Tom Horn's life is covered from his early days as an army scout, to his time as a Pinkerton agent,...
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Heartburn
Heartburn is a 1986 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Nora Ephron is based on her semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, which was inspired by her tempestuous second marriage to Carl Bernstein and his affair with...
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My Science Project
My Science Project is a 1985 comedy science fiction film directed by Jonathan R. Betuel.
Tagline: The funniest sci-fi movie this summer.
We must not destroy the world.
Gearhead Michael and bookworm Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a...
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Lovely By Surprise
Lovely By Surprise is a 2007 film directed by Kirt Gunn. It stars Carrie Preston, Michael Chernus, Austin Pendleton and Reg Rogers.
Facing an intense bout of writer's block, novelist Marian Walker (Carrie Preston) seeks advice from her mentor and ex...
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Far From Home
Far From Home is a 1989 Suspense/Independent Film/thriller (with slasher elements) starring Drew Barrymore, Matt Frewer, Jennifer Tilly, Dick Miller and the late John Spencer in a cameo role. It centered on a divorced father who breaks down in a...
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The Burning Bed
The Burning Bed is a non-fiction book by Faith McNulty about battered Dansville, Michigan housewife, Francine Hughes. After thirteen years of domestic abuse at the hands of her husband James Berlin ("Mickey") Hughes, she set fire to the bed he was...
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Head Office
Head Office is a 1985 comedy film. It stars Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Jane Seymour, Richard Masur, Michael O'Donoghue, Ron Frazier, Merritt Butrick and was directed and written by Ken Finkleman.
Jack Issel (Reinhold) just...
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Fallen Angel
Fallen Angel is a 1981 made-for-TV film directed by Robert Michael Lewis and written by Lew Hunter, exploring pedophilia and starring Dana Hill, Melinda Dillon, Richard Masur and Ronny Cox. The film received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for...
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The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake is a 1990 TV movie about a massive earthquake that strikes Los Angeles, California. The movie stars Joanna Kerns in the movie's lead role, seismologist Clare Winslow, who tries to warn city leaders of the possibility...
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