Biography
Michael Ivan Cristofer is an American playwright, filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and an Antoinette Perry “Tony” Award for the Broadway production of his play, The Shadow Box. Subsequent to New York, the play was produced in every major American city and worldwide from Europe to the Far East. Other plays include Breaking Up at Primary Stages; Ice at Manhattan Theatre Club; ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Great Lillian Hall
2024
Executive Producer, Director
Lillian Hall, a Broadway actress, has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career. Yet in rehearsals for a new play her confide...

The Metropolitan Opera: Champion
2023
Screenplay
Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered w...

The Night Clerk
2020
Writer, Director
Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woman is murdered during his shift, Bart becomes the p...

Last Supper
2018
as Raymond
Two hitmen share a late night meal. Vincent, the mark, has from appetizers to dessert to convince McCarthy not to kill him.

Chuck
2017
Writer
A drama inspired by the life of heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner.

Year by the Sea
2016
as Robin
Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free.

The Adderall Diaries
2016
as Paul Hora
Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of ...

Chronic
2015
as John
David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Dedicated to his profession, he develops strong relationships with the people he cares for. B...

The Girl in the Book
2015
as Dad
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

Emoticon
2014
as Walter Nevins
Elena Gallenti is an anthropology graduate student struggling to complete her thesis on 'modern means of communication.' All that changes when she mee...

5 Flights Up
2014
as Larry
A long-time married couple who've spent their lives together in the same New York apartment become overwhelmed by personal and real estate-related iss...

The Other Woman
2010
as Sheldon Greenleaf
Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief followi...

Georgia O'Keeffe
2009
Writer
Biopic of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.

Casanova
2005
Story
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems imp...

Original Sin
2001
Screenplay, Director
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his gras...

Body Shots
1999
Director
The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of possibilities, eight 20-somethings take to the club...

Gia
1998
Director, Writer
Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.

Breaking Up
1997
Screenplay
An aloof, struggling food photographer thinks he has found true love with a fiery grade-school teacher. At first, the relationship is all wine and ros...

Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995
as Jarvis
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with c...

Mr. Jones
1993
Screenplay
The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr. Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his t...

The Witches of Eastwick
1992
Original Film Writer
An unsold TV series pilot about three single witches living together who try to conjure up their idea of the "perfect man." One day, their wish comes ...

The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
Screenplay
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and ...

The Witches of Eastwick
1987
Screenplay
Three single women in a picturesque Rhode Island village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their...

Falling in Love
1984
Writer
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize e...

The Little Drummer Girl
1984
as Tayeh
An American Actress with a penchant for lying is forceably recruited by Mosad, the Israeli intelligence agency to trap a Palestinian bomber, by preten...

Candida
1982
Director
Candida is the wife of a famous clergyman, the Reverend James Mavor Morell. Morell is a Christian Socialist, popular in the Church of England, but Can...

The Shadow Box
1980
Screenplay
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.

An Enemy of the People
1978
as Hovstad
A small forest town is trying to promote itself as a place for tourists to come enjoy the therapeutic hot springs and unspoiled nature. Dr. Stockmann,...

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
1976
as Robert Lincoln
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln depicts the final seventeen years of Mary Todd Lincoln's life, following her husband's assassination.

The Entertainer
1976
as Frank Rice
A vaudeville entertainer approaches middle age still not having attained success or stardom.

Knuckle
1975
as Curley Delafield
Curley Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah.

Crime Club
1975
as Frank Swoboda
A Washington DC club comprises specialists who band together to combat crime.

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder
1974
as Alessini (as Michael Ivan Cristofer)
After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatric...