Cotter Smith

Acting

Cotter Smith

Born 1949-05-29 · Washington, D.C., USA

Joseph Cotter Smith (born May 29, 1949) is an American stage, film, and television actor.

Acting credits

The Post poster
7.0

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

The Post

2017

Things Heard & Seen poster
5.7

A young woman discovers that both her husband and their new home harbor sinister secrets after they leave Manhattan for small-town life.

Things Heard & Seen

2021

K-9 poster
6.2

The extravagant cop Michael Dooley needs some help to fight a drug dealer who has tried to kill him. A "friend" gives him a dog named Jerry Lee (Officer Lewis), who has been trained to smell drugs. With his help, Dooley sets out to put his enemy behind the bars, but Jerry Lee has a personality of his own and works only when he wants to. On the other hand, the dog is quite good at destroying Dooley's car, house and sex-life...

K-9

1989

Friends with Kids poster
5.9

In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without significantly curbing their personal freedom. However, when Julie and Jason both become involved with others, they discover that they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other.

Friends with Kids

2012

You Don't Know Jack poster
7.0

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.

You Don't Know Jack

2010

Rustin poster
6.5

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

Rustin

2023

The Standoff at Sparrow Creek poster
6.0

After a mass shooting at a police funeral, reclusive ex-cop Gannon finds himself unwittingly forced out of retirement when he realizes that the killer belongs to the same militia he joined after quitting the force.

The Standoff at Sparrow Creek

2019

Lady Beware poster
5.3

A department store window dresser starts being stalked by a married man who’s obsessed with her.

Lady Beware

1987

Time of Death poster
5.6

When a prisoner vanishes without a trace, Detective Frank Morley (Michael Kelly) is sent to a decaying prison on the verge of shutdown. What begins as a routine investigation quickly spirals into a dangerous search for answers.

Time of Death

2025

Burning Blue poster
6.2

Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.

Burning Blue

2014

Cameron's Closet poster
4.7

A father who experiments with his son's psychokinetic powers is unaware that these experiments have released a demon from hell which lives in his son's closet, preparing to take over the young boy's soul.

Cameron's Closet

1988

Lifeform poster
5.4

When the Viking space capsule suddenly returns to Earth from its long ago trip to Mars, it brings with it an intelligent visitor that is part "Alien" and part "ET". Encased in armor, it extends a human like form from its shell to examine its surroundings and shows an interest in humans including a soft caress of a female scientist prior to the Army killing it. This only enrages its sibling.

Lifeform

1996

Master Ninja II poster
7.2

Lee Van Cleef and Timoty Van Patten are back in this "sequel" to their last "movie" about a ninja and his apprentice battling evil wherever they go. In reality, it's two episodes of failed TV show 'The Master' repackaged as a movie. Also featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Master Ninja II

1984

Reeseville poster
9.0

A policeman investigates the apparent suicide of a man whose son has just returned to the town.

Reeseville

2003

Jack and the Treehouse poster
3.0

A boy refuses to let his father tear down his beloved backyard forest.

Jack and the Treehouse

2021

Unsinkable poster
6.3

The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching flashbacks of the Titanic disaster as it unfolded.

Unsinkable

2024

Nickel Mountain poster
4.2

Henry Soames owns a rural diner, and has befriended Willard Freud and Callie Wells. One day Willard and Callie get the news that Callie is pregnant, and Willard splits. Henry takes in Callie, and helps her through the pregnancy. They fall in love and get married. All is going well until Willard is back from the road and wants the baby.

Nickel Mountain

1984

The Last Prostitute poster
4.5

Two 60s teenagers find work rather than pleasure when it turns out that the prostitute they desire now owns a horse farm.

The Last Prostitute

1991

Midnight's Child poster
5.2

Spooky tale of a lawyer who sees Satan in the Swiss au pair she and her artist husband have hired for their young daughter.

Midnight's Child

1992

Sleeper poster
8.0

One man must stop the government's ultimate assassin, a Sleepwalker Agent capable of entering people's dreams and killing them from within, only to discover that the killer is the one person he may not be capable of stopping.

Sleeper

2005

A Bunny's Tale poster
5.3

A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.

A Bunny's Tale

1985

Remember Me poster
5.3

Set in a Victorian haunted mansion, Kelly McGillis as a grieving Mom is being driven mad by a vocal but unseen entity. She believes it to be her son.

Remember Me

1995

The Rape of Richard Beck poster
6.8

The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the victims he's dealt with on a daily basis, Beck must now confront the tough system he was a part of. As he struggles to regain his status at work, he also must make sure those responsible for his attack are prosecuted.

The Rape of Richard Beck

1985

A Place to Be Loved poster
5.6

Gregory Kingsley, a boy passed off onto social services by his natural mother and abused by his natural father, finds the foster family he is put into to be the type of family he needs and takes his natural mother to court to have her parental rights revoked so that he can be adopted by the Russes. The story is based on the real case of the boy who really did have to take this action to avoid being sent back into an unacceptable situation.

A Place to Be Loved

1993