Art Carney Filmography

Born:: November 4, 1918 in Mount Vernon, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Arthur William Matthew Carney
Biography:: Though Art Carney would grow up to become a shy, retiring, self-effacing man, he was quite the class clown in school. HIs grades never rising above mediocre, Carney excelled in mimicry, performing astonishingly accurate imitations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fred Allen, Ned Sparks, and other 1930s...Read More

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The Best of the Honeymooners: Lost Episodes Special Edition

Synopsis: This collection features a variety of the funniest, if seldom-seen moments in The Honeymooners, and, of course, stars comedy greats Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph. For a more extensive collection of these "lost" episodes, try The Honeymooners: The Lost Episodes Read More

2001
The Honeymooners: The Wit and Wisdom of Ed Norton

2000
The Great Gleason

Synopsis: This collection features a selection of classic footage and backstage looks at the popular "Jackie Gleason Show." ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Last Action Hero

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Frank McRae, Anthony Quinn, Charles Dance, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a Read More

1993
The Honeymooners: Greatest Battles

Synopsis: Featuring the classically comedic antics of Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, The Honeymooners: Greatest Battles is a 60-minute compilation spotlighting some of the series' most notable moments of verbal warfare between Ralph (Gleason) and Alice (Meadows), his no-nonsense wife. ~ Tracie Read More

1991
Where Pigeons Go to Die

Actors: Robert Hy Gorman, Michael Landon

Synopsis: Michael Landon produced, directed and wrote the 1990 TV movie Where Pigeons Go to Die. Landon also narrated the story as the adult counterpart of young protagonist Robert Hy Gorman. When Landon returns to his grandfather's house with the intention of selling it, he flashes back 40 years and Read More

1990
Honeymooners: Valentine's Special

1988
The Emperor's New Clothes

Actors: Sid Caesar, Clive Revill, Robert Morse, Lysette Anthony, Julian Joy-Chagrin

Synopsis: This witty version of Hans Christian Anderson's moral tale of a king whose vanity makes him an easy mark for con artists, features Sid Caesar and Art Carney. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Night Friend

Actors: Chuck Shamata, Heather Kjollesdal, Daniel MacIvor, Real Andrews, Cynthia Belliveau

Synopsis: A priest tries to help a young prostitute escape the life of sex and drugs in this exploitation drama. Father Jack (Chuck Shamata) tries to help 14-year-old Lindsay (Heather Kjollesdal) get off the streets to save her young life. Monsignor O'Brien (Art Carney) becomes concerned when Jack seems to Read More

1987
Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was not, as has sometimes been reported, a remake of the 1938 Spencer Tracy film Boys Town. It was filmed on location at Father Flannagan's Nebraska-based home for troublesome and troubled youths, but the story is strictly contemporary. Art Carney stars as a crusty Read More

1986
The Blue Yonder

Synopsis: In this youthful fantasy, a young boy, learns how to time travel and decides to try and save the life of his grandfather, a pilot who tragically died while attempting to fly across the Atlantic. The trouble is, the boy does not stop to think about the historical ramifications of his actions. Read More

1986
The Night They Saved Christmas

Actors: Art Carney, Jaclyn Smith, Paul Williams

Synopsis: Art Carney effectively portrays a weary, wisecracking Santa Claus (not the department store variety, but the real McCoy) in the made-for-TV The Night They Saved Christmas. Right now, Santa has very little to be jolly about: his North Pole toy factory is threatened with demolition by greedy oil Read More

1985
Izzy and Moe

Synopsis: Honeymooners stars Jackie Gleason and Art Carney re-team for this tea-teetotaling comedy about a pair of down-on-their-luck vaudeville actors who go to work as prohibition agents. The time is the Roaring Twenties, and the advent of the motion picture has made vaudeville old news. When the stage Read More

1985
The Undergrads

Synopsis: Art Carney is virtually the only American cast member in the Canadian TV movie The Undergrads. Carney plays an elderly rest-home resident, while Chris Makepeace co-stars as his teen-aged grandson. Makepeace sneaks Carney out of the home, and together grandpa and grandson attend college. If it Read More

1985
Faerie Tale Theatre: The Emperor's New Clothes

Synopsis: Featuring an all-star cast, this episode from the cable-television series Faerie Tale Theatre tells the tale of how a vain king gets his comeuppance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
The Muppets Take Manhattan

Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Richard Hunt, Art Carney

Synopsis: Jim Henson's Muppets find themselves in Manhattan yearning to get a musical on Broadway in this charming film that also chides show business and its foibles. Kermit the Frog has just put together a successful variety show at Danhurst college (probably somewhere between Amherst and Dartmouth), and Read More

1984
Firestarter

Actors: David Keith, George C. Scott, Drew Barrymore, Martin Sheen, Heather Locklear, Art Carney

Synopsis: Firestarter is based on a bone-chilling novel by Steven King. Drew Barrymore plays Charlie McGee the young daughter of Andrew (David Keith) and Vicky (Heather Locklear) McGee, who years earlier had been guinea pigs for a top secret experiment. As a result, Charlie has acquired the unenviable Read More

1984
The Naked Face

Actors: Roger Moore, Rod Steiger, Elliott Gould, Art Carney, Anne Archer

Synopsis: In this fast-paced, often complex murder mystery, a psychiatrist's patient and later his secretary are killed, yet the police seem unable to come up with any answers so the doc takes matters into his own hands. Roger Moore is Dr. Judd Stevens, a rather meek Chicago psychiatrist whose patient is Read More

1984
Terrible Joe Moran

Actors: Ellen Barkin, James Cagney, Art Carney

Synopsis: 84-year-old James Cagney delivered his final performance in the TV movie Terrible Joe Moran. Cagney plays a former boxing champ, now enfeebled and bound to a wheelchair (we see him in his prime via a clip from Cagney's 1932 vehicle Winner Take All). Long estranged from his family, the ex-boxer Read More

1984
Jackie Gleason's Honeybloopers

1984
A Doctor's Story

Actors: Art Carney, Uta Hagen

Synopsis: A TV pilot film, Doctor's Story explores the rights--or rather, the lack of them--of geriatric patients. Howard E. Rollins Jr. plays a young doctor who resents the throwaway attitude conveyed towards the elderly. Among Rollins' patients are a near-senile old man (Art Carney), a woman (Vivece Lindfors Read More

1984
Better Late Than Never

Actors: David Niven, Art Carney, Maggie Smith, Kimberly Partridge, Catherine Hicks

Synopsis: The usually reliable director Bryan Forbes came acropper in Better Late Than Never. In one of his last films, a noticeably weary David Niven plays Nick, the supposed grandfather of 10-year-old heiress Bridget (Kimberly Partridge). Charley (Art Carney) shows up to cramp Nick's act, claiming that he Read More

1983
Take This Job and Shove It

Actors: Robert Hays, Art Carney, Barbara Hershey, David Keith, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Inspired by Johnny Paycheck's song of the same name, Take This Job and Shove It is a comedy/drama of big business vs. little guys. His corporate employers put Frank Maclin in charge of a project to shape up a newly acquired brewery. It just so happens that this places him back in his Iowa hometown Read More

1981
St. Helens

Actors: Art Carney, David Huffman, Cassie Yates, Ron O'Neal, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Ernest Pintoff--jazz trumpeter, painter, animated cartoonist, film theorist--directed his first dramatic feature, Harvey Middleman, Fireman, in 1965. Since that time, Pintoff has refused to be stylistically pigeonholed, turning out everything from comedy concerts (Dynamite Chicken) to spoofish T&A Read More

1981
Bitter Harvest

Actors: Ron Howard, Art Carney, Tarah Nutter, David Knell, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Ron Howard plays a young farmer and family man whose dairy herd is being decimated by illness. As if this weren't enough, Howard's young son falls seriously ill. The state's agricultural officials could do something about Howard's plight, but red tape and bureaucracy rules the day. Based on a book Read More

1981
Leprechaun's Christmas Gold

Actors: Art Carney, Peggy Cass

Synopsis: An enchanted being from the Emerald Isle must rescue his village from an evil monster in this animated adventure from Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass. Dinty Doyle the Leprechaun wants to find the ideal Christmas tree for his family's home, but just when he's found a seemingly perfect pine near the Read More

1981
Roadie

Actors: Meat Loaf, Kaki Hunter, Art Carney, Gailard Sartain, Don Cornelius

Synopsis: Roadie is a showbiz saga about the working slobs who make live pop-music performances happen. Texas good ol' boy Travis W. Redfish (pop singer Meat Loaf) drives a Shiner beer truck on his appointed rounds, but he becomes smitten with rock groupie Lola Bouillabase (Kaki Hunter), a "roadie" whose Read More

1980
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story

Actors: Michael Beck, Telly Savalas, Ronny Cox, Alex Karras, Art Carney

Synopsis: Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw Indian said to be the youngest man ever incarcerated in the Read More

1980
Fighting Back

Actors: Robert Urich

Synopsis: The overused title Fighting Back made its first appearance of the 1980s in this TV biopic. Robert Urich stars as real-life football player Rocky Bleier, who joins the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1968. Rocky's career is curtailed by military service in Vietnam. On August 20, 1969, Bleier is seriously Read More

1980
Steel

Actors: Lee Majors, Jennifer O'Neill, Art Carney, George Kennedy, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: This action drama based around a construction site was a star vehicle for television actor Lee Majors between his two series gigs on The Six Million Dollar Man (1974-78) and The Fall Guy (1981-86). Majors stars as Mike Catton, a former well-regarded construction site foreman who became afraid of Read More

1980
The Ravagers

Actors: Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Art Carney, Ernest Borgnine, Anthony James

Synopsis: Set in the ravaged post-WWIII world, this grim sci-fi fantasy centers on the vengeful quest of a bereaved husband whose wife was raped and murdered by a gang of leather-clad bikers. After getting his revenge, the fellow roars off on the other's bike and along the way encounters another survivor Read More

1979
Letters from Frank

Synopsis: Frank is Frank Miller (Art Carney), a 65 year old newspaper man. His letters are to his oldest son Richard (Mike Farrell), and they're decidedly on the vitriolic side. Frank, you see, was involuntarily retired from his job and replaced by a computer. But with the help and support of his wife Betty Read More

1979
Going in Style

Actors: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: Joe (George Burns), Al (Art Carney), and Willie (Lee Strasberg) are three senior citizens who share a small apartment in New York City. They live off social security checks and spend their days sitting on a park bench, reading newspapers, feeding pigeons, and fending off obnoxious children. It's a Read More

1979
Defiance

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Theresa Saldana, Fernando Lopez, Danny Aiello, Art Carney

Synopsis: Although it is far from a perfectly contrived drama, Defiance has its moments of high emotions and rising fear. Tommy (Jan Michael Vincent) takes up temporary housing in a New York neighborhood plagued by a violent gang, the Souls. Tommy is waiting for his next assignment as a seaman and though he Read More

1979
Alice: My Cousin, Art Carney

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, Art Carney is the guest star in this episode. And yes, Carney is someone's cousin--actually the sixth-cousin of daffy waitress Vera (Beth Howland). Hoping to capitalize on this fact, Vera's boss Mel tries to persuade the actor to endorse a new line of frozen chili Read More

1979
Sunburn

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, Eleanor Parker, William Daniels

Synopsis: Jake (Charles Grodin), an insurance investigator, is assigned to probe the killing of a wealthy businessman in Acapulco. To help him, he hires a beautiful New York model, Ellie (Farah Fawcett), to act as his wife, and they pretend to be tourists on vacation. Art Carney plays Marcus, a local Read More

1979
Movie, Movie

Actors: George C. Scott, Barbara Harris, Eli Wallach, Trish VanDevere, Red Buttons

Synopsis: This spoof of a "typical" double-feature bill of the 1930s is introduced by George Burns, who explains that we're about to see two classic films produced by the legendary Warren Brothers. The first, "Dynamite Fists," is a black-and-white takeoff of such boxing dramas as Golden Boy. Harry Hamlin Read More

1978
The Star Wars Holiday Special

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew

Synopsis: Wookie sidekick Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew) races across the galaxy to spend the holidays with his family in this TV movie, which was broadcast after Star Wars became a pop phenomenon but before the release of The Empire Strikes Back. Sometime after the events of the first film, Han Solo (Harrison Ford Read More

1978
House Calls

Actors: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin, Candice Azzara

Synopsis: Recently widowed Dr. Nichols (Walter Matthau) finds himself ill at ease in re-entering the singles scene. Then he meets Ann Atkinson (Glenda Jackson), a patient recuperating from a jaw operation. Freshly divorced from a philandering spouse, Jackson is as reluctant to inaugurate a lasting Read More

1978
Say It Ain't So, Chief

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Say It Ain't So, Chief features Art Carney as police chief Paul Lanigan. A well-known lowlife shows up at the station to accuse Lanigan of accepting a bribe. When the accuser turns up dead, the chief is implicated in the murder. Lanigan's good friend Rabbi David Small (Bruce Solomon Read More

1977
In Hot Weather the Crime Rate Soars

Synopsis: When a prominent psychiatrist is murdered, the mayor and one of the leading politicians in town become enmeshed in the investigation. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
The Cadaver in the Clutter

Synopsis: When his brother is murdered and his niece is tried for the crime, a recluse finds himself in the public eye whether he wants to be or not. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Scott Joplin

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery, Eubie Blake, Godfrey Cambridge

Synopsis: Billy Dee Williams stars as legendary ragtime pianist/composer Scott Joplin in this 1977 biopic. Despite his brilliance, Joplin (1868-1917) was confined by the color of his skin to the dregs of show business in the late 19th century. While competing in a musical contest, Joplin introduces his most Read More

1977
The Late Show

Actors: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: Even though he barely makes enough money to cover his expenses and finds divorce cases (his bread and butter) unsavory, aging detective Ira Wells (Art Carney) is determined to stay active and to retain some amount of self-respect. When his partner Harry Regan (Howard Duff) is killed while on Read More

1977
Lanigan's Rabbi

Synopsis: Lanigan's Rabbi is the pilot for the subsequent TV series based on Harry Kemelman's novels about crimesolving Rabbi David Small. Stuart Margolin plays the Rabbi, while Art Carney is top-billed as the police detective who frequently relies on Small's intuition. This initial episode, adapted from Read More

1976
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Katherine

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Art Carney

Synopsis: Brilliantly constructed in semi-documentary fashion, Katherine is the story of how a young upper-middle-class girl gradually radicalizes into a violence-prone revolutionary. The story is related in flashbacks sparked by "interviews" with Katherine (Sissy Spacek), her troubled parents (Art Carney, Jane Wyatt Read More

1975
W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Art Carney, Conny van Dyke, Jerry Reed, Ned Beatty, James Hampton

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds stars in this fast-paced "road" picture as W. W. Bright, a 1950s Southern con man. He takes over Takes over the Dixie Dancekings, a two-bit country-western act headed by Dixie (Conny Van Dyke). Bright wheels and deals to get the Dixie Dancekings into the Grand Ole Opry. Meanwhile, he Read More

1975
Death Scream

Synopsis: The 1975 TV movie Death Scream is based (like High Plains Drifter) on the shameful Kitty Genovese affair of 1964, in which a N.Y.C. woman was stabbed to death while 38 witnesses locked their windows and doors and pretended not to hear. Raul Julia stars as the detective who investigates the murder Read More

1975
Harry and Tonto

Actors: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: In Paul Mazursky's rueful character drama, 57-year-old Art Carney plays Harry, a 70-plus Manhattan widower who loses his tiny apartment to the wrecking ball. Accompanied by his pet, an aged cat named Tonto, Harry sets out on an odyssey to Los Angeles. During his journey, he finds a kindred spirit Read More

1974
The Snoop Sisters - Female Instinct

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick

Synopsis: First telecast December 16, 1972, The Snoop Sisters was the pilot for a Richard Levinson/William Link detective series. Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick play a couple of mystery writers who happen to be siblings. With the help of their pragmatic chauffeur (Art Carney), the Snoop Sisters take it Read More

1972
The Jackie Gleason Show: Season 13

Actors: Jackie Gleason

1969
The Jackie Gleason Show: Season 12

Actors: Jackie Gleason

1968
The Jackie Gleason Show: Season 11

Actors: Jackie Gleason

1967
A Guide for the Married Man

Actors: Walter Matthau, Robert Morse, Inger Stevens, Sue Ane Langdon, Claire Kelly

Synopsis: Ed Stander (Robert Morse), with the help of an all-star cast, teaches Paul Manning (Walter Matthau) the fine art of philandering in A Guide for the Married Man. Paul, happily married to sexy Ruth (Inger Stevens), has no burning desire to cheat, but Ed makes the prospect sound very attractive. Read More

1967
The Jackie Gleason Show: Season 10

Actors: Jackie Gleason

1966
The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Actors: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, Shirley MacLaine, Moira Lister, George C. Scott, Isa Miranda, Ingrid Bergman

Synopsis: In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their possession of an unusual car, a yellow Rolls Royce Phantom II. Lord Frinton (Rex Harrison) is a diplomat who purchases the exquisite auto as a gift for his wife (Jeanne Read More

1964
The Twilight Zone: Night of the Meek

Actors: Art Carney, John Fiedler, Burt Mustin, Robert Lieb, Meg Wylie

Synopsis: Twilight Zone's Yuletide offering for the 1960-61 season was this videotaped episode. Art Carney stars as Henry Corwin, a philosophical, booze-guzzling department store Santa Claus. Dismissed from his job, the disgruntled Corwin stumbles across a strange-looking bag, one that profoundly changes Read More

1960
Star Gazing

Synopsis: This video contains a star-studded broadcast of the 1959 Emmy Awards Ceremony. It also contains a lively comedy short from 1931. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Safety for the Witness

Synopsis: Art Carney guest stars as Cyril T. Jones, a timid gunsmith who is caught in the crossfire of a gangland killing. Though his wound is minor, Cyril is afraid to leave the hospital for fear he has been targeted for death because he witnessed the earlier "hit." Finally, Cyril hits upon a brilliant Read More

1958
The Last Leaf

Synopsis: The Last Leaf borrows the title of an O. Henry yarn, but it's actually an original for television, written by Ross Claiborn and Frances Banks. Evelyn Varden stars as a "steel magnolia" Southern matriarch who decides to hold her own funeral while she's still alive and very much present. If her Read More

1957
The Honeymooners: Ralph Kramden's Greatest Schemes

Synopsis: Here's Jackie Gleason at his finest as he plays the hilarious Ralph Kramden, the wacky and beloved bus driver. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1957
Playhouse 90: Charley's Aunt

Actors: Art Carney, Jeanette MacDonald, Tom Tryon, Orson Bean, Jackie Coogan

Synopsis: Art Carney plays the title role, so to speak, in this live, 90-minute Playhouse 90 adaptation of Brandon Thomas' classic stage farce Charley's Aunt. The play's basic premise--Oxford undergrad Lord Fancourt Babberly (Carney) must pose as the elderly aunt of his roommate Charley Wyckeham so that Read More

1957
Playhouse 90: The Fabulous Irishman

Actors: Art Carney, Katherine Bard, Michael Higgins, Charles Davis, Eli Mintz

Synopsis: In his second Playhouse 90 appearance of the 1956-57 season, Art Crney stars as Robert Briscoe, the colorful, controversial Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland. Although of Jewish parentage, Briscoe was "accepted" as a Hibernian through and through on the strength of his fearless patriotism during the Read More

1957
The Jackie Gleason Show: Season 04

Actors: Jackie Gleason

1956
The Honeymooners [TV Series]

Synopsis: Although he tried very hard to become a movie star as well as create and produce television entertainment that was a lot flashier, like it or not, The Honeymooners ended up being the single creation for which Jackie Gleason was best known. One irony surrounding its recognition over the decades was Read More

1955