Biography
Carlos Bee Masterson Jr. was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. Masterson often worked with his cousin, writer Horton Foote. Acting from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, including 1975's The Stepford Wives as Walter Eberhart, since then he concentrated mostly on directing and producing. Actress Mary Stuart Masterson is his daughter; she appeared with her father in The Stepford Wives, playing one of his daughters. His other acting credits include roles in Ambush Bay (1966), In the...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Whiskey School
2005
Director
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his t...
Lost Junction
2003
Director
A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.
The Stepford Life
2001
as Himself
A documentary about the making of The Stepford Wives (1975).
Mermaid
2000
Director
Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.
The Only Thrill
1997
Executive Producer, Director
A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Lily Dale
1996
Director
In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister, Lil...
Arctic Blue
1993
Director
Eric Desmond, a committed environmentalist, is accidentally involved in the transfer of Ben Corbett, a ruthless killer, from an isolated Alaskan villa...
Convicts
1991
Director
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty o...
Night Game
1989
Director
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
Blood Red
1989
Director
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
Full Moon in Blue Water
1988
Director
Floyd, the owner of a bar on the Texas coast, has been depressed for a year after his wife disappeared in a swimming accident. He lives with his senil...
Hello Actors Studio
1988
as Self
After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For ...
Gardens of Stone
1987
as Col. Feld
A sergeant; stationed in Arlington, Virginia in the late 1960s; must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. ...
Witchfire
1986
When her psychiatrist is killed in an auto accident, his mentally deranged patient and two of her even crazier companions hide out in a house in a rur...
The Trip to Bountiful
1985
Director
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked so...
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
1982
Screenplay, Musical
When a big TV crusader Melvin P. Thorpe threatens to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal and close it down, Miss Mona doesn't go down without a...
City in Fear
1980
Executive Producer, Story
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page On...
A Question of Guilt
1978
as Lieutenant Tom Wharton
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
The Storyteller
1977
as Lee Gardner
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
The Quinns
1977
as Michael Quinn
A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains. T...
Delta County, USA
1977
as Billy Wingate
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sis...
The Stepford Wives
1975
as Walter Eberhart
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all...
Man on a Swing
1974
as Willie Younger
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her kill...
The Exorcist
1973
as Dr. Barringer
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, ...
Pueblo
1973
as ENC M.O. Goldman
Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of capti...
Tomorrow
1972
as Lawyer Douglas
A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.
Von Richthofen and Brown
1971
as Major Oswald Boelke
Spend time on both sides of World War I, partly with German flying ace Baron Manfred Von Richthofen (John Phillip Law), aka "The Red Baron," and his c...
Counterpoint
1967
as Sgt. Calloway
In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-libe...
In the Heat of the Night
1967
as Fryer
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Spar...
Ambush Bay
1966
as Sgt. William Maccone
A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.