James Spader Filmography

Film Name: TEAM MATES
Year: 1978
Synopsis: A High School football team goes crazy when a head strong girl decides to try out for the team.
Character Name: Jimmy.
Character Description: Drunk kid at a birthday party.
Supporting Actors: Karen Corrado and Max Goff.

Film Name: ENDLESS LOVE
Year: 1981
Synopsis: Two young lovers trying to keep their relationship, despite unhappy family members.
Character Name: Keith.
Character Description: The older brother of the sister who's in love. He tries to breakup the relationship.
Supporting Actors: Brooke Shields, Martin Hewitt and Shirley Knight.

Film Name: COCAINE: ONE MAN'S SEDUCTION
Year: 1983
Synopsis: A family struggles when the husband/father becomes addicted to cocaine.
Character Name: Buddy Gant
Character Description: Teenager who's very much against drugs, and is tormented by his father's addiction.
Supporting Actors: Dennis Weaver and Karen Grassle.

Film Name: A KILLER IN THE FAMILY
Year: 1983
Synopsis: Three brothers help their father break out of prison.
Character Name: Donnie Tison
Character Description: The oldest brother with a promising career in Law, struggling with having
to free his father.
Supporting Actors: Robert Mitchim and Eric Stoltz.

Film Name: FAMILY SECRETS
Year: 1984
Synopsis: Three generations of women reunite when the eldest is moving away.
Character Name: Lowell Everall
Character Description: An old friend of Melissa Gilbert's character.
Supporting Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Stephanie Powers and Jean Stapleton.

Film Name: THE NEW KIDS
Year: 1984
Synopsis: A brother and sister move to Flordia after their parents are killed, only to wind up being the
targets of a dangerous group of deliquents.
Character Name: Dutra
Character Description: The insane leader of the deliquent group.
Supporting Actors: Shannon Presby, Lori Loughlin and Eric Stoltz.

Film Name: STARCROSSED
Year: 1985
Synopsis: A young man falls for an alien woman.
Character Name: Joey Callaghan
Character Description: Tries to help the alien woman get back to her planet.
Supporting Actors: Belinda Bauer and Clark Johnson.

Film Name: TUFF TURF
Year: 1985
Synopsis: A new kid falls for the wrong girl, and winds up the target of her crazed boyfriend.
Character Name: Morgan Hiller
Character Description: The new kid in town with a past of unfortuate incidents.
Supporting Actors: Kim Richards and Robert Downey, Jr.

Film Name: PRETTY IN PINK
Year: 1986
Synopsis: A rich guy falls for a girl from the other side of the tracks.
Character Name: Steff
Character Description: Rich snob who makes it difficult for the couple's relationship to flourish.
Supporting Actors: Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer and Annie Potts.

Film Name: BABY BOOM
Year: 1987
Synopsis: A successful woman's life gets turned upside down when she inherits a baby.
Character Name: Ken Arrenberg
Character Description: A young entreprennuer who takes advantage of the woman's baby misfortune, to move up in the company.
Supporting Actors: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard and Harold Ramis.

Film Name: THE DISCOVERY PROGRAM
Year: 1987
Synopsis: All I know is that there a four different short stories included, Spader appears in the story called "Greasy Lake". The story is about three friends out for a joyride, who get entangled with a rough gang.
Character Name: Digby
Supporting Actors: Eric Stoltz

Film Name: LESS THAN ZERO
Year: 1987
Synopsis: Three lifelong friends' relationships are tested after one of them gets heavy into drugs.
Character Name: Rip
Character Description: A drug dealer who is eager to get the money he is owed.
Supporting Actors: Anderw McCarthy, Robert Downey, Jr. and Jami Gertz.

Film Name: MANNEQUIN
Year: 1987
Synopsis: A man creates a mannequin that comes to life.
Character Name: Mr. Richards
Character Description: A slimy co-worker who tries to get the man fired.
Supporting Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Kim Catrall and Estelle Getty.

Film Name: WALL STREET
Year: 1987
Synopsis: Takes a look at double-dealing within the stock market
Character Name: Roger Barnes
Character Description: Takes a look at double-dealing within the stock market.
Supporting Actors: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Daryl Hannah and Martin Sheen.

Film Name: JACK'S BACK
Year: 1988
Synopsis: After his twin is viciously murdered, his brother sets out to find his killer, before he kills again.
Character Name: Rick/John Westford
Character Description: A streetwise young man/ A young doctor.
Supporting Actors: Cynthia Gibb, Robert Picardo and Rod Loomis.

Film Name: THE RACHEL PAPERS
Year: 1989
Synopsis: A young man devises a plan to get an older girl to go out with him.
Character Name: Deforest
Character Description: Handsome boyfriend of the girl who is being saught after.
Supporting Actors: Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye.

Film Name: SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
Year: 1989
Synopsis: An old friend comes to visit his now married friend from school, and exposes the affair he's been having with his wife's sister.
Character Name: Graham
Character Description: A handsome soft spoken man with a fetish of videotapes about sex.
Supporting Actors: Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell and Laura San Giacomo.

Film Name: WHITE PALACE
Year: 1990
Synopsis: An older woman falls for a much younger man.
Character Name: Max Baron
Character Description: A young yuppie who's wife passed away suddenly.
Supporting Actors: Susan Sarandon, Jason Alexander and Eileen Brennen.

Film Name: BAD INFLUENCE
Year: 1990
Synopsis: A deranged man squeezes his way into another man's life, and tries to corrupt him.
Character Name: Michael Boll
Character Description: A young businessman trying to get his life back.
Supporting Actors: Rob Lowe, Lisa Zane and Christian Clemenson.

Film Name: TRUE COLORS
Year: 1991
Synopsis: Two friends are at odds after one of them gets involved in bad politics.
Character Name: Tim Garrity
Character Description: A man struggling to save his friendship with his best friend, but ends up turning him in..
Supporting Actors: John Cusack, Richard Windmark and Mandy Patankin.

Film Name: BOB ROBERTS
Year: 1992
Synopsis: A folksinger decides to run for the senate, in this satirical look at politics.
Character Name: Chuck Marlin
Character Description: A TV news journalist.
Supporting Actors: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito and Gore Vidal.

Film Name: STORYVILLE
Year: 1992
Synopsis: A senatorial candidate gets framed, and tries to find out why, only to find out some secrets about his family's past.
Character Name: Cray Fowler
Character Description: A candidate for the senate.
Supporting Actors: Jason Robards, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Piper Laurie.

Film Name: THE MUSIC OF CHANCE
Year: 1993
Synopsis: A drifter and a card shark team up in the poker game of the century against two millionaires.
Character Name: Jack Pozzi
Character Description: Brilliant card player trying to win back the money he lost.
Supporting Actors: Mandy Patinkin, M.Emmet Walsh, Charles Durning and Joel Grey.

Film Name: DREAMLOVER
Year: 1993
Synopsis: A man thinks he's found the perfect woman, but he's in a big surprise.
Character Name: Ray Reardon
Character Description: An architect.
Supporting Actors: Madchen Amick and Bess Armstrong.

Film Name: WOLF
Year: 1994
Synopsis: Modern day werewolf tale.
Character Name: Stewart Swinton
Character Description: A coniving protege who tries to steal his mentor's job.
Supporting Actors: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Chrisopher Plummer.

Film Name: STARGATE
Year: 1994
Synopsis: Sci-Fi story about a mysterious gate that enables a group of military men to go to another planet.
Character Name: Dr. Daniel Jackson
Character Description: An Egyptologist/Linguist who discovers the key to unlocking the gates power.
Supporting Actors: Kurt Russell, Mili Avital, Alexis Cruz, Jaye Davidson, John Diehl and Viveca Lindfors.

Film Name: KEYS TO TULSA
Year Made: 1995--Year Released: 1997
Synopsis: A man' s life takes an unexpected turn for the worse.
Character Name: Ronnie Stover
Character Description: He blackmail's his friend.
Supporting Actors: Eric Stoltz, Cameron Diaz and Mary Tyler Moore.

Film Name: DRIFTWOOD
Year: 1995
Synopsis: A lonely woman finds an unconscious man and takes him in.
Character Name: The Man
Character Description: An amnesiac who doesn't know who he is or what happened to him.
Supporting Actors: Anne Brochet and Aiden Grenell.

Film Name: TWO DAYS IN THE VALLEY
Year Made: 1995--Year Released: 1996
Synopsis: 3 subplots all collide in an explosive finale.
Character Name: Lee Woods
Character Description: A hitman mixed up in an insurance scam.
Supporting Actors: Danny Aiello, Marsha Mason, Teri Hatcher, Jeff Daniels, Paul Maszursky, Charlize Theron and Eric Stoltz.

Film Name: CRASH
Year Made: 1995--Year Released: 1996
Synopsis: A man and woman are involved in a horrible car accident, and find out that they were sexually aroused by it. i>
Character Name: James Ballard
Character Description: Developes a car crash fetish after barly escaping death from h is own car crash.
Supporting Actors: Holly Hunter, Deborah Kara Unger and Elias Koteas.

Film Name: CURTAIN CALL aka LATER LIFE
Year Made: 1995--Year Released: 1999
Synopsis: A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying
a terrific townhouse just for himself. Little does he know that the house is inhabited by ghosts
of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.
Character Name: Stevenson Lowe
Supporting Actors: Michael Caine and Maggie Smith.

Film Name: CRITICAL CARE
Year : 1997
Synopsis: A young doctor's life gets turned upside down when, he gets too involved with one of the patient's families.
Character Name: Dr. Werner Ernst
Character Description: A doctor trying to save his job after he gets blackmailed.
Supporting Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, Helen Mirren and Albert Brooks.

Film Name: SUPERNOVA
Year: January 14, 2000
Synopsis: Futuristic tale about a hospital ship that rescues someone from another ship, who turns on them.
Character Name: Nick Vanzant
Supporting Actors: Angela Bassett, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robin Tunney.

Film Name: SLOW BURN
Year: 2000
Synopsis: A young woman travels through the Mexican desert in search of her dead Grandmother's jewels, meeting quite a few obsticles along the way.
Character Name: Marcus
Character Description: An escaped psychotic convict, who along with his partner, finds the jewels before the young woman.
Supporting Actors: Minnie Driver, Josh Brolin and Stuart Wilson II.

Film Name: THE WATCHER
Year: September 8, 2000
Synopsis: A policeman is in search of a serial killer.
Character Name: Joel Campbell.
Character Description: Cop.
Supporting Actors: Keanu Reeves and Marisa Tomei.

Film Name: SPEAKING OF SEX
Year: 2001
Synopsis: A sex therapist is accused of taking advantage of one of his female patients.
Character Name: Dr. Roger Klink
Character Description: Sex Therapist.
Supporting Actors: Bill Murray, Melora Waters, Jay Mohr, Lara Flynn Boyle and Catherine O'Hara.

Film Name: THE STICK-UP
Year: 2001
Synopsis: A story with many twists and turns about a cop who inadvertently walks into a group of different cops, who are robbing a bank, and then try to pin the crime on him.
Character Name: Parker
Character Description: Policeman.
Supporting Actors: David Keith, Leslie Stefanson, Jonh Livingston and Alex Zahara.

Film Name: THE SECRETARY
Year: 2002
Synopsis: A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Character Name: E. Edward Grey
Character Description: Lawyer
Supporting Actors: Maggie Gyllenhal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren, Amy Locane, Stephen McHattie and Oz Perkins.

Film Name: THE PENTAGON PAPERS
Year: 2003
Synopsis: A high-ranking Pentagon official produces a classified document that basically indicates that the Vietnam War was unwinable.
Character Name: Daniel Ellsberg
Character Description: Pentagon Offical
Supporting Actors: Paul Giamatti, Claire Forlani, Alan Arkin, Hannah Lochner and Mark Benesh.

Film Name: ALIEN HUNTER
Year: 2003
Synopsis: An alien black box is found in the South Pole, where a government agency is conducting botanical experiments.
Character Name: Julien Rome
Character Description:
Supporting Actors: Anthony Crivello, Janine Eser, John Lynch, Leslie Stefanson and Roy Doctrice.

Film Name: I, WITNESS
Year: 2003
Synopsis: After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim.
Character Name: Douglas Draper
Character Description:
Supporting Actors: Jeff Daniels, Portia de Rossi, Clifton Collins, Jr., Jordi Caballero and Mark Carlton.Some of the pictures featured on this page are the property of The James Spader Meeting Place. Thank you Brigitte!
