Peter Gallagher

Date of Birth: 19 Aug 1955
Country: USA
Biography: Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor, musician and writer. Since 1980, Gallagher has played many roles in numerous Hollywood films. He starred as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007. He currently appears in a recurring role on the USA Network drama Covert Affairs as CIA Clandestine Services Director Arthur Campbell...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 65 (Actor)
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Provoked by forbidden passions, Lester Burnham (Spacey) decides to make a few changes in his rut of a life, changes that are less midlife crisis than adolescence reborn. The freer he gets, the happier he gets, which is even more maddening to his wife, Carolyn (Bening), and daughter Jane (Birch) --especially when he turns his lustful gaze toward Jane's friend, the sultry Angela (Suvari). (Dreamworks SKG)
"Center Stage" is an intimate look into the education of three young students, Jodie, Eva and Maureen, as they study at the American Ballet Academy. Life isn't what they expected at the esteemed ABC, and all three face problems along the road. Jodie doesn't have the "ideal" body for dancing, Eva doesn't have the right attitude, and Maureen doesn't have the heart. Along the way, they learn that love can be found in unlikely places, and dancing should be a passion, not a duty. (imdb)
Decades after the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane was closed, five strangers are invited to spend a night there. Their reward is a million dollars each. All they have to do is stay alive. (Warner Bros.)
The story of 17-year-old Halley Martin (Moore), who has been convinced by the outrageous relationships around her that the whole concept of true love is vastly overrated. (New Line Cinema)
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him. (imdb)
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.
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, even on a fishing trip. Starring Andie MacDowell, Fred Ward, 'Jack Lemmon' , Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Robbins. (imdb)
A corrupt rightwing folksinger runs a crooked election campaign while only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him. (imdb)
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam. (imdb)
Ticket collecting romantic pretends to be engaged to an unconscious man but can't fool his brother (imdb)
Murray is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assasinate international leaders at a banquet. (imdb)
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor. (imdb)
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair. (imdb)
A young American couple go to the Greek islands for the summer and are dazzled by the beauty and the uninhibited people surrounding them. The young man meets and begins an affair with a French woman, an archeologist working on a dig. The young American woman discovers this and goes to confront the other woman. The French woman is quite taken with the American woman's photographic work, and the three become very close. (imdb)
When Peter Plunkett's Irish castle turned hotel is about to be repossesed, he decides to spice up the attraction a bit for the 'Yanks' by having his staff pretend to haunt the castle... (imdb)
Jude Madigan leaves her husband Robert and her three children without any explanation. Three years later, when all think that she has already died, Jude returns and asks for pardon. But her husband Robert does not forgive but instead wants the divorce. As Jude does not give up this ends in war and in the story ends in court. (imdb)
David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with Gillian during walks with her "ghost" on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present in the real world. (imdb)
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian. (imdb)
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes (Rob Morrow) is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett (Sharon Stone), a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer. (imdb)
Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother's marriage. Michael had been ousted from his home town due to his gambling indiscretions and had left his wife to deal with the mess he created. He now must reassimulate back into the town, renew his relationships with his family and friends (and enemies) and, most-of-all, seek out his ex-wife to woo her again. (imdb)
Exploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the characters she was once so amused by. As she thinks back on it, she starts to see her relationship with the shy author/professor in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old. (imdb)
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988) - TV Movie
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny". (imdb)
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways. (imdb)
Pedro Carmichael (Peter Falk) is an outrageous radio drama screenwriter, and he draws influence from Martin and Julia's (Reeves and Hershey) love story, as well as his irrational hatred of Albanians.
A modern color remake of the silent masterpiece; the story is taken up to contemporary New York, where a somnambulist is haunting a working couple.
Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One such assignment turns the wrong way and blackmailers die one by one. Is Johnny the next on the list? (imdb)
Titanic (1996) - TV Movie
The tale of the famous Titanic passenger liner that claimed to be unsinkable. This claim was proved to be false when it hit an iceberg when crossing the Atlantic. The drama unfolds as the passengers and crew race against time to get off the sinking vessel and decide who will go into the lifeboats that can only hold half of the ship's population. Those who do not get the privilege of a space on a lifeboat face almost certain death (imdb)
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth. (imdb)
The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988) - TV Mini-Series
From a true story. In Atlanta in 1913, a 13-year-old girl is murdered in the factory where she works. The factory manager, a Jew named Leo Frank, is convicted and sentenced to hang. Georgia Governor John Slaton suspects that Frank may have been railroaded by public desire for revenge and hatred of Frank's religion and northern (US) ties. But as a rising politician, Slaton also knows that to violate such strong public opinion by questioning the judgment would be political suicide. (imdb)
Two young men, one in need of medical attention, are cryogenically frozen in the early 1960s. The two are preoccupied with the fact that the police are pursuing them to realise what they are doing. The next thing they know is that they are in a strange new world (thirty years on). (imdb)
Cupid & Cate (2000) - TV Movie
Cate has a small boutique where she sells vintage clothes. She is dating some snob whose mother thinks that Cate is a second class citizen because of her line of work. Harry meets Cate and they fall in love instantly. Francesca is a doctor who finds out that he has cancer, and tells Cate so that she would break up with Harry... (imdb)
Path to Paradise (1997) - TV Movie
The incredible story of the events leading up to the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists. The amazing thing is that the FBI had an informant among the terrorists, but refused to pay him $500/week for more information. They eventually had to pay $1 million and place him in the witness protection program. A story of incompetence on all sides.
Brave New World (1998) - TV Movie
In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives and/or destiny (imdb)
Convinced that her brother, Kenneth (Sam Rockwell), has been unjustly convicted of murder and incompetently defended by court-ordered attorneys, high school dropout Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) puts herself through law school in order to represent him in his appeal.
A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.
A society playboy with a taste for the lowlife is set up for exploitation by an unscrupulous undercover cop and his shadowy political masters. (imdb)
A week in the lives of a group of models, photographers, agents, reporters, publicists and other characters during a wild modeling show in New York City. (imdb)
The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina (2002) - Direct-to-Video
When two tiny people reunite fifteen years after their village was ransacked by a giant, they learn that they were very special people in the village. (imdb)
White Mile (1994) - TV Movie
Cutthroat advertising executive Dan Cutler organizes a whitewater-rafting business trip meant to inspire male bonding between his employees and clients. But when the raft capsizes and several of the men turn up dead, Cutler attempts to cover up his negligence in the face of a lawsuit by one of the widows--forcing his young protege and accident survivor Jack Robbins to choose between loyalty and the truth. (cduniverse.com)
Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans. (imdb)
James Sveck is a lonely young adult in the summer before he goes off to college at Brown University. Apart from hanging with his grandmother James prefers solitude. The story is told in the first person narration which helps give an intimate inside view of James as he works through his life at the therapy sessions which his parents insist he goes to. We learn about James's past and present through the stories he tells and his recounting of previous therapy sessions. (imdb)
Three young vigilantes huddle on la linea ready to chase illegals back across the border into Mexico... but they soon learn that there are borderlines deep within each one of them that each of them has to cross. (imdb)
Feast of All Saints (2001) - TV Movie
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression. (imdb)
The Gathering (2007) - TV Mini-Series
As Dr. Michael Foster searches for his wife, who disappeared without a trace, he unearths a cabal of witches in present-day New York. (imdb)
An Inconvenient Woman (1991) - TV Movie
An Inconvenient Woman, an excellent television mini-series based on the novel by Dominick Dunne, which is loosely based on the Alfred Bloomingdale scandal, tells the story of the mistress of a famous man who he has murdered when she threatens his security. (allrovi.com)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987) - TV Movie
The Great American Family at its worst. James Tyrone is an aging actor and skinflint whose miserliness has been the ruin of his family. His wife, Mary, has been a morphine addict since the birth of their youngest son, Edmund. Their eldest son, Jamie is an alcoholic, unable an unwilling to find work on his own, he has been 'forced' to take up his father's profession. Edmund, who has been away as a sailor has returned home sick and awaits the doctor's diagnosis of consumption. (imdb)
Brotherhood of Murder (1999) - TV Movie
Based on a true story, it is about a struggling young father (Baldwin) who can no longer support his wife and family, falling in with a beginning group of white supremacists led by a man (Gallagher) who is obsessed with the "takeover of the Country by whites." All goes well until the shooting starts and this moves Baldwin to turn against the group. (imdb)
A self-help seminar inspires a sixty-something woman to romantically pursue her younger co-worker. (imdb)
In a Relationship (2015) - Short Film
In a Relationship is a spirited yet achingly tender look at modern love. Shot mockumentary style, this short film follows two young couples in opposite stages of romance: Matt and Willa, who have been hooking up for six days, and Owen and Abby, who are trying in vain to breathe new life into a five year relationship that is growing stale. It's an exploration of the grey areas of contemporary dating and how much we keep from the people we're closest to. (imdb)
Togetherness (2015) - TV Series
Follows two couples living under the same roof who struggle to keep their relationships alive while pursuing their individual dreams. (imdb)
The O.C. (2003) - TV Series
A troubled youth becomes embroiled in the lives of a close-knit group of people in the wealthy, upper-class neighborhood of Newport Beach, Orange County, California. (imdb)
American Beauty: Look Closer... (2000) - Short Film
The making of Sam Mendes's award-winning debut "American Beauty" (1999).
A Bad Moms Christmas follows our three under-appreciated and over-burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas.
Covert Affairs (2010) - TV Series
A young CIA operative/trainee, Annie Walker, is sent into the field to work for the DPD (Domestic Protection Division). Auggie Anderson is a blind tech operative, and is Walker's guide in her new life in the CIA. Walker's cover story is that she works at the Smithsonian Museum.
A young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship. Based on the novel by Anna Todd.
Felix und Scorpion (2007) - Short Film
The short circuit between Margaret Thatcher's shoes and the literary work Felix und Scorpion, which Karl Marx tried to write and abandoned, followed by the dialectical cycle that takes place in the surreal transformation of Reich's idea of ??'sexual politics' into agitation.
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated as they are unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other. (imdb)
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (2020) - TV Series
- Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist: Pilot (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Best Friend (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Boss (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Neighbor (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Failure (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Night Out (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Confession (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Glitch (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Silence (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Outburst (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Mother (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Dad (2020)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Return (2021)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Session (2021)
- Zoey's Extraordinary Goodbye (2021)
Center Stage: On Pointe (2016) - TV Movie
Jonathan is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy, and enlists his top choreographers Charlie, Cooper, and Tommy to recruit dancers who will train and compete for a coveted spot at the Academy. Bella Parker, who has always lived in the shadow of her hugely successful sister Kate, finally gets her chance to step into the limelight as one of the dancers to train at ABC's 6 week dance boot camp. Can she master both modern and classical ballet?
On her first holiday without her father, Zoey wants to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do. (imdb)
50 years after its release, Don McLean shares the secrets behind his iconic song 'American Pie', one of the great musical touchstones of the 20th century. (imdb)
In the wake of an environmental collapse that forces humanity to get rid of 20% of its population, a family dinner turns chaotic when a father's plan to enlist in the government's new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.
Virtual Obsession (1998) - TV Movie
A university professor and his family become trapped in a deadly game when his jealous lover's consciousness is uploaded to virtual reality.