Acting

Nels Van Patten

Born 1955-01-15 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

Acting credits

Summer School poster
6.4

A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with them, and even inspires ardor in some.

Summer School

1987

Live Wire poster
5.2

Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.

Live Wire

1992

Debating Robert Lee poster
6.5

A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teacher from the Georgia Military Academy who teaches them that life is debate and DEBATE IS WAR.

Debating Robert Lee

2004

Mirror Images poster
3.9

When her identical twin sister goes out of town, a bored and sexually frustrated woman adopts her sibling's promiscuous identity, but soon finds herself involved in a murder case.

Mirror Images

1992

Young Warriors poster
3.9

After a young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, her brother takes up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, brutally punishing any miscreants they catch in a criminal act.

Young Warriors

1983

Grotesque poster
4.3

A gang of crazed punkers breaks into a family's vacation home in the mountains and slaughters the entire family, except for one daughter who gets away. As the gang pursues the girl through the snow, they slowly realize that some kind of murderous creature is chasing them...

Grotesque

1988

The Break poster
6.1

A washed-up tennis pro begins coaching a hopeful teen, Joel Robbins, whose overbearing father wants to discourage him from playing.

The Break

1995

Dirty Tennis poster
9.0

A great comedy about how to win at tennis by playing dirty.

Dirty Tennis

1989

Mind Twister poster
3.8

Two former exotic dancers devise a plot to expose a physciatrist as the murderer of their friend.

Mind Twister

1994

Lunch Wagon poster
4.3

Three women start a lunch wagon business but run into stiff resistance from a competitor.

Lunch Wagon

1981

High Powder poster
9.0

Joe, who has been pushing drugs at his high school, expands his business to include the ski team. Rick, one of Joe's new customers, has some apparent improvement in his skiing, until, despite the intervention of Bill, he endures a serious injury. Bill, with his father's backing, then blows the whistle on Joe.

High Powder

1982

Valerie poster
3.0

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

Valerie

2019

Ghost Writer poster
4.5

A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.

Ghost Writer

1989

Camp Fear poster
3.7

Some sorority sisters opt for camping in the woods with a handsome professor instead of going to Palm Springs for spring break. However, the orgy is interrupted when some druids appear and decide they need to sacrifice the sisters to prevent the apocalypse at the start of the new millennium.

Camp Fear

1991

Backyard Dogs poster
3.4

Two teenage boys aspire to win a backyard wrestling championship and a chance to appear on a national TV show.

Backyard Dogs

2000

Face The Edge poster
6.5

Tom is a cop. Joe is a doctor. Nick is a professional skier. Each lives in a world of risk and stress...and each year they get together for one thing: the best skiing on earth! But nothing lasts forever, family demands and career pressures mean this will be their final trip together. They know they've got to make this one count...

Face The Edge

1990

Goodbye, Casanova poster
8.0

A aspiring novelist operates a tiny neighborhood bookstore. His wife is a talented painter. Their marriage is disintegrating, and they are about to sign their divorce papers. Meanwhile, the legendary Casanova and his lover Lavinia are characters trapped inside of a 17th-century children's book. The tragedy of the impending divorce triggers the release of Casanova and Lavinia from the confines of the children's pop-up book.

Goodbye, Casanova

2000