Lee Bryant

Acting

Lee Bryant

Born 1945-08-31 · Manhattan, New York, USA

Lee Bryant (born August 31, 1945) is an American actress. She played a hysterical passenger in the 1980 film Airplane!, reprising the role in the 1982 sequel. She also appeared as Sam Waterston's wife in the 1977 conspiracy thriller Capricorn One, and as Jennifer Westfeldt's mother in the romantic comedy Friends with Kids (2011).

Acting credits

Airplane! poster
7.3

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Airplane!

1980

Airplane II: The Sequel poster
6.1

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982

The Good Shepherd poster
6.4

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

The Good Shepherd

2006

Capricorn One poster
6.8

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.

Capricorn One

1977

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

Holy Man poster
5.2

In a world governed by commerce, Ricky and Kate, dedicated employees, find their lives forever changed when they encounter the enigmatic stranger G. As they navigate the realm of commerce, their paths intertwine in a surreal dance of love, loss, and redemption. G's presence, amplified through the pervasive influence of globalized television, casts a spell that reverberates beyond Ricky and Kate, impacting the lives of those who bear witness to their intertwined destinies.

Holy Man

1998

Lassie: The New Beginning poster
5.5

The Stratton kids, Samantha and Chip, and their grandmother, Ada, drive to visit their Uncle Stuart. Grandma collapses and dies in a strange town, leaving the kids and Lassie on their own.

Lassie: The New Beginning

1978

Mysterious Two poster
6.1

Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.

Mysterious Two

1982

Hart to Hart poster
7.5

In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.

Hart to Hart

1979

No Letting Go poster
7.0

A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.

No Letting Go

2016

Deathmask poster
4.8

Haunted by the drowning death of his own daughter, a police investigator embarks on an obsessive 10-year hunt for the identity of a dead boy, to the detriment of his family life.

Deathmask

1984

Solomon Northup's Odyssey poster
6.8

A free Black man from New York is tricked, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in the South, where he endures twelve years of brutal servitude before finding a way to contact his family and secure his freedom.

Solomon Northup's Odyssey

1991

Alien Nation: Dark Horizon poster
5.7

Followup movie to the TV series about 250,000 aliens, or "newcomers" as they are known, who have by now settled alongside the humans in California. Most of the newcomers were slaves, and the slave masters are now looking for them. They send Aponso to earth to locate the slaves ready for the aliens to pick them up.

Alien Nation: Dark Horizon

1994