Barbara HarrisFilmography

Born:: July 25, 1935 in Evanston, IL
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Sandra Markowitz
Biography:: Goodman graduate Barbara Harris was among the earliest members of Chicago's Second City improvisational troupe. Harris' "everybody's best friend" demeanor, her good looks and offbeat sense of humor assured her steady work both off and on Broadway. In 1967 she won a Tony Award for her work in the...Read More

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Grosse Pointe Blank

Actors: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Alan Arkin, Joan Cusack

Synopsis: Most people have trouble deciding what to say when they're asked what they've been doing with their lives at a High School reunion, but Martin Blank (as played by John Cusack) has a different problem than most -- he has to make his career sound less interesting than it actually is. Martin Read More

1997
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Actors: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris

Synopsis: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a remake of the 1964 film farce Bedtime Story. Steve Martin and Michael Caine take over the roles originally played by Marlon Brando and David Niven: two international con artists, plying their trade on gullible wealthy women up and down the Riviera. Martin and Caine vie Read More

12/14/88
Everybody's All-American

Actors: Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid, Timothy Hutton, John Goodman, Ray Baker, Carl Lumbly

Synopsis: Everybody's All American covers 25 years in the life of college football hero Gavin Grey (Dennis Quaid). When he marries campus sweetheart Babs Rogers (Jessica Lange) and is picked up by the pros, a happily-ever-after denouement is predicted by friends and family. It is clear from the outset Read More

11/4/88
Casual Sex?

Actors: Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen, Jerry Levine, Andrew Dice Clay

Synopsis: In the late '80s, good-time girl Stacy (Lea Thompson) and her timid friend, Melissa (Victoria Jackson), decide to hit a health spa for singles in hopes of spicing up their unfulfilled sex lives. Afraid of AIDS, Stacy has gone celibate, while Melissa has only ever managed to get it on with two lame Read More

4/22/88
The Return of Ben Casey

Synopsis: In this hospital drama, based on the old TV series, brain surgeon extraordinaire, Ben Casey, finds that he is less than welcome when he tries to resume his practice at County Hospital after spending 25-years elsewhere. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Nice Girls Don't Explode

Actors: Barbara Harris, Michelle Meyrink, William O'Leary, Wallace Shawn, James Nardini

Synopsis: April (Michelle Meyrink) is a hot item who causes her boyfriends to spontaneously combust in the heat of passion in this low-budget comedy. Her childhood sweetheart Andy (William O'Leary) is the one who usually gets burned and doesn't believe the warning given by April's mom (Barbara Harris). The Read More

4/3/87
Nightstick

Actors: Bruce Fairbairn, Kerrie Keane, Robert Vaughn, John Vernon, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: A maverick Big Apple cop sets off on a deadly pursuit of his two murderous brothers after they bomb a series of banks. He must hurry, for they are threatening to explode more banks if they aren't paid a fortune in ransom. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Ghost of a Chance

Actors: Redd Foxx, Dick Van Dyke

Synopsis: Ghost of a Chance is a failed TV pilot starring Redd Foxx and Dick Van Dyke. Foxx is a piano player accidentally killed by hard-hearted narcotics officer Dick Van Dyke. Since he's died before his scheduled time, Foxx is sent back to earth, where he helps Van Dyke track down genuine criminals. Read More

1987
Peggy Sue Got Married

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Maureen O'Sullivan, Helen Hunt, Jim Carrey, John Carradine

Synopsis: During her 25th high school class reunion, middle-aged Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) tries to forget her marital problems with husband Charlie (Nicolas Cage) by renewing old friendships. Wondering if she made the right decisions in her life, Peggy Sue gets a chance to try again when, zapped into a Read More

10/8/86
Cooking Series [Video Series]

Synopsis: Volume 3 of this cooking instruction video comes with recipe cards and covers one specific food. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Night Magic

Actors: Nick Mancuso, Carole Laure, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Frank Augustyn

Synopsis: In this fantasy-drama-romance, forbidden love between an angel (Carole Laure) and a singer (Nick Mancuso) is set against the singer's attempts to resuscitate a fading theater. During the period of one night, the singer is visited by three different guardian angels out to help him succeed in Read More

1985
Second-Hand Hearts

Actors: Robert Blake, Barbara Harris, Sondra Blake, Bert Remsen, Shirley Stoler

Synopsis: After a string of box-office hits, including Coming Home and Being There, director Hal Ashby announced in 1979 that his next film would be a "personal" project called The Hamster of Happiness. Two years would pass before this effort would appear on screen, by which time it had been heavily Read More

1981
The Seduction of Joe Tynan

Actors: Alan Alda, Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis: Alan Alda wrote and starred in this tale about a big-time politician's struggles with his own morality and the corruption he finds surrounding him. He plays a U.S. Senator, Joe Tynan, who falls for a lovely lady attorney and has an affair that jeopardizes his marriage, and possibly, his career. Read More

1979
The North Avenue Irregulars

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Cloris Leachman, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: 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 patriarchal notions of his superiors by 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
Family Plot

Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the Read More

1976
Freaky Friday

Actors: Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: Prolific television director Gary Nelson made the Walt Disney live-action comedy Freaky Friday, based on the novel by Mary Rodgers. Barbara Harris stars as suburban housewife Ellen Andrews, the wife of Bill (John Astin) and the mother of Annabel (Jodie Foster) and Ben (Sparky Marcus). Ellen just Read More

1976
Nashville

Actors: Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious Read More

1975
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

Actors: Gabriel Dell, Will Geer, Joyce Van Patten, Anjanette Comer, Vincent Gardenia, Barbara Harris, Jackie Coogan

Synopsis: Detective movies and film-noir are parodied in this comedy that tells the story of a rookie detective who is hired via mail-order to find out who killed the milkman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Mixed Company

Actors: Bob G. Anthony, Darell L. Garretson, Stephen Honanie, Rodney Hundley, Ron McIlwain, Charles J. Samsill, Jina Tan

Synopsis: In this sentimental comedy, the coach of the struggling Phoenix Suns basketball team finds his already heavy load increased when his wife decides to adopt three more children, a Vietnamese, a black and a Native American. They already have three kids of their own. Now in addition to trying to Read More

1974
The War Between Men and Women

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Janya Brannt, Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards, Jr., Herb Edelman, Severn Darden

Synopsis: Loosely based on the life and work of cartoonist and essayist James Thurber, The War Between Men and Women stars Jack Lemmon as cartoonist Peter Wilson, who, while visiting an eye doctor for his failing vision, quite literally stumbles upon Terry Kozlenko (Barbara Harris), an attractive but Read More

1972
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?

Actors: Gabriel Dell, Barbara Harris, Jack Warden, Dustin Hoffman

Synopsis: Georgie Soloway (Dustin Hoffman) is an unbelievably successful composer of popular music. Just in the last year, he has written over 60 hit songs. That kind of output worries him, however. Now that he is getting to be middle-aged, he wonders if he will be able to keep the pace he has set. He also Read More

1971
Plaza Suite

Actors: Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant, Louise Sorel

Synopsis: It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while appearing in the "omnibus" plays of Neil Simon. Plaza Suite was the first film version of a Simon play to carry over the multiple-role device to the screen. Walter Matthau appears in all three one-act playlets comprising Plaza Read More

1971
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Robert Morse, Barbara Harris, Hugh Griffith, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy based on Arthur Kopit's Broadway play. Wealthy Madame Rosepettle (Rosalind Russell) and 25-year-old Jonathan (Robert Morse) arrive at the Port Royal Hotel on a tiny Caribbean Read More

1967
A Thousand Clowns

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Barbara Harris, Martin Balsam, Gene Saks, William Daniels

Synopsis: Jason Robards Jr. superbly re-creates his Broadway role in this 1965 film version of Herb Gardner's play. Robards plays Murray Burns, head writer of TV's popular Chuckles the Chipmunk show. Fed up with the rat race, Murray quits his job and retreats to his cluttered Manhattan apartment, where he Read More

1965
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Beta Delta Gamma

Synopsis: During a drinking contest, college fraternity members Alan (Burt Brinckerhoff) and Mark (Duke Howard) pass out cold. The duo's frat brothers decide to play a cruel prank on the snoozing Alan, making it appear that Mark has died and that Alan has killed him. The joke backfires when the panicky Alan Read More

1961
Great Campaigns of The Civil War, Vol. I (1861-1863)

Synopsis: Narrated by James Whitmore, this video offers an overview of the major campaigns of the American Civil War, covering the significant battles that preceded the Confederate high-water mark of Gettysburg. Battles that receive close attention include Manassas, second Manassas, and Antietam. Also Read More
Great Campaigns of The Civil War, Vol. II (1863-1865)

Synopsis: Narrated by James Whitmore, this video offers an overview of the major campaigns of the American Civil War, picking up the story at the convenient turning point of Gettysburg, the high-water mark of Confederate military designs. Included in the video are brief discussions of the battles of Read More