I have to call a tie on this one:

Male: Ron Howard (Happy Days, Andy Griffith Show) in the 1981 TV flick Bitter Harvest. He plays a dairy farmer who runs into some VERY hard times. I only saw this movie once, about 12 or so years ago but it has stuck w/ me all this time. I'd LOVE to see it again. What an AWESOME performance. Why wasn't he up for an Emmy in this??

Female: Elizabeth Montgomery (Bewitched) in 1975's The Legend of Lizzie Borden. EM gave a truly chilling, creepy, and powerful performance. You don't think of her as Samantha even for a moment. This performance was Emmy nominated, but it was Katharine Hepburn who took home the trophy. EM was also awesome in The Awakening Land.

What are your thoughts? :)

Sally Field: From Flying Nun to any of her movies!!!!


Tom Hanks: From Bosom Buddies to Forrest Gump, Big, Philadelphia, Castaway!! Need I say more???

Sally Field definitely. From Flying Nun to Not Without My Daughter. My God, what an actress.

Nancy McKeon from Facts of Life to that movie The Tracy Thurman Story. BRAVO!!!!!!

This is not a sitcom star, but still worth a mention, Farrah Fawcett from being a dork detective on Charlie's Angels to Burning Bed. AWESOME PERFORMANCE. Didn't she win an award for that?

Also Elizabeth Montgomery played a rape victim in a very controversial tv movie called A CASE OF RAPE. It was very powerful. I seen it when it debuted on television. I believe it only aired once.

Ted Danson in Something About Amelia.

Meredith Baxter Birney in A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story.

Ted Danson in Something About Amelia.

Meredith Baxter Birney in A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story.
Oohhhh, I love Meredith in that movie, and the second movie she made on Betty.

Woody Harrelson in THE PEOPLE vs. LARRY FLYNT
and any of his other dramatic stuff. He is great.
Sorry, I know you said TV MOVIES, but he is a great dramatic actor as well in the movies.

Sally Field definitely. From Flying Nun to Not Without My Daughter. My God, what an actress.

Nancy McKeon from Facts of Life to that movie The Tracy Thurman Story. BRAVO!!!!!!

This is not a sitcom star, but still worth a mention, Farrah Fawcett from being a dork detective on Charlie's Angels to Burning Bed. AWESOME PERFORMANCE. Didn't she win an award for that?

Also Elizabeth Montgomery played a rape victim in a very controversial tv movie called A CASE OF RAPE. It was very powerful. I seen it when it debuted on television. I believe it only aired once.
no; I've seen that EM movie in sydnication a few times. And I remember after it aired on NBC they reran it about a year later.

Sally Field

from the 70's First You Cry with MTM...Friendly Fire....Carol Burnett...
anything with RoBin Williams in it....awesome dramatic actor...
John Ritter played a father of a cancer victim ..truly great...
Uprising with Hank Azaria (Mad About You) and David Schwimmer played Jewish freedom fighters in Poland
also the recent The Ron Clark Story with Matthew Perry...awesome

John Travolta as Vinnie Babarino and he played in the TV Movie "Boy In The
Plastic Bubble"



Valeri Bertinelli as Barbara and she played in the TV movie "In a Childs Name"

John Travolta as Vinnie Babarino and he played in the TV Movie "Boy In The
Plastic Bubble"



Valeri Bertinelli as Barbara and she played in the TV movie "In a Childs Name"
Was that the movie where she's pregnant and in poor health but refuses to abort the baby? If it is, that WAS a good performance.

Elizabeth Montgomery and Sally Field (especially in "Sybil"--that movie was unbelievably graphic and dramatic.)

John Travolta as Vinnie Babarino and he played in the TV Movie "Boy In The
Plastic Bubble"



Valeri Bertinelli as Barbara and she played in the TV movie "In a Childs Name"
In A Child's Name is that movie based on a true story abt a woman determined to win custody of her sister's son after she was murdered by her husband, a dentist. Brilliant movie. Brilliant acting by Valerie.

John Travolta. My man!:D I have that movie on DVD.

Robin Williams in the PBS movie "Seize the Day."

Here is EM in The Legend of Lizzie Borden:

http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/legend_of_lizzie_borden.php

Robin Williams in "Awakenings".

I liked Rick Schroder and Henry Winkler in the 1997 tv-movie Hostage High.

This was also one of Freddie Prinze Jr.'s early works.

Carol Burnett in the TV movie "Friendly Fire"(1979 I think)...I never once thought of her as being a wacky, silly performer while watching her in this.

Scott Baio in "The Boy Who Drank Too Much"

Was this show as good as I thought it was?

Scott Baio in "The Boy Who Drank Too Much"

Was this show as good as I thought it was?
I think I saw that years ago in Health class...but it's kind of a blur now.

I haven't seen the movie but they say comic actress, Monique blew the critics away with her dramatic performance in Precious.

I haven't seen the movie but they say comic actress, Monique blew the critics away with her dramatic performance in Precious.
True, but that was a theatrical release, not a TV movie.

Fred Savage & Candace Cameron-"No One Would Tell"
Nancy McKeon-"A Question of Love"
Alyssa Milano-one of those Amy Fisher stories
Mark-Paul Gosselaar-several

I remember No One Could Tell. Fred Savage made a creepy psycopath - and he also played a similar role on an episode of SVU. I think with this movie he proved he was a lot more than Kevin Arnold.

matthew perry in the ron clark story he should have won an emmy for it

sorry i didnt see that the ron clark story was already listed

Kimberly Williams in "Follow The Stars Home". LOVED that movie! BTW, Kimberly Williams played the sister-in-law on "According to Jim".

Along with Uprising David played an unlikable Cpt Sobel in Band of Brothers and also Alan Alda in And the Band Played On as an evil doctor

Sean Hayes in Martin and Lewis amazing for someone you are used to seeing being so silly

and Brad Garrett as Gleason

matthew perry in the ron clark story he should have won an emmy for it

I agree. That was a great movie and he should have been at least nominated for one.

BTW, Kimberly Williams played the sister-in-law on "According to Jim".

She is also Mrs. Brad Paisley :D

Danny DeVito was on Taxi and was the corrupted Car Salesman father Harry Wormwood on Matilda (1996) and also served as the narrator on there.

Along with Uprising David played an unlikable Cpt Sobel in Band of Brothers and also Alan Alda in And the Band Played On as an evil doctor

Sean Hayes in Martin and Lewis amazing for someone you are used to seeing being so silly

and Brad Garrett as Gleason
I forgot about Brad Garrett as Jackie Gleason. He did a great job!! :cool: :D

Sara Chalke of SCRUBS played a cancer victim and Eric Mccormack of Will and Grace played an evil murderer in Clark Rockefeller.