Howard Hesseman Movies

An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.

Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on...

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.

Blaise Dietz (Patty Duke Astin) plays the wife of police officer Blaise Dietz (Frederic Forrest), who wants to join a special investigative unit....

Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.

An advertising executive finds herself in a small-town jail after being terrorized on a drive from Los Angeles to New York by two hitchhikers who...

A Session with the Committee

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with famous cartoonists AND their creations!

This short film satirizes French auteur theory. An earnest critic rediscovers washed-up director Seymour Z. Fishko ("Revenge of the 80-Foot...

Melodrama set in South Vietnam in the 1960s. Krueger (Bramhall), a former infantry lieutenant, is imprisoned at Quai Dong, on the South China Sea,...

Ambitious photojournalist Chris Cassidy, on assignment in Paris, becomes involved with an unconventional French detective after having witnessed the...