James Spader

James Spader
Date of Birth: 07 Feb 1960
Country: USA
Biography: James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960) is an American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such as Pretty in Pink; sex, lies, and videotape; Crash; Stargate; and Secretary. His most famous television role is that of the colorful attorney Alan Shore from The Practice and its spin-off Boston Legal, for which he won three Emmy Awards...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 50 (Actor)
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Crash
The immediate subject matter of Crash is the strange lure of the auto collision, provoking as it does the human fascination with death and the tendency to eroticize danger. Most motorists will slow down to stare at the scene of a collision; they may feel their pulses quickening and become exquisitely aware of the fragility of their own bodies. The characters of Crash carry this awareness a step further, cherishing and nurturing it. For them, a car collision is a sexual turn-on, and a jolting life-force they come to crave. (Fine Line Features)
Pretty in Pink
Andie (Ringwald) is a high school girl from the wrong side of town. Blaine (McCarthy) is the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure. (Paramount)
Secretary
A powerful and unique love story that toys with our expectations of love, sexuality and intimacy. (Lions Gate)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Ann is married to John, who is having an affair with her sister Cynthia. Ann's a quiet type and unwilling to let herself go. When John's old friend, Graham, shows up, all their lives change. Graham likes to videotape interviews with women.
Supernova
Supernova chronicles the search and rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century.
The Watcher
David Allen Griffin is a cool killer- time and time again, he chooses a female victim, studies her for weeks till he knows her routine to the smallest detail, makes meticulous preparations using his forensic knowledge to gain entry when she's quite alone, subdues her and administers a long, torturous death. Joel Campbell got so frustrated by his failure to capture Griffin in LA that he quit the FBI, moved to Chicago and remains in psychiatric therapy, unable to function normally... (imdb)
Stargate
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra (imdb)
2 Days in the Valley
48 hours of intersecting lives and crimes in Los Angeles (imdb)
Bob Roberts
A corrupt rightwing folksinger runs a crooked election campaign while only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him. (imdb)
Wall Street
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing. (imdb)
Bad Influence
Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. (imdb)
Baby Boom
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative. (imdb)
Less Than Zero
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit. (imdb)
Mannequin
Jonathan Switcher is a young artist. He just doesn't seem to last in any job he does. But when he builds a mannequin, he makes it so perfect, he falls in love with it. (imdb)
Endless Love
A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by circumstance and accident. (imdb)
Wolf
Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job. (imdb)
White Palace
Max Baron (James Spader) is a 27-year-old high flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife... (imdb)
The Music of Chance
Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league. (imdb)
True Colors
Best friends from law school to election night, their friendship is sorely tested when one learns of another's betrayal. (imdb)
Alien Hunter
In 1947, in New Mexico, a radio operator receives a signal following patterns and while investigating the occurrence, he vanishes. In the present days, the same signal is transmitted from a base in Malvinas Island to United States of America, and a satellite captures images of a unknown object in Antartic. The cryptologist Julien Rome (James Spader) is invited to investigate the mystery in the South Pole... (imdb)
The Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg, a hawkish analyst for the Rand Corporation think-tank and later for the U.S. government, supports the war in Vietnam until two powerful occurrences: the experience, first-hand, of combat and political turmoil in Vietnam, and the discovery of secret Defense Department documents detailing the deliberate fabrication of reasons to initiate and expand the war. Facing a crisis of conscience, Ellsberg becomes convinced that the American people have not been told the truth about the war, its justifications, or its likely outcome.(imdb)
Dream Lover
A man who who has a passionate affair and marries his lover quickly comes to realize that she's not the person he thought she was.
Tuff Turf
At the start of his senior year in high school, Morgan's father has lost his company, so the family moves from Connecticut, where they've been in the yacht club, to an apartment in the San Fernando Valley. Morgan has grown up in the shadow of his high-achieving older brother, and he seems to have a knack for getting into trouble... (imdb)
Keys to Tulsa
Richter Boudreau is a son of local celebrity Cynthia who is not very successful and works as a film critic for local newspaper. In a short time he loses his job, heritage, and one of his "friends" starts to blackmail him. His only hope is that others around him are even bigger dummies. (imdb)
Critical Care
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters (imdb)
Slow Burn
A distinguished explorer finds herself stranded in the Mexican desert with two escaped convicts and a stash of diamonds. (imdb)
Storyville
A young candidate for the senate is filmed with a hooker as blackmail. As he investigates, he discovers some family secrets involving his father and their political careers. (imdb)
Speaking of Sex
A female marriage counselor and a male depression expert try to solve the marital problems of a troubled couple. (imdb)
The Stickup
It's a quiet little town where nothing happens - until the day the bank is hit for half a million dollars by a thief wearing a clowns mask. (imdb)
I Witness
After 27 bodies are discovered in a collapsed tunnel in Tijuana, a man tries to unravel the mystery before becoming the next victim. (imdb)
Jack\
A serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders. (imdb)
Curtain Call
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment. (imdb)
The Rachel Papers
Charles is in control of his life; he is about to finish 6th from college and start at Oxford. He is 19 and wants an 'older' woman before he turns 20. Enter the beautiful Rachel, and Charles puts his 'master-of-seduction' routines into top gear. Things however get complicated, Charles has a string of ex's and a weird brother-in-law. Rachel has a boyfriend named Deforest and Charles' father has a mistress. (Matthew Stanfield)
The New Kids
A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang. (imdb)
Shorts
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it. (imdb)
A Killer in the Family
A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair's murderous crime spree. (imdb)
Shadow of Fear
When a young man accidentally kills someone, he is plunged into a rich man's world of blackmail, betrayal, adultery and ...murder. (imdb)
Cocaine: One Man\
Eddie (Dennis Weaver) used to be a successful real estate agent but now has a son that doesn't respect him, dwindling funds, and a job that's leaving him behind... until he discovers cocaine! What ensues is the cautionary tale of Eddie Gant.
Driftwood
When Sarah walks alone along the desolate beach one day she find an unconscious man, who has been brought to land by the waves. When he awakens he doesn't remember anything. He has no name and no past. His dependence lies on Sarah. A role that makes her forget her loneliness and she decides to therefore lie about their situation... She says that they are situated on an island, where no one can reach them. From now, his life lies in her hands.
Lincoln
As the Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
The Homesman
A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to escort three insane women from Nebraska to Iowa. (imdb)
Family Secrets
Three generations of women spend an emotional weekend that will change them forever. (imdb)
Avengers: Age of Ultron
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to the Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans. (imdb)
Boston Legal
This Spinoff of The Practice will focus on Civil Law. (imdb)
The Practice
We follow the exploits and cases of defense attorneys of a Boston law firm. Bobby Donnell is the senior defense attorney and founder of the firm. (imdb)
The Blacklist
Elizabeth 'Liz' Keen, a new FBI profiler has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal, Raymond Reddington, on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List turns himself in and insists on speaking to her. (imdb)
Discovery Atlas
Discovery Atlas' embarks on a journey to explore the great architecture, real culture, true beauty and immense diversity of four spectacular countries - Japan, Egypt, South Africa and France. (Discovery)
The Office - Season 7
The Office - Season 8
Boston Legal - Season 3