Biography: Cloris Leachman |
Cloris Leachman seems capable of playing any kind of role, and she has consistently demonstrated her versatility in films and on TV since the 1950s. On the big screen, she can be seen in such films as Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Butch Cassidy and the... more
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Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984)
Cast: Jeff Goldblum
Tags: Biopic Showbiz Drama Drama
Length: 95min
Physically, the gangling, long-necked Jeff Goldblum is all wrong for the role of fabled TV comedian Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962) but you tend to forget this as Goldblum expertly reenacts some of Kovacs' most famous comic bits. No Kovacs bio would be...
Length: 98min
An author is haunted by the spirit of her dead husband in this routine supernatural thriller by Susan Shadburne. Morgan Hanna (Dee Wallace Stone) returns to the island where her husband died several years earlier in hops of breaking through her...
Cast: LeVar Burton
Tags: Melodrama Message Movie Drama
Length: 97min
First telecast March 2, 1981, The Acorn People was adapted by director Joan Tewksbury from the book by Ron Jones. Ted Bessell plays a no-nonsense children's counselor who takes a job at a summer camp for severely handicapped children. The kids...
The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (1983)
Tags: Melodrama Drama Family Drama
Length: 72min
One of the most famous of all ABC Afterschool Specials, The Woman Who Willed a Miracle is the true story of two remarkable people. Cloris Leachman stars as middle-aged Wisconsin nurse May Lemke, who adopts a six-month-old boy named Leslie and brings...
Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Adventure Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy
Length: 93min
In the fourth installment of the "Herbie" series of Volkswagen Bug fantasies, the magical car has lost a lot of its sheen as it is retreaded into a journey through Central America. D.J. (Charles Martin Smith) and Pete (Stephan W. Burns) want to enter...
The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
Cast: Edward Herrmann Barbara Harris Michael Constantine
Tags: Crime Comedy Religious Comedy Comedy
Length: 105min
One of the bigger non-cartoon moneymakers for Disney in the 1970s, The North Avenue Irregulars is predicated on the premise of the "Neighborhood Watch" system. Priest Michael Hill (Edward Herrmann), newly arrived on North Avenue, decides to buck the...
Cast: David Janssen
Tags: Drama Action Docudrama Sea Adventure Disaster Film
Length: 98min
An Anglo-American co-production, S.O.S. Titanic is a costly, 150-minute reenactment of the infamous sea disaster of 1912. Heading the cast is David Janssen as millionaire John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Titanic, and Cloris Leachman as raucous...
Cast: Melissa Sue Anderson
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Ensemble Film
Length: 100min
The made-for-TV Advice to the Lovelorn stars Cloris Leachman as a "Dear Abby" type newspaper advice columnist. Walter Brooke costars as her editor, who discourages her efforts to follow up her advice in person. But follow she does, trying to untangle...
Cast: Gary Busey Eddie Albert Cloris Leachman Annette O'Toole
Tags: Romance Romantic Drama
Length: 101min
In a conventional, tried and true way, Foolin' Around tells the predictable story of a couple of widely divergent students who fall in love against all odds. Wes (Gary Busey) is attending a well-endowed college when he signs up for a psychology...
History of the World -- Part I (1981)
Cast: Harvey Korman Mel Brooks Madeline Kahn Orson Welles Paul Mazursky Fritz Feld
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 92min
Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville...
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