Tony Spiridakis (born in Queens, New York City) is an American - Greek film director, writer, actor, producer and playwright best known for such films as Queens Logic, Tinseltown, The Last Word, If Lucy Fell and Ash Tuesday. He is the writer of Ezra, which he produced with director Tony Goldwyn, William Horberg, and Jon Kilik. The film, which stars Bobby Cannavale, Robert DeNiro, Rose Byrne, Whoopi Goldberg and Vera Farmiga, follows a struggling comedian and his autistic son on a cross-country road trip. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is being released theatrically by Bleecker Street nationwide in May 2024. Spiridakis has developed scripts for Dustin Hoffman, Richard Dreyfuss, and Diane Keaton as well as for iconic producers such as Laura Ziskin, Stacey Snider, Mary Parent, and Warren Littlefield. Other films include Tinseltown, based on his acclaimed play Self Storage, both starring Ron Perlman and Joe Pantoliano; Noise, which he directed and produced, starring Ally Sheedy and John Slattery; the documentary road trip film Driving to Ground Zero; and If Lucy Fell, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Ben Stiller. Spiridakis’ play The Last Word had a successful run in Los Angeles before he adapted, produced, and directed the film starring Timothy Hutton. His post-9/11 drama, Beyond The Ashes, co-starred Spiridakis with Giancarlo Esposito, Janeane Garofalo, and Tony Goldwyn. Spiridakis’ TV credits include co-creating and producing the Fox series The Heights with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth, the CBS crime drama Falcone with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Moresco, and the Netflix legal drama Justice with Emmy-winning writer William Finkelstein. Spiridakis studied at the Yale School of Drama and has appeared in dozens of TV and films, including House, L.A. Law, The Equalizer, Bay City Blues, and Death Wish 3. Additionally, he produced and acted in Academy and Tony Award-winning writer Doug Wright’s play Callbacks and worked with Stanley Kubrick on the film Full Metal Jacket. Currently, Spiridakis is a writer and consulting producer on the MGM+ apocalyptic drama series Earth Abides, based on the 1949 sci-fi novel by George R. Stewart.. He is also adapting Sandy Greenberg’s acclaimed memoir, Hello Darkness, My Old Friend, for Wayfarer Studios. Projects in development include The Angry One, Sospiro Di Vita (Breath of Life), and Mike's Place, the true story of a blues bar in Tel Aviv during the Second Intifada that survives the devastation of a suicide bombing, for director Todd Komarnicki, with Antoine Fuqua and Andrew Levitas producing. A longtime educator who is passionate about working with emerging filmmakers, Spiridakis is the Founder and Executive Director of the North Fork Arts Center in Greenport, N.Y. In 2012 he co-founded the Manhattan Film Institute, an intensive film workshop and mentorship program that has produced nearly 300 short films and transformed the lives of many filmmakers. Spiridakis is a father of two and a strong advocate for autism awareness.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 17, 1958 (68)
- Queens, New York, USA
- Actor, writer, producer and director
- 10 on MovieCove · 18 credits in all
What are Tony Spiridakis' films like?
Across their 8 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Morality.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 2 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
A split, not a type: Light 4 · Serious 2 · Dark 1
Grounded 5 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 1
Gentle 3 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
Steady 3 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 0 · Some laughs 7 · Funny 0
A split, not a type: Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 2 · Relentless 1
Casual 6 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 5 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 1
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 2 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Tony Spiridakis' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (5).
Subscription and free streaming for Tony Spiridakis' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
18 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page.
Earth Abides(2024)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all shows
Ezra(2023)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all films
Hiking (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
House(2004)
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all shows
Noise (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Ash Tuesday(2003)
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films
Tinseltown(1997)
Midcredits score: 5th percentile of all films
If Lucy Fell(1996)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
The Last Word (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Queens Logic(1991)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Hometown Boy Makes Good(1990)
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Monsters(1988)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows
Leg Work (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
Harem (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)
Death Wish 3(1985)
Midcredits score: 40th percentile of all films
The Equalizer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Untitled 'Hello Darkness, My Old Friend' Adaptation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Untitled Mike's Place Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 56th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 17 titles, 15 of them dated from 1985 to 2024; peak year 1985.
Biggest box office
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Highest rated
Ezra (2023)
Most popular right now
Earth Abides (2024)
Film career
Peak 1985 · fewer prominent film roles lately. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 1985Screen debut· Death Wish 3
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Tony Spiridakis' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 33rd percentile, the median of all 7; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 32nd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th4
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 10 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved1
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Mixed7
Reviewers score the acting 62/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles; fans 74, detractors 50. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Tony Spiridakis' work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Tony Spiridakis work with?
People who share at least 2 of Tony Spiridakis' MovieCove titles; Tony Goldwyn shares the most, 2.
- Tony GoldwynShared titles: Ezra (2023), Ash Tuesday (2003)See all 2 shared titles with Tony Goldwyn
- Nicole HansenShared titles: Ash Tuesday (2003), Tinseltown (1997)See all 2 shared titles with Nicole Hansen
