Movies by Peter Strauss
As part of the cast:
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Tracey Ullman's State of the Union: Season 1 (2008)
Cast: Tracey Ullman, Scott Bakula, Peter Strauss …
Directed by: Troy Miller
Golden Globe winner Tracey Ullman channels an array of famous faces in her new Showtime sketch comedy series that pokes fun at America's culture of celebrity worship. In addition to…
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XXX: State of the Union (2005)
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Samuel L. Jackson, Ice Cube …
Directed by: Lee Tamahori
Presidential addresses to Congress notwithstanding, the state of the union ain't great when Darius Stone (Ice Cube), a new National Security Agency operative, lands in the nation's…
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Kids Ten Commandments: Life and Seth Situation (2003)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Paul Winfield, Jodi Benson …
Come along with 11-year-old Seth and a cast of Bible characters as they learn the meaning of two of the Ten Commandments. Seth and his best friend, Ephraim, fight off dangerous bandits and…
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Kids Ten Commandments: The Not So Golden Calf (2003)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Paul Winfield, Jodi Benson …
Seth and his mom, Leila, are in for the adventure of a lifetime when they learn the meaning of two of the Ten Commandments. When Moses goes up to Mount Sinai, the people of Israel lose faith…
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Kids Ten Commandments: Rest is Yet to Come (2003)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Paul Winfield, Jodi Benson …
After his mom leaves him in the care of foul-mouthed Jeshanah, 11-year-old Seth finds out why he shouldn't misuse the name of God and how important it is to observe the Sabbath.…
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Kids Ten Commandments: Stolen Jewels, Stolen Hearts (2003)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Paul Winfield, Jodi Benson …
Simeon, the handsome singing sensation visiting the Israelites' camp, is quite taken with Matthew's wife, Sara, and tries to win her over with his amazing voice. At the same time,…
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Kids Ten Commandments: Toying with the Truth (2003)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Paul Winfield, Jodi Benson …
A new toy causes a rift between best friends Seth and Ephraim when Seth, who wants to be the cool kid who has everything, steals the toy. After it breaks, he blames it on his friend, and it…
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Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
Cast: Alfred Molina, Peter Strauss, Leslie Caron …
Directed by: Carl Schenkel
Agatha Christie's classic mystery is updated to the 21st century in this stylish television remake starring Meredith Baxter, Leslie Caron, Amira Casar, Nicholas Chagrin and David Hunt.…
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A Father's Choice (2000)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Mary McDonnell, Michelle Trachtenberg …
Directed by: Christopher Cain
After their mother's murder, 13-year old Kelly and her 10-year-old sister, Chris, move from the city to live on a ranch with the father they've never known, ex-rodeo champ Charlie…
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Joan of Arc (1999)
Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Peter O'Toole, Shirley MacLaine …
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Leelee Sobieski shines as the legendary 15th-century warrior, who, at age 17, led one of the world's greatest campaigns for freedom in this miniseries that blends inspiration, triumph…
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Love on the Land (1999)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Rachel Ward, Rip Torn …
Directed by: Daniel Petrie
Based on George Dell's classic novel The Earth Abideth, this epic saga follows the lives of a post-Civil War frontier family through several decades. Thomas Linthorne (Peter Strauss)…
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Joan of Arc (1999)
Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Chad Willett, Jacqueline Bisset …
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Leelee Sobieski shines as the legendary 15th-century warrior, who, at age 17, led one of the world's greatest campaigns for freedom in this miniseries that blends inspiration, triumph…
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Death in the Shadows (1998)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Henry Czerny, John Bourgeois …
Directed by: Peter Levin
Chip Sheppard is a young man living a blessed life until he awakens one night to a living nightmare in which his mother is brutally murdered. All evidence points to his wealthy physician…
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Keys to Tulsa (1997)
Cast: Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Cameron Diaz …
Directed by: Leslie Greif
Richter Boudreau (Eric Stoltz) is on one bad streak: He languishes in the shadow of his celebrity mother, loses his job as a film critic for the town paper, and now he's been approached…
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In the Lake of the Woods (1996)
Cast: Richard Anderson, Peter Boyle, Kathleen Quinlan …
Directed by: Carl Schenkel
John Waylan's (Peter Strauss) aspirations for the U.S. Senate dissolve when an exposé surfaces suggesting he was involved in a civilian massacre during the Vietnam War. Defeated,…
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Nick of Time (1995)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton …
Directed by: John Badham
Just off the train in Los Angeles, unassuming accountant Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) and his 6-year-old daughter (Courtney Chase) get drawn into a conspiracy to snuff California's governor…
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Reunion / Secrets (1994)
Cast: Richard Kiley, Frances Sternhagen, Peter Strauss …
Directed by: Lee Grant, Jud Taylor
Two women are pushed to the edge in this dramatic double feature. In Reunion, Marlo Thomas plays Jessie Yates, a mother seemingly driven to madness after a family tragedy involving her young…
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Flight of Black Angel (1991)
Cast: Peter Strauss, William O'Leary, James O'Sullivan …
Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
Convinced God wants him to destroy Las Vegas, unstable fighter pilot Gordon (William O'Leary) murders several relatives and allies, steals a nuke and heads for sin city, but savvy…
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83 Hours 'Til Dawn (1990)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Robert Urich, Paul Winfield …
Directed by: Donald Wrye
When the deranged psychopath (Peter Strauss) who abducted the teenage Julie Burdock (Samantha Mathis) demands a half-million dollar ransom from her wealthy father (Robert Urich), the…
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Proud Men (1987)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Peter Strauss, Alan Autry …
Directed by: William A. Graham
This modern Western drama chronicles the reconciliation between a draft-dodging son and his ultra-conservative rancher father after the son realizes that his father is going to die soon.
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Spacehunter (1983)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson …
Directed by: Lamont Johnson
In 2136, an intergalactic bounty hunter named Wolff (Peter Strauss) answers a distress signal that leads him to the plague-ridden planet of Terra Eleven, where he rescues three shipwrecked…
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The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Cast: Derek Jacobi, Elizabeth Hartman, Arthur Malet …
Directed by: Don Bluth
This animated adventure chronicles the trials of a widowed field mouse who must move her family to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of escaped lab rats, the brave…
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel about Hollywood and its denizens, this Elia Kazan-helmed drama tells the tale of Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro), a 1930s studio head driven…
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Rich Man, Poor Man (1976)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely …
Directed by: Bill Bixby
Based on an Irwin Shaw novel, this 1976 miniseries follows the Jordache brothers from the post-World War II period through the late 1960s. While Rudy (Peter Strauss) gains wealth and power,…
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Sergeant Klems (1971)
Cast: Peter Strauss, Tina Aumont, Pier Paolo Capponi …
Directed by: Sergio Grieco
A German soldier's decision to desert his unit and assume a dead man's identity leads to a life of wandering for the newly minted Sgt. Klems (Peter Strauss), who finds himself…
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Soldier Blue (1970)
Cast: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence …
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
After a brutal Cheyenne massacre on a cavalry unit, two survivors -- Honus Gent (Peter Strauss), a devoted soldier, and "Cresta" Lee (Candice Bergen), a young woman sympathetic to the Indians…