Dick Van Patten
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1928-12-09
Locus Natus: Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Et ut: John Acerno, Richard Van Patten, Dick Van Patton, Richard Vincent Van Patten
Spaceballs
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless...
release : 1987.06.24popularis : 22.734
The Odd Couple: Together Again
Felix's daughter Edna is getting married, and his wife Gloria throws him out of the house for a few days, so that she can plan the wedding herself,...
release : 1993.09.24popularis : 3.424
Westworld
Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds—ancient Rome, Medieval times and the Old West—populated by human-like...
release : 1973.08.15popularis : 16.134
Gus
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard...
release : 1976.07.07popularis : 4.015
Quiet Kill
An attractive married woman and a member of the 'Country Club Tennis Set', is being neglected by her workaholic doctor husband, Jerry (Corbin...
release : 2004.07.01popularis : 1.314
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules...
release : 1993.07.28popularis : 27.947
The Crooked Hearts
A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly...
release : 1972.11.08popularis : 2.899
The Strongest Man in the World
Medfield College science major Dexter Riley and his classmates have been working on a new vitamin compound when a lab accident creates a supercharged...
release : 1975.02.06popularis : 13.04
Soylent Green
In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The...
release : 1973.04.18popularis : 17.696
Snowball Express
When John Baxter inherits a ski resort in the Rocky Mountains, he quits his job in New York and moves the family west to run it. Only to find that...
release : 1972.12.22popularis : 8.245
High Anxiety
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their...
release : 1977.12.25popularis : 7.452
The Midnight Hour
Phil, Melissa, Mitch, Mary, and Vinnie are high school friends, who unwittingly raise the dead on Halloween night. Once the dead have returned,...
release : 1985.11.01popularis : 7.071
Beware! The Blob
A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the...
release : 1972.06.21popularis : 4.877
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but...
release : 2003.09.04popularis : 9.808
Charly
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to...
release : 1968.09.23popularis : 9.103
I Love Liberty
An all-star variety special saluting America.
release : 1982.03.21popularis : 2.971
Joe Kidd
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them...
release : 1972.07.19popularis : 21.03
Big Brother Trouble
Younger brother Mitch is having all kinds of problems competing with his older brother Sean over a girl that just moved in next door
release : 2000.04.21popularis : 2.352
High Powder
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...
release : 1982.06.29popularis : 0.969
The Shaggy D.A.
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has...
release : 1976.12.17popularis : 13.494
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
Arthur is asked to pick up a bird for Thanksgiving dinner, so he brings home a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta. The family welcome her with open...
release : 1984.11.19popularis : 4.387
Hitchcock and Mel: Spoofing the Master of Suspense
A short documentary exploring the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Mel Brooks and the role it played in the production of "High Anxiety."
release : 2009.12.15popularis : 0.522
Freaky Friday
School girl Annabel is hassled by her mother, and Mrs. Andrews is annoyed with her daughter, Annabel. They both think that the other has an easy...
release : 1976.12.17popularis : 16.652
The Good, the Bad and the Funny
Featurette with Dick Van Patten and Tim Conway on the making of The Shaggy D.A..
release : 2006.03.07popularis : 4.791
Fred MacMurray: With Fondness
Actors remember the great Fred MacMurray.
release : 2006.03.07popularis : 2.456
Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas
Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas
release : 1982.12.07popularis : 2.205
The Price of Air
In the idyllic suburban distopia of Orange, the affable but clueless Paul agrees to be a drug courier for Mr. Ball who's about to take delivery of a...
release : 2000.09.29popularis : 1.83
Opposite Day
The world goes backwards on Opposite Day. The kids become adults, and the adults become kids.
release : 2009.11.07popularis : 4.056
Groom Lake
When Kate discovers she has a terminal illness, she persuades boyfriend Andy to visit Groom Lake, a reputed hotbed of alien activity, hoping to...
release : 2002.09.21popularis : 3.284
Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker
A rebellious 17-year-old girl ignores parental advice and joins her friends as a beach-bound regular on the local hitchhiking circuit, being picked...
release : 1979.09.21popularis : 5.13
Violent Midnight
An axe murderer is loose in a small New England town.
release : 1963.05.22popularis : 2.392
Demolition High
When a group of terrorists (led by Luther) take over a high school making the students in it their hostages, it is up to several of the students (led...
release : 1996.04.12popularis : 2.998
Eight Is Enough: A Family Reunion
Years have passed and all the Bradfords, with the exception of Nicholas, have moved out of their Sacramento home and started their own lives. They...
release : 1987.10.18popularis : 4.009
An Eight Is Enough Wedding
This second made-for-television reunion film finds eldest son David on the brink of marriage to a divorcee. However, some of his sisters would prefer...
release : 1989.10.15popularis : 3.829
Making It
In this coming of age comedy, a cocky high school student thinks nothing of using the people around him to satisfy his self-centered needs, until...
release : 1971.03.21popularis : 0.924
Final Embrace
A detective assigned to protect a pop singer gets romantically involved with her twin sister after the singer is murdered.
release : 1992.01.01popularis : 2.404
The Century Turns
An old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. He teams up with college-educated criminologist to...
release : 1972.10.08popularis : 2.134
Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour
Jay Leno hosts "Jay Leno's Family Comedy Hour," a one hour special featuring a humorous look at the American family.
release : 1987.11.25popularis : 0.552
Dirty Little Billy
Clearly influenced by the darker, more sinister style of spaghetti westerns, Dirty Little Billy offers a unique insight into the beginnings of the...
release : 1972.11.01popularis : 4.243
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso,and her pet monkey, Mr....
release : 1988.03.01popularis : 15.76
The Santa Trap
It's Christmas Eve and Judy Emerson is told there's no such thing as Santa. Determined to prove her family wrong, she sets an elaborate trap and...
release : 2002.12.13popularis : 2.239
Love Is All There Is
The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaurant in the Bronx, N.Y., drawing the ire of...
release : 1996.05.10popularis : 4.514
A Dangerous Place
When Ethan's older brother Greg is found dead, the police rule the case a suicide, but Ethan suspects foul play stemming from Greg's recent...
release : 1994.11.14popularis : 3.072
With This Ring
A romantic comedy about various engaged couples and their families who, as wedding dates rapidly approach, are caught up in a whirlwind of emotional...
release : 1978.05.05popularis : 0.509
Going to the Chapel
As a couple (Valentine and Greene) prepare to get married all sorts of uninvited and unexpected guests arrive and secrets are revealed.
release : 1988.10.09popularis : 1.598
Zachariah
Two gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.
release : 1971.01.24popularis : 1.613
Treasure of Matecumbe
In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle...
release : 1976.07.01popularis : 4.152
Combat Academy
"Police Academy"-style comedy set in a military school. Two errant high-school students are ordered by a judge to spend a year at a prestigious...
release : 1986.11.23popularis : 4.813
A Mouse, a Mystery and Me
A Christmas special about a world-class mystery-writing mouse who spends Christmas Eve with his sleuthing partners tracking down a missing Santa. The...
release : 1987.12.13popularis : 0.588
Joker's Wild
A jealous mobster chases a screenwriter, who likes his friend, from New York to the Caribbean.
release : 1992.10.20popularis : 0.418
Television: The First Fifty Years
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 1.471
Acts of Love and Other Comedies
A funny anthology featuring various sketches about people having trouble with love and sex.
release : 1973.03.15popularis : 1.672
Lunch Wagon
Three women start a lunch wagon business but run into stiff resistance from a competitor.
release : 1981.09.01popularis : 5.208
Silver Skies
A group of eccentric retirees' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them.
release : 2016.09.22popularis : 1.518
The Fairest of Them All
A celebration of the art of animation as seen through the eyes of Walt Disney. Dick Van Patten hosts and introduces many of the artists who worked on...
release : 1983.05.28popularis : 2.698
Superdad
A dad tries to impress the daughter -- a soon-to-be college student he thinks is hanging around with a bad crowd.
release : 1973.12.14popularis : 2.046
Dirty Tennis
A great comedy about how to win at tennis by playing dirty.
release : 1989.01.01popularis : 1.522
Angel on Abbey Street
An amiable and benign hobo named Briefcase makes his living by claiming to be the Tooth Fairy and asking passersby to fund his business. Most folks...
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 2.614
Sherman's Way: A Kid's Guide to Coping with Change
Sherman must learn how to deal with his changing family situation with the help of his good friend Corny.
release : 1996.01.01popularis : 2.615
The Sure Hand of God
A struggling widow vows to save her teenage daughter from a life of hardship by snaring her a wealthy husband.
release : 2004.02.18popularis : 5.639
14 Going on 30
Danny is hopelessly in love with his teacher Peggy Noble. Of course she doesn't even notice him while she plans to marry the obnoxious coach Roy...
release : 1988.03.06popularis : 2.024
Evasive Action
When Redwood Federal Penitentiary closes, there are going to be several hundred prisoners looking for a new home. Several of the most dangerous, all...
release : 1998.01.01popularis : 2.681
Sarah's Choice
Sarah Collins is considering an abortion. Before she makes her final decision, she is presented with three visions causing her to think about the...
release : 2009.11.01popularis : 2.517
Demolition University
College students on a field trip encounter terrorists planning to poison the city's water supply.
release : 1997.10.27popularis : 2.26
Hoodwinked
Burnt-out private dick Jacob Aloysius Spanner teams up with his brother to help an old adversary track down his one remaining loved one, his...
release : 1989.11.15popularis : 5.245
John Candy: Comic Spirit
A tribute to the late John Candy from the cast of Spaceballs.
release : 2005.05.03popularis : 2.376
Picnic
A southern bell falls for a handsome drifter with no prospects, going against her parents' wishes to marry a rich businessman.
release : 1986.11.10popularis : 1.284
The Secret Dream Models of Oliver Nibble
The film starts out B&W and shows Oliver Nibble being berated by his wife. They go to a cinema and Oliver's imagination runs wild. The film turns...
release : 1967.01.01popularis : 0.527
A Memory of Two Mondays
Workers in an auto parts warehouse in 1933 New York City inhabit a bleak, dead-end world in the depths of the Depression where, at least, they have...
release : 1971.01.28popularis : 5.979
First Dog
A foster boy is befriended by a lost dog who turns out to belong to the President of the United States. The boy decides to run away from the foster...
release : 2010.10.22popularis : 5.767
Shakespeare Loves Rembrandt
A writer and a painter decide to leave the big city and move to the country. In order to support themselves, the couple design greeting cards.
release : 1974.06.12popularis : 2.418
Sorority Kill
A psychotic killer holds six people captive in a sorority house, each of them realizing that their captor's mind is like a defective time bomb and...
release : 1974.03.05popularis : 7.79