Charlotte Rae Filmography

Born:: April 22, 1926 in Milwaukee, WI
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Even as a teenaged performer with the Shorewood Players, a Milwaukee community-theatre group, Charlotte Rae thrived in playing characters much older than herself. Example: at 16, Charlotte starred as Dolly Gallegher Levi in a Shorewood production of Thornton Wilder's The Merchant of Yonkers (her...Read More

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You Don't Mess With the Zohan

Actors: Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Nick Swardson, Lainie Kazan

Synopsis: Judd Apatow teams up with his former roommate Adam Sandler to write a star comedy vehicle for the actor in You Don't Mess With the Zohan, the tale of an Israeli commando who fakes his own death so he can follow his dream -- to be a hairstylist in New York City. I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Read More

6/6/08
Thomas Kinkade's The Christmas Cottage

Actors: Jared Padalecki, Peter O'Toole, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home. Michael Campus directs a film written by Ken Read More

11/30/07
The Facts of Life Reunion

2001
Tom and Jerry: The Movie

Actors: Richard Kind, Dana Hill, Anndi McAfee, Charlotte Rae, Tony Jay

Synopsis: The popular animated duo of cat and mouse team up again to appear this time on the big screen. Homeless, the 'toons end up helping out a young girl who stays with a nasty auntie while she is separated from her father. Will the young Robyn be reunited with her loving father? Will the odd pair make Read More

1993
Save the Dog!

Synopsis: In this Disney comedy, an unemployed, destitute actress tries to save her dog after it eats too much junk food during a shoot for a dog-food commercial. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Murder, She Wrote: Doom with a View

Synopsis: Once again, the life of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is complicated by the misadventures of her nephew Grady (Michael Horton). This time, Grady's fraternity brother Gary (John Callahan) insists upon inviting Jessica to enjoy the hospitality of an expensive hotel owned by Gary's much-older Read More

1987
Great Bible Stories: Noah's Ark

Synopsis: In this animated children's feature, the beloved Bible stories of "Noah's Ark" and "Joshua and the Battle of Jericho" are told. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
The Worst Witch

Actors: Fairuza Balk, Charlotte Rae, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Jill Murphy's children's story The Worst Witch is given satisfactory treatment in this amiable film fantasy. The scene is a school for witches, where the head sorceresses offer a liberal black-arts curriculum. Problems occur when one of the students turns out to be too good for her own good. And Read More

1986
Words by Heart

Actors: Robert Hooks, Charlotte Rae, Alfre Woodard

Synopsis: Words by Heart is set in a northern farming town in 1910. The town's only black family, recently arrived from the south, is treated with barely concealed contempt by the white farmers--and with outright hostility when the family's daughter (Fran Robinson) wins a Bible-verse contest. The only white Read More

1984
The Facts of Life Goes to Paris

Actors: Mindy Cohn, Kim Fields, Nancy McKeon, Lisa Whelchel

Synopsis: All the regular cast members of the once-popular sitcom The Facts of Life are on hand for this made-for-TV movie spin-off. Charlotte Rae stars as Edna Garrett, housemother for the girls of the preppy Eastland School for Young Women. Her four principal charges are Blair (Lisa Whelchel), Jo (Nancy McKeon Read More

1982
The Facts of Life [TV Series]

Actors: Charlotte Rae, Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn, Kim Fields, Nancy McKeon

1979
Hair

Actors: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Nicholas Ray, Annie Golden

Synopsis: Milos Forman's adaptation of the tribal rock musical Hair stars John Savage as Claude, a quiet young man from the Midwest who becomes friendly with a group of New York hippies on his way to begin basic training in the military. The repressed Claude is quite taken with Berger (Treat Williams) and Read More

1979
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama tells of an actual event in 1911 where 145 workers in the Triangle garment factory were killed in a huge industrial fire. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
A Different Approach

1978
Diff'rent Strokes: Season 01

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Charlotte Rae, Dana Plato

1978
Rabbit Test

Actors: Billy Crystal, Joan Prather, Alex Rocco, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: In this, Joan Rivers' first attempt at film direction, a young virgin male (Billy Crystal) is engaged to be married when he finds out he is pregnant! Using the film as a vehicle for her acerbic humor, director Rivers may as well be on stage, for interspersed throughout this questionable plot is an Read More

1978
Our Town

Actors: Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Sada Thompson, John Houseman, Hal Holbrook, Glynnis O'Connor, Robby Benson, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: This videotaped version of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winning play Our Town stars Hal Holbrook as the Stage Manager. Acting as narrator and assuming several different interlocutory roles throughout the production, Holbrook shows us life in Grovers Corners, New Hampshire, in the first few years of Read More

1977
Sidewinder One

Actors: Marjoe Gortner, Michael Parks, Susan Howard, Alex Cord, Charlotte Rae

Synopsis: In this action film, motorcross racer J. W. Wyatt (Michael Parks) works to develop a high-performance motorcycle while pursuing a romance with the wealthy Chris Gentry (Susan Howard). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

Actors: Maureen Stapleton, Charles Durning, Michael Brandon

Synopsis: Queen of the Stardust Ballroom stars Maureen Stapleton as Bea Asher, a woman faced with many new challenges since becoming a widow. She has been afraid for herself and her future since her husband's death, and friends concerned for her well-being take her to the Stardust Ballroom in the hopes Read More

1975
Hot L Baltimore [TV Series]

Actors: James Cromwell, Richard Masur, Conchata Ferrell, Alan Freeman, Jeannie Linero, Gloria Le Roy, Robin Wilson, Stanley Gottlieb, Lee Bergere, Henry Calvert, Charlotte Rae

1975
Good Times: Florida's Big Gig

Synopsis: Unemployed for months, James (John Amos) is on the verge of a sure thing when he applies for a job at a department store. As a gesture to good luck, James allows his wife, Florida (Esther Rolle), to accompany him to the job interview. Unfortunately for James' already battered and bruised ego, the Read More

1974
All in the Family: Where's Archie?

Actors: Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Charlotte Rae, Hector Elias

Synopsis: This first episode of a three-part story arc finds Edith preparing for a Tupperware party while Archie is away attending a lodge convention in Buffalo. The tranquil mood in the Bunker household is shattered when Archie fails to call Edith as he promised, leading Edith, Mike, and Gloria to worry Read More

1974
The Partridge Family: You're Only Young Twice

Synopsis: Concerned by Danny's disruptive classroom behavior, Shirley (Shirley Jones) consults psychologist Dr. Beecher (Charlotte Rae), who suggests that Danny (Danny Bonaduce) is frustrated because he feels like a powerless child. At Beecher's suggestion, Shirley temporarily allows Danny to indulge his Read More

1972
The Hot Rock

Actors: Lynne Gordon, Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Zero Mostel

Synopsis: Peter Yates directs the early '70s comedy caper The Hot Rock, based on the Donald Westlake novel and adapted for the screen by William Goldman. Robert Redford stars as John Archibald Dortmunder, a former jewel thief just released from prison. His brother-in-law, Andrew Kelp (George Segal) Read More

1972
Bananas

Actors: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban, Natividad Abascal, Jacobo Morales

Synopsis: One of Woody Allen's earlier, more slapstick-oriented efforts, Bananas tells the story of Fielding Mellish (Allen), a neurotic New Yorker who follows the object of his affections, Nancy (Louise Lasser), to the fictional Central American country of San Marcos, where she is involved in a revolution. Read More

1971
Jenny

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda, Marian Hailey, Elizabeth Wilson, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: Jenny (Marlo Thomas) is a single expectant mother who receives an offer of marriage from Delano (Alan Alda). He wants to avoid the military draft and agrees to marry Jenny despite the fact he is not the child's father, proposing for strictly practical reasons: the baby will have a name and he will Read More

1969
Hello Down There

Actors: Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Roddy McDowall, Jim Backus, Ken Berry

Synopsis: When irascible boss T.R. Hollister (Jim Backus) threatens to pull the plug on an underwater environmental living project, employee Fred Miller (Tony Randall) and his wife, Vivian (Janet Leigh), take their family down in the deep to live for 30 days. With all the modern conveniences of a home on Read More

1969
The Journey of the Fifth Horse

Synopsis: In 1966, a year before he rose to overnight fame in The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman won an Obie Award for his performance in Journey of the Fifth Horse, a stage adaptation by Ronald Ribman of the story Diary of a Superfluous Man by Ivan Turgenev. The play was videotaped for public television that Read More

1966
Car 54, Where Are You? [TV Series]

1961
In Fashion

Synopsis: Based on a bedroom farce by George Feydeau, In Fashion is a musical centered on mistaken identity and marital infidelity that features a cast that includes Max Wright (from TV's ALF) and The Facts of Life's Charlotte Rae. This presentation documents a performance given before an audience of Read More