Gordon Joseph Weiss

Acting

Gordon Joseph Weiss

Born 1949-06-19 · Bismarck, North Dakota, USA

Acting credits

Awakenings poster
7.8

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

Awakenings

1990

Private Parts poster
6.5

The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to his view from the top. Possessing a desire to be an on-air personality since childhood, Stern meanders through the radio world, always with his supportive wife, Alison, by his side. Landing a gig in Washington, D.C., Stern meets Robin Quivers, who will become his long-time partner in crime. When the two move to New York, they face the wrath of NBC executives.

Private Parts

1997

Reversal of Fortune poster
6.7

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Reversal of Fortune

1990

No artwork available
NR

After achieving a major professional goal, an artist begins to unravel.

Skull

2019

All Is Bright poster
5.4

Two ne’er-do-wells from Quebec travel to New York City with a scheme to get rich quick selling Christmas trees.

All Is Bright

2013

Imaginary Heroes poster
6.5

Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy with mixed results.

Imaginary Heroes

2004

Joe Gould's Secret poster
6.0

Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.

Joe Gould's Secret

2000

Frank the Bastard poster
2.3

A young woman returns to her birthplace after her father's death and unearths distant memories and long-buried secrets that change everything she thought she knew about her family, past and herself.

Frank the Bastard

2015

Asylum Seekers poster
4.0

Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.

Asylum Seekers

2009

Lustre poster
5.8

"Lustre" chronicles a change in heart, a spiritual awakening through the rise of an unlikely holy man. Filmed on the streets of New York in the year after the Twin Towers fell, "Lustre" tells a story of renewal in uncertain times.

Lustre

2005

Paradise City poster
NR

The worlds of a young cop with a checkered past, an ex-con turned devout Muslim, and a junkie with affluent roots collide in a plot to justify New York City's counter-terrorism campaign against homegrown extremists.

Paradise City

2019

The Undiscovered Country poster
1.0

A young woman investigates her mother's secret past — by following her ghost.

The Undiscovered Country

2019

The Undeserved poster
7.0

A murder in a small town sets the stage for this highly improvised character driven film.

The Undeserved

2004

All the Vermeers in New York poster
5.5

A parable of the missteps of life enacted in the hothouse world of late 1980’s New York, in which the art market and the stock market each boomed, and in process spawned a smorgasbord of “yuppie” delusions which still persist. Anna, a French actress studying in New York, crosses paths with a successful stock-broker, Mark, standing before a Vermeer portrait at the Metropolitan, thence ensues a peculiar romance of missed meanings and connections, with tangential asides to the steaming arts world and stock market, loft-mate conflicts, and, perhaps, love. Wrapped up in their blindered worlds, Anna and Mark deflect away from their chances, leaving at the conclusion the wistful face of Vermeer’s portrait enigmatically asking questions. All the Vermeers in New York is a comedy of manners which, as gently as a Vermeer, looks beneath the skin of this time and place, and of these characters.

All the Vermeers in New York

1992

B Movie poster
7.0

Cold, calculating, corrupt career cop Crazy Cave Man finds frequent fornicator Prof. Friend ferociously fellating furries.

B Movie

2004

XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint poster
NR

A Polish immigrant go-go dancer dreams of Hollywood. A man living in his car dreams of redemption. They meet. A comical, at times brutal look at the American dream.

XXXtasy: Two Days in the Life of a Saint

1993

Valeria poster
NR

Discharged from the hospital after a partial face transplant, Eva is consumed by curiosity about her donor, with whom she feels increasingly connected.

Valeria

2016