Del Shores (Writer)
Little is known about Del Shores, a figure with a modest footprint in Writer. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Martial Law
Sammo Law spins, kicks, and chops his way through crime as a one-man police force in Los Angeles. He's a tough law enforcer who comes to the U.S. in search of a former friend and protegée — and gets drafted as part of the LAPD.
Release Date1998-09-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Man
Episode Count1
Vote Count110
The Quick and the Dead
In 1876 Wyoming, the gun is the only law. And for Duncan and Suzanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian is the only hope.
Release Date1987-02-28
Charactersd Purdy Mantle
Vote Count50
Dad, the Angel & Me
A divorced doctor finds himself in real trouble living with his daughter alone now. But fortunately a guardian angel is watching over the lives of both of them.
Release Date1995-01-01
Charactersd Bobby
Vote Count7
Sordid Lives
An All-Star reading of the original stage play version of Sordid Lives! A family in a small Texas town is preparing for a funeral. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find his identity in West Hollywood, the son who has spent the past twenty-three years dressed as Tammy Wynette, the sister and her best friend (who live in delightfully kitschy homes), and the two daughters, one strait-laced and one a bit looser.
Release Date2020-05-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd
Del Shores: Sordid Confessions
Famed writer Del Shores pulls no punches in his latest live standup act, which features his hilarious and uncensored confessions about everything from raunchy love affairs to backstabbing during his career in entertainment.
Release Date2012-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd
Vote Count1
Del Shores: My Sordid Life
Famed comedian/writer Del Shores (Sordid Lives, Queer As Folk) shares the real-life stories that inspired his writing in this hilarious one-man show recorded live during his critically acclaimed tour across the U.S.
Release Date2011-04-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd
Vote Count3
Body Electric
With 25% of all body dysmorphic disorders stemming from the LGBTQ+ community, and 42% of all males with eating disorders identifying as gay men, filmmaker Nick Demos examines body image in the LGBTQ+ community, media obsession with youth culture, and his own journey to self-acceptance in his middle age.
Release Date2023-09-22
Charactersd Self
Del Shores: Naked. Sordid. Reality.
In this one man play, producer, playwright and actor Del Shores plays six distinct characters he has created based on people in his life. They are all Southern caricatures but more complicated than they may at first seem.
Release Date2014-09-30
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
The making of the film with Drew Casper.
Release Date2006-05-02
Charactersd Self
Touched by an Angel
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.
Release Date1994-09-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count183
Queer as Folk
Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this original series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA. The show offers an unapologetic look at modern, urban gay and lesbian lives while addressing the most critical health and political issues affecting the community. Sometimes racy, sometimes sensitive and always straight to the heart.
Release Date2000-12-03
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Episode Count8
Vote Count536
Dharma & Greg
Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002. It stars Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dharma and Greg Montgomery, a couple who got married on their first date despite being complete opposites. The series is co-produced by Chuck Lorre Productions, More-Medavoy Productions and 4 to 6 Foot Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The show's theme song was written and performed by composer Dennis C. Brown. Created by executive producers Dottie Dartland and Chuck Lorre, the comedy took much of its inspiration from so-called culture-clash "fish out of water" situations. The show earned eight Golden Globe nominations, six Emmy Award nominations, and six Satellite Awards nominations. Elfman earned a Golden Globe in 1999 for Best Actress.
Release Date1997-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count284
Ned & Stacey
A self-centered ad exec and a liberal journalist enter into a marriage of convenience. He's trying to boost his business image; she likes his apartment.
Release Date1995-09-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count14
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Two globetrotting spies with different styles team up. Posing as husband and wife, they guard their true identities at all costs from the bad guys‒and from each other.
Release Date1996-09-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count6
Sordid Lives: The Series
Sordid Lives: The Series is an American television series created, written, and directed by Del Shores and acts as a prequel to 2000 film Sordid Lives, also by Shores, self-described as a "Black comedy about white trash". The show is set in small town Texas and centers around the Ingram family. It stars Rue McClanahan, Olivia Newton-John, Caroline Rhea, Leslie Jordan, Beth Grant and most of the original cast of the film. It premiered on Logo in July 2008. In Canada, Sordid Lives the uncut version can be seen on Super Channel and the censored version on Out TV. According to Logo's contact page a second season will not be produced due to a lack of funding, and the Logo online web page for the series is no longer available. The series premiered in the UK on Film24 in August 2009.
Release Date2008-07-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count11
Live Shot
Live Shot is an American drama television show starring Jeff Yagher that aired in fall 1995 on UPN. The show centered on fictional television station, KXZX, in Los Angeles's Re-Action News. It was an ensemble piece, one of the rare occasions in television where there was no true main character. Most notable in the show's run was an early use of an ongoing story arc centering around the murder of a Los Angeles socialite. As the show was canceled with little warning, the story arc was never resolved. Also, sports reporter Lou Waller came out of the closet in the last act of the last episode to air. Consequently, the fallout of this event was never shown.
Release Date1995-08-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Southern Baptist Sissies
Southern Baptist Sissies is the live film of the GLAAD Award winning play by Del Shores. Southern Baptist Sissies is the story of four boys who are gay growing up in the Southern Baptist Church and how they each deal differently with the conflict between the teachings of the church and their sexuality.
Release Date2013-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count14
Shafted
What do you do when you find yourself in an elevator, alone with your gym crush? With sweaty palms and pits, Joel has a moment of balls, takes the leap of faith and asks him out. Rafi, the gym crush, hesitates a second too long, shattering Joel, who is now desperate to escape an expected rejection. Then, the unthinkable happens—the elevator stops. Between floors. They are stuck. With their rescue delayed, the two men are left with two bottles of screw-top wine and an awkwardly long time to consider each other beyond their first assumptions. With his world stopped, can Joel figure out why he’s stuck? And not just in this elevator?
Release Date2023-05-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
A Very Sordid Wedding
Del Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the gradually liberalizing locals and the new fundamentalist preacher in the wake of the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision.
Release Date2017-03-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count26
Tinseltown
This short made as a pilot by The Jim Henson Company for the Logo Network in 2007 revolves around the lives of a gay couple, Bobby and Samson (anthropomorphic pig and bull puppets respectively) balancing their romance, family and careers in Hollywood alongside a cast of supporting human characters. Was considered lost media for years until it resurfaced on Youtube on June 24th, 2026.
Release Date2007-11-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Sordid Lives
As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their sordid lives.
Release Date2000-05-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count51
The Wilde Girls
A young girl hopes to follow in her famous singer mother's footsteps, but her mother fears the negative effect fame could have on her daughter's life.
Release Date2001-11-04
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed.
Release Date1990-05-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count9
Blues for Willadean
Under the thumb of her abusive husband, post-middle age Willadean feels life has passed her by until she makes some unlikely friends.
Release Date2012-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count2
Cry
The lives of a bullied teenager struggling to survive his high school tormentors and a lonely elderly man wrestling with the loss of his wife and his own mortality collide after a tragic accident.
Release Date2013-04-04
Raid of the Rainbow Lounge
A full length documentary film recounting the events surrounding the widely publicized and controversial raid of a Fort Worth, Texas gay bar in 2009. Following a sordid aftermath, Fort Worth would become a leader in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) equality. However, that journey was not smooth and without controversies. Witness history unfold as this film documents that journey from the perspective of eyewitnesses, activists and politicians who helped change the city. Narrated by television icon and Emmy nominated actress, Meredith Baxter.
Release Date2012-03-15
Vote Count3
Gay Men Get Real! Covid in Our Community
A narrative short comedic parody of a Covid-19 interactive webinar for gay men that exposes the truth...and more!
Release Date2022-04-22
Six Characters in Search of a Play
Sordid Lives creator Del Shores’ new film of his one-man show, directed by Emerson Collins, proves once and for all that he is not a writer, he’s a self-proclaimed thief! In Six Characters In Search Of A Play, riffing on Pirandello’s classic title, Shores brings to life six one-of-a-kind characters he has met in real life that haven’t quite made it into one of his plays, films or TV shows. The audience will hear the truth behind how he collected these eccentrics and their stories as he portrays his hilarious, off-the-rails encounters with them. The audience will meet Yvonne, the anti-vegetarian Dallas waitress; Sarah, a Trump-hating elderly actress with an inhaler in one hand and a cigarette in the other; Jimmy Ray, the evolving, Magic Mike-loving latent Georgia redneck; Loraine, the once-brilliant drama teacher who has lost her damn mind and is now obsessed with porn; Marsha, the monkey-hating lesbian with COPD; and Aunt Bobby Sue, the racist Republican with a heart of gold.
Release Date2019-03-01
Vote Count1
Cognitive
A short film about a man searching to reconcile his faith and his sexuality.
Release Date2019-08-01
Vote Count2