Chuck McCannFilmography

Born:: September 2, 1936 in Queens Village, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter
Biography:: The son of musical arranger Val McCann, rotund American comic actor Chuck McCann began working up laugh-getting routines while attending high school. A nightclub performer at 17, McCann made regular, well-received appearances on Steve Allen's various network programs even before he was twenty....Read More

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The Aristocrats

Synopsis: "A family walks into a talent agent's office..." So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke kept mostly secret by stand-up comedians for decades. An intentionally "bad" joke, the laughs in The Aristocrats aren't in the punch-line (one of the only elements that's the same every time), but in the set-up Read More

7/29/05
Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Peter MacNicol, Steven Weber, Amy Yasbeck, Lysette Anthony

Synopsis: Mel Brooks does it again with this send-up of vampire films. That Leslie Nielson plays the great blood-sucking count gives viewers a good idea as to what they are in for. This Dracula takes himself very seriously despite the fact that he's a bit of a klutz with a tendency to slip in the bat guano Read More

1995
Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery

1994
Robin Hood: Men in Tights

Actors: Cary Elwes, Richard Lewis, Roger Rees, Amy Yasbeck, Tracey Ullman, Dave Chappelle

Synopsis: Mel Brooks directed and co-wrote this satiric comedy which lampoons a number of cinematic treatments of the legend of Sherwood Forest, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Adventures of Robin Hood. Robin Hood (Cary Elwes) comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble Read More

1993
Storyville

Actors: James Spader, Joanne Whalley, Jason Robards, Jr., Charlotte Lewis, Mike Warren, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: Mark Frost, the writer and director best known for his work with David Lynch on the TV series Twin Peaks, made his feature film directorial debut with this convoluted thriller. Cray Fowler (James Spader) is running for congress, partly to satisfy his own political aspirations and partly to resolve Read More

8/26/92
Ladybugs

Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Jackée, Jonathan Brandis, Ilene Graff, Vinessa Shaw

Synopsis: Rodney Dangerfield plays it cute in this comedy directed by veteran director Sidney J. Furie. Dangerfield plays Chester Lee, a man so anxious for a promotion that he agrees to coach a girl's soccer team his company is sponsoring. If the team has a winning season, Chester will get his promotion. Read More

3/27/92
DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp

Actors: Alan Young, Russie Taylor, Rip Taylor, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: Based on the popular Disney animated afternoon television adventure series, which was in turn based on such supporting characters from earlier Donald Duck films and comic books as Scrooge McDuck and Donald's mischievous nephews Huey, Duey and Louie, this adventure chronicles the attempts of the Read More

8/3/90
Guns

Actors: Erik Estrada, Dona Speir, Roberta Vasquez, Bruce Penhall, Cynthia Brimhall

Synopsis: Erik Estrada stars as an arms dealer, smuggling weapons from China to South America, who's being pursued by a pair of sexy female secret agents. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Likely Stories, Vol. 3

Synopsis: This made-for-cable series features comedy performers starring in various skits and satires. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
That's Adequate

Actors: Tony Randall, James Coco, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Ina Balin

Synopsis: Fans of movie industry satire will want to see That's Adequate, an all-star production which spoofs the popular series of documentary films honoring MGM's musical comedies, That's Entertainment. Narrated by Tony Randall, this mock-history chronicles the film output of the second-rate "Adequate Read More

1989
Cameron's Closet

Actors: Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis, Chuck McCann, Leigh McCloskey

Synopsis: Director Armand Mastroianni's last horror feature before building a more solid reputation as a director of TV movies and series, Cameron's Closet tells the tale of a bright young boy with innate telekinetic powers whose gifts were exploited by his father (Tab Hunter) in a series of controlled Read More

1989
Thrashin'

Actors: Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, Pam Gidley, Brooke McCarter, Jr., Brett Marx

Synopsis: Valley boys take on the punk rockers in this teen-age adventure. This time they use skateboards instead of zip guns, knives and fists. The rich Valley kids, "The Ramp Locals," are led by Corey Webster, while the leather-clad, street-wise punks follow Tommy Hook. The trouble begins when Corey falls Read More

8/22/86
Hamburger... The Motion Picture

Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Dick Butkus, Randi Brooks, Chuck McCann, Jack Blessing

Synopsis: In addition to sexual encounters and nudity, toilet humor is on a roll in this story about some teens trying to finish a 12-week course in fast-food service -- yes, 12 weeks to study how to make and sell a hamburger. As their final exam, the teens have to run a burger place. ~ Eleanor Mannikka Read More

1986
The Rosebud Beach Hotel

Actors: Colleen Camp, Peter Scolari, Christopher Lee, Fran Drescher, Monique Gabrielle

Synopsis: In a thinly-plotted story about redeeming a failing hotel by turning it into an optional brothel (depending on the guest), Peter Scolari stars as Elliot, the young man who has to succeed at this hotel business in order to garner the favor of Clifford, his prospective father-in-law (Christopher Read More

1984
Carpool

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, T.K. Carter, Stephanie Faracy, Harvey Korman, Peter Scolari

Synopsis: This made-for-TV comedy postulates that, someday, members of carpools will be selected by computer. The four so anointed herein are Harvey Korman, Peter Scolari, T.K. Carter and Stephanie Faracy. Their lives go along in their usual luckless fashion until the quarter of mismatched "poolers" find Read More

1983
The Comeback Trail

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Chuck McCann, Robert Staats, Ina Balin, Jara Kahout

Synopsis: In this comedy a producer of "B" movies makes a film featuring a has-been cowboy star in the hopes that he can bring back his failing studio. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Mae West

Actors: Ann Jillian, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Ann Jillian plays the title character in this made-for-TV film, based on the facts but with several liberties taken as well. Roddy McDowall takes an interesting turn playing a female impersonator. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Lunch Wagon

Actors: Pamela Jean Bryant, Rosanne Katon, Candy Moore, Rick Podell

Synopsis: A trio of unemployed beauties inherit a lunch wagon, only to run afoul of bank robbers in this sex comedy also known as Lunch Wagon Girls and Come 'N' Get It. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
C.H.O.M.P.S.

Actors: Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Chuck McCann, Red Buttons

Synopsis: Brian Foster (Wesley Eure) is a young inventor who creates a mechanical dog as part of a home protection system. When he falls out of favor with his boss Ralph Norton (Conrad Bain), the boss' pretty daughter Casey (Valerie Bertinelli) uses her pull to save the company and Brian's job. Mr. Gibbs (Jim Backus Read More

1979
If Things Were Different

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Tony Roberts, Arte Johnson, Chuck McCann, Dan Shor

Synopsis: In this drama, a suburban housewife shows great inner strength when she must suddenly keep the family together after her husband suffers a complete breakdown and falls into an irreversible catatonic state. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
They Went That-A-Way and That-A-Way

Actors: Tim Conway, Chuck McCann, Richard Kiel, Dub Taylor, Reni Santoni

Synopsis: In this broad, occasionally slapstick comedy, Dewey and Wallace (Tim Conway and Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are trying to find out where some thieves have hidden their money. With the help of the governor of their state, they are able to enter the prison where the thieves are Read More

1978
Foul Play

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Eugene Roche

Synopsis: As he did in his screenplay for Silver Streak (1974), writer/director Colin Higgins mixes life-and-death melodrama with broad slapstick in Foul Play. Goldie Hawn stars as Gloria Mundy, a recent divorcée whose attempts to start life anew in San Francisco are bollixed up when she is inadvertently Read More

1978
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown

Crew: Editor

Actors: Greg Felton, Stuart Brotman

Synopsis: This feature-length animated cartoon was based on the "Peanuts" characters created by comic-strip artist Charles M. Schultz. The gang is shipped off to summer camp, where Charlie Brown gets a "Go away and leave me alone" bunkmate, and where CB's beagle Snoopy ends up winning most of the athletic Read More

1977
Sex and the Married Woman

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Sex and the Married Woman stars Joanna Pettet as a housewife and Barry Newman as her liberal-minded husband. Encouraging his wife to find her "inner self," Newman has no notion that Pettet will translate this invitation into writing a book based on the sex habits of her friends and neighbors. The Read More

1977
The Rockford Files: Requiem for a Funny Box

Synopsis: This episode is something of an amalgam of the Martin-and-Lewis legend and the much-later TV series The Sopranos). Jim (James Garner) is hired to protect over-the-hill comedian Kenny Bell (Chuck McCann) from his mean-spirited former partner Lee Russo (Robert Quarry), only to find himself Read More

1977
Survival

Synopsis: In this psychodrama, a group of people hold a dinner party. Over dinner each guest discusss the reasons why he or she should be allowed to keep on living. Later the happy party-goers must vote on which two of them get to survive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Silent Movie

Actors: Mel Brooks, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise, Bernadette Peters, Sid Caesar

Synopsis: Silent Movie is just that: a totally nonverbal comedy, save for one single line. Director Mel Brooks stars as a once-famous comedy director, who with his faithful assistants Dom DeLuise and Marty Feldman return to Hollywood with plans for a comeback. Brooks wants to return to the good old days by Read More

1976
How to Break up a Happy Divorce

Synopsis: Housewife Barbara Eden loses her husband Peter Bonerz to seductive Liberty Williams. After the divorce, Eden becomes incensed that Williams is flaunting her victory. To get even, Eden begins dating notorious playboy Hal Linden. Now it's Bonerz' turn to suffer the pangs of jealousy. Made for Read More

1976
A Cry for Help

Synopsis: A Cry for Help (working title: End of the Line) stars Robert Culp as an acerbic, Don Imus-like radio talk show host. When one of his callers, an anxious young woman, threatens to kill herself, Culp laughs it off. Later, however, he realizes that the girl wasn't kidding, and mounts a frantic Read More

1975
Far Out Space Nuts [TV Series]

1975
Far Out Space Nuts: Pilot

Synopsis: When a NASA spaceship is inadvertently launched, two crewman are taken for the ride of their lives. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Little House on the Prairie: The Voice of Tinker Jones

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Karl Swenson

Synopsis: Chuck McCann guest stars as Tinker Jones, a mute, itinerant coppersmith. When he wanders into Walnut Grove, Tinker also finds himself in the middle of a community tiff over purchasing a bell for the church. Haughty Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor) offers to purchase the bell, but only if it is Read More

1974
Kojak: Eighteen Hours of Fear

Synopsis: The terror begins when dewey-eyed Peggy O'Malley (Lynne Marta) enters the United States after a flight from Canada, her leg encased in a plaster cast. But Peggy has not broken or even sprained anything: she is using the phony cast to smuggle a 20-dollar plate, stolen from the Canadian mint, past Read More

1974
Herbie Rides Again

Actors: Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers, John McIntire, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Herbie Rides Again is the first sequel to Disney's fabulously successful The Love Bug. The emphasis here is on Mrs. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), a feisty old San Franciscan who refuses to sell her home to conniving developer Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn). Hawk's nephew, lawyer Willoughby Whitfield (Ken Berry Read More

1974
The Bob Newhart Show: Let's Get Away From It Almost

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: A three-day vacation at a sparsely populated skiing resort turns into hell on earth for Bob and Emily. Not only are they stuck with the company of an obnoxious couple in the next room (all four vacationers share a single bathroom), but the Hartleys end up snowed in when they try to escape back to Read More

1973
The Girl Most Likely To...

Actors: Stockard Channing, Ed Asner

Synopsis: This TV movie stars Stockard Channing as an "ugly duckling" who is dumped on by everyone with whom she comes in contact. After her heart is broken by a callous campus jock, Stockard tearfully speeds off in her car and is involved in a serious accident. Plastic surgery is required, and when Ms. Read More

1973
Play It As It Lays

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins

Synopsis: Play It As It Lays offers what is probably the harshest view of Hollywood to be given a major production up to the time of its release; it depicts a world of narcissistic egotists who will do anything to inflate their own sense of importance. Based on the novel by Joan Didion, it tells of the rise Read More

1972
Bonanza: The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Written and directed by Bonanza star Michael Landon, "The Younger Brothers' Younger Brother" is one of the series' zaniest episodes. It all begins when Hoss Cartwright is mistaken for one of the notorious Younger Brothers, who have recently resumed their criminal activities after a 12-year prison Read More

1972
Jennifer on My Mind

Actors: Michael Brandon, Tippy Walker, Lou Gilbert, Steve Vinovich, Peter Bonerz

Synopsis: One of a number of films that dealt with addiction following the explosion of recreational drug use in the 1960s, Jennifer on My Mind opens as footloose twentysomething Marcus (Michael Brandon) is wandering through Europe. In Venice, he meets a beautiful young woman named Jenny (Tippy Walker); Read More

1971
The World of Hans Christian Andersen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The animated feature The World of Hans Christian Andersen is a product of Japan's busy Toei cartoon studios (it was originally released as Hansu Kurishitan Anderusan No Sekai). Two classic Andersen tales, "The Little Match Girl" and "The Red Shoes," are linked with the framing story of young Hans Read More

1971
The Projectionist

Actors: Chuck McCann, Ina Balin, Rodney Dangerfield, Jara Kohout, Harry Hurwitz

Synopsis: This offbeat comedy finds a rotund, daydreaming projectionist (Chuck McCann) who fantasizes that he is the super hero Captain Flash. He imagines his nemesis to be Renaldi (Rodney Dangerfield), whom the projectionist refers to as "the Bat." Renaldi demands the lobby floor to be so clean he can eat Read More

1970
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Actors: Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Laurinda Barrett, Stacy Keach, Chuck McCann

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter stars Alan Arkin as John Singer, who is deaf. Singer moves from a small town in order to be close to his institutionalized friend Antonapoulos (Chuck McCann), who is deaf and mentally impaired. Singer rents a room with a family Read More

1968
Carson and Cavett

Synopsis: A "Blast From the Past" of comedy featuring Dick Cavett and Johnny Carson. From 1953 Johnny plays "Aunt Blabby" and shows how to stuff a turkey and from 1967, Cavett interviews Harrison and McCann. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

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