Michael Cristofer

Michael Cristofer

1945-01-22 North Trenton, New Jersey, USA 33 Credits

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; ...

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The Great Lillian Hall

The Great Lillian Hall

2024

Executive Producer, Director

6.4
Producing Directing

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

The Metropolitan Opera: Champion

2023

Screenplay

9.0
Writing

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

The Night Clerk

2020

Writer, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

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

Last Supper

2018

as Raymond

5.1
Acting

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

Chuck

Chuck

2017

Writer

6.3
Writing

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

Year by the Sea

Year by the Sea

2016

as Robin

8.0
Acting

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

The Adderall Diaries

2016

as Paul Hora

5.3
Acting

Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of ...

Chronic

Chronic

2015

as John

5.8
Acting

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

The Girl in the Book

2015

as Dad

5.8
Acting

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

Emoticon

Emoticon

2014

as Walter Nevins

2.0
Acting

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

5 Flights Up

2014

as Larry

6.0
Acting

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

The Other Woman

2010

as Sheldon Greenleaf

6.2
Acting

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

Georgia O'Keeffe

2009

Writer

5.3
Writing

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

Casanova

Casanova

2005

Story

6.5
Writing

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

Original Sin

2001

Screenplay, Director

6.1
Writing Directing

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

Body Shots

1999

Director

4.6
Directing

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

Gia

1998

Director, Writer

7.1
Directing Writing

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

Breaking Up

Breaking Up

1997

Screenplay

4.4
Writing

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

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

1995

as Jarvis

7.3
Acting

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

Mr. Jones

1993

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

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

The Witches of Eastwick

1992

Original Film Writer

6.0
Writing

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

The Bonfire of the Vanities

1990

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

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

The Witches of Eastwick

1987

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

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

Falling in Love

1984

Writer

6.7
Writing

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

The Little Drummer Girl

1984

as Tayeh

5.5
Acting

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

Candida

1982

Director

Directing

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

The Shadow Box

1980

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

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

An Enemy of the People

1978

as Hovstad

6.5
Acting

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

The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

1976

as Robert Lincoln

Acting

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

The Entertainer

The Entertainer

1976

as Frank Rice

5.5
Acting

A vaudeville entertainer approaches middle age still not having attained success or stardom.

Knuckle

Knuckle

1975

as Curley Delafield

Acting

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

Crime Club

Crime Club

1975

as Frank Swoboda

Acting

A Washington DC club comprises specialists who band together to combat crime.

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder

1974

as Alessini (as Michael Ivan Cristofer)

5.2
Acting

After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, where he has been vaguely diagnosed as "psychiatric...