Carole Shelley Filmography

Born:: August 16, 1939 in London, England, UK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: An actress since childhood, London native Carole Shelley made her professional bow as Little Nell in a 1950 dramatization of Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop. While attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Shelley supported herself as a milliner. She made her London debut in the 1955...Read More

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Bewitched

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Jason Schwartzman

Synopsis: Nora Ephron directed and co-wrote this updated adaptation of a classic situation comedy that also casts a satirical eye on the entertainment industry. Jack Wyatt (Will Ferrell) is a movie star whose career has been going into a slow and steady decline. Desperate for a project that will give his Read More

6/24/05
Frasier: Merry Christmas, Mrs. Moskowitz

Synopsis: The Christmas season affords Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) yet another opportunity to advance his love life -- or bollix it up. It all starts when Frasier is rescued from an embarrassing shopping blunder by a certain Mrs. Helen Moskowitz (Carole Shelley). This leads to a deepening relationship between Read More

1998
Hercules

Actors: Tate Donovan, Josh Keaton, Roger Bart, Danny DeVito, James Woods

Synopsis: Disney's animation team dipped into the rich well of ancient mythology for this musical comedy. The son of Greek gods Zeus (voice of Rip Torn) and Hera (Samantha Eggar), Hercules (voice of Josh Keaton) is stolen as a boy by the minions of Hades (voice of James Woods), lord of the underworld. Read More

1997
Jungle 2 Jungle

Actors: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington

Synopsis: A man finds the son he never knew he had, and a boy discovers a city he never knew existed, in this comedy. Michael Cromwell (Tim Allen) is a commodities broker who deals in coffee beans; while on a trip to Brazil, Michael is abandoned by his wife, Patricia (JoBeth Williams), an anthropologist who Read More

1997
Quiz Show

Actors: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer

Synopsis: It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a phenomenal memory and a broad range of knowledge. He's also a pudgy loudmouth with a grating personality, so Herbert is encouraged to "take a dive" and allow Charles Read More

1994
The Road to Wellville

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, Dana Carvey

Synopsis: This adaptation of the comic novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle is the story of real-life Corn Flakes inventor Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins), an eccentric health nut in the early 20th century. Convinced of the benefits of holistic health practices (mostly involving irrigation of the bowels Read More

1994
Devlin

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable-TV crime drama, New York detective Devlin must prove that he is innocent of killing his brother-in-law, a mayoral candidate. It is not easy for the unhappily married, alcoholic gumshoe because he suspects that the man trying to frame him is his arch nemesis, his corrupt Read More

1992
The Super

Actors: Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Rubén Blades, Stacey Travis

Synopsis: Joe Pesci stars as Louie Kritski, a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option, which he accepts -- he must live in his rat-infested hell hole until he brings it up to liveable standards. Read More

10/4/91
Little Noises

Actors: Crispin Glover, Steven Schub, Tatum O'Neal, Rik Mayall

Synopsis: Joey (Crispin Glover) thinks he's a writer, even though he's never written (or published) anything. He has advertised this "fact" to everyone he knows, but particularly to himself. He has an acquaintance, Marty (Matthew Hutton), who is mute but who writes like a dream. Of course, people try to Read More

1991
The Cosby Show: If the Dress Fits, Wear It

Synopsis: Clair (Phylicia Rashad) hopes to lose several pounds within a handful of days in order to fit into a fancy dress for an upcoming benefit. Thus, she submits herself to the merciless regimen of aerobics instructor Emma Neuhausen--played by dancer-choreographer Debbie Allen, the real-life sister of Read More

1988
The Whoopee Boys

Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez, Denholm Elliott, Carole Shelley, Marsha Warfield, Andy Bumatai

Synopsis: In this comedy, a relocation to Florida throws lowlife New Yorkers Barney (Paul Rodriguez) and Jake (Michael O'Keefe) into a dilemma when Jake falls for a beautiful schoolteacher, Olivia Farragut (Lucinda Jenney), who is struggling to find enough money to keep her school open. However, when they Read More

8/15/86
Robin Hood

Actors: Andy Devine, Peter Ustinov

Synopsis: Robin Hood is one of the first animated films produced by the Walt Disney Company after Walt Disney's death in 1967. For the film, the studio's animators took the Disney tradition of adding human-like animal sidekicks to established tales (Cinderella, Pinnochio) a step further by making Robin Read More

1973
The Aristocats

Actors: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: The Aristocats was the first Disney Studios animated feature to be produced after Walt Disney's death. A wealthy woman leaves her vast fortune to her four cats: the well-bred Duchess and her kittens, Berlioz, Toulouse, and Marie. Jealous butler Edgar, eager to get his mitts on the cats' legacy Read More

1970
Some Kind of a Nut

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson, Rosemary Forsyth, Zohra Lampert, Elliott Reid

Synopsis: In this satirical comedy, Fred Amidon (Dick Van Dyke) is a Fifth Avenue bank teller waiting for his divorce to be finalized to end his marriage to Rachel (Angie Dickinson). He and fellow employee Pamela (Rosemary Forsyth) plan to marry once the ink dries on the decree. A Central Park picnic with Read More

1969
The Boston Strangler

Actors: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis: The Boston Strangler adopts the split-screen technique then in vogue (see also The Thomas Crown Affair) to relate the true story of self-confessed mass murderer Albert DeSalvo. Adapted by Edward Anhalt from the book by Gerold Frank, the film covers the years 1962 to 1964, during which time a dozen Read More

1968
The Odd Couple

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, John Fiedler, Herb Edelman, David Sheiner

Synopsis: Compulsive neatnik Felix Unger (Jack Lemmon) is thrown out of his house by his divorce-bound wife. He wanders aimlessly through the streets of New York, toying with the idea of suicide, before gravitating to the apartment of his best friend, incorrigibly sloppy sportswriter Oscar Madison (Walter Matthau Read More

1968
Carry On Cabby

Actors: Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Esma Cannon

Synopsis: The seventh film in the long-running "Carry On" series (24 more were to follow), this chapter features Sidney James as Charlie, owner of the Speedee Cab Company. Business has been good for Charlie, so good that it's been a source of great aggravation for his wife Peggy (Hattie Jacques), who Read More

1963
No, My Darling Daughter

Actors: Michael Redgrave, Michael Craig, Roger Livesey, Rad Fulton, Juliet Mills

Synopsis: In this comedy, the daughter of a British aristocrat is sent to Parisian finishing school where she falls in love with a charming American student, and discovers that his father is a business associate of her own. Paternal trouble ensues when her young man forgets to deliver an important letter to Read More

1961
Carry on Regardless

Actors: Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenny Williams

Synopsis: The "Carry On" gang take on employment agencies in this labored edition to the long-running comedy series. Sidney James is Bert Handy, who starts an employment agency by the name of "Helping Hands, Ltd." Bert proceeds to hire a bunch of loonies to do a collection of screwball jobs employers want Read More

1961
Avengers: Kill The King

Synopsis: In London to close an oil deal, middle-eastern potentate King Tenuphon (played by Burt Kwouk of "Pink Panther" fame) is targetted for assassination. Assigned to protect Tenuphon, Steed suspects that the would-be killers are sequestered in a seedy suburban London flat. The climax involves a Read More

1961
It's Great to Be Young

Actors: John Mills, Cecil Parker, John Salew, Elizabeth Kentish, Mona Washbourne, Carole Shelley

Synopsis: It's Great to Be Young stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not Read More

1956