David Schwimmer Filmography

Born:: November 12, 1966 in Queens, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Director
Biography:: If one were to base one's judgment of David Schwimmer's talent on his low-key performance as the anxious, awkward but lovable paleontologist Ross on NBC's smash hit comedy Friends, one might never suspect that beneath the affable exterior lies a versatile, multi-talented actor and filmmaker....Read More

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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Actors: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter

Synopsis: Hopelessly stranded on the remote shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers hatch a plan to get back to Central Park that instead finds them soaking up sun in the picturesque plains of Africa. Madagascar may be a nice place to visit, but for the gang of animals who spent most of their lives in New Read More

11/7/08
Run, Fat Boy, Run

Crew: Director

Actors: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Matthew Fenton, Harish Patel

Synopsis: An overweight man leaves his fiancée on their wedding day, only to realize years later that she's the one and only woman of his dreams in a romantic comedy that reunites Big Nothing co-stars Simon Pegg and David Schwimmer, this time with Schimmer in the director's chair. It's not easy to win back Read More

3/28/08
Nothing But the Truth

Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga, Edie Falco, Alan Alda

Synopsis: Rod Lurie (The Contender) writes and directs this ripped from the headlines tale of a jailed journalist (Kate Beckinsale) that refuses to divulge her source in the case of an outed CIA agent. David Schwimmer plays her husband, with Matt Dillon, Verga Farmiga, Edie Falco and Alan Alda set to Read More

1/1/08
Big Nothing

Actors: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg, Alice Eve, Jon Polito, Natascha McElhone, Mimi Rogers

Synopsis: Director Jean-Baptiste Andrea's wicked, jet-black comic thriller Big Nothing stars Friends mainstay David Schwimmer as Charlie Wood, a onetime American professor now married to a policewoman, Penelope (Natascha McElhone) and living in Oregon. As the story opens, Charlie takes a job as a telephone Read More

2006
Duane Hopwood

Actors: David Schwimmer, Janeane Garofalo, Judah Friedlander, Susan Lynch

Synopsis: A sad sack has to come to term with his own demons after a long run of bad luck in this downbeat comedy drama from writer and director Matt Mulhern. Duane Hopwood (David Schwimmer) lives and works in Atlantic City, where he's a pit boss on the night shift at one of the city's resort hotels, and Read More

11/11/05
Madagascar

Actors: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen

Synopsis: A pack of not-so-wild animals experience some serious culture shock when they move from the Big Apple to the Mighty Jungle in this computer-animated comedy. Alex (voice of Ben Stiller) is a lion who enjoys a charmed life as one of the leading attractions at a zoo in New York City's Central Park. Read More

5/27/05
Friends: The One With the Birth Mother

Crew: Director

Actors: Anna Faris, Annie Parisse, Jim O'Heir, Jorge Luis Abreu, Carla Toutz

Synopsis: Anna Faris makes her first series appearance as Erica, the Ohio woman whose baby Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) hope to adopt. Alas, the first meeting between Erica and the Bings turns into a not-so-comic comedy of errors when she mistakes the couple for a doctor and a Read More

2004
Hotel

Actors: Max Beesley, Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek, Burt Reynolds

Synopsis: Following up on his innovative work Timecode, which featured four stories being told in real time simultaneously, Mike Figgis returns to a modified form of his technique in this film about the tourists, the prostitutes, the tour guides, a killer, and a film crew who frequent the Hungarian Palace Read More

7/25/03
Friends: Season 10

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: With the official announcement that the tenth season of Friends would be its last, the series' fans loyally rallied around each episode, ensuring that the program would go out in a blaze of ratings glory. There was also little doubt that the many romantic intrigues that had evolved during previous Read More

2003
Friends: The One With Phoebe's Birthday Dinner

Crew: Director

Actors: Christina Pickles, Monique Edwards, Brian Chenoweth, Dan Bucatinsky, Kevin Farrell

Synopsis: Phoebe's (Lisa Kudrow) plans for her elaborate birthday dinner hit a snag at the get-go when Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry), who have been forcibly separated in most of the previous episodes, have a major squabble over his newly revived smoking habit. Meanwhile, Ross (David Schwimmer Read More

2002
Friends: The One Where Joey Dates Rachel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: To practice his dating technique, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) takes Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) to dinner -- but this little game of "let's pretend" might turn into something real. Elsewhere, Ross (David Schwimmer) is given a chance to take over for the ailing teacher of a college honors class -- if only he Read More

2002
Friends: Season 09

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: With season eight of Friends concluding on a lively note as Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) gave birth to Ross' baby, season nine gets off to an equally lively start as Joey (Matt LeBlanc) "accidentally" proposes to Rachel, and Rachel "accidentally" accepts. This leaves Ross (David Schwimmer) out of the Read More

2002
Band of Brothers

Actors: Damian Lewis, Donnie Wahlberg, Ron Livingston, Matthew Settle, Rick Warden, Frank John Hughes, Scott Grimes, David Schwimmer

Synopsis: Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO, Band of Brothers is a ten-part miniseries based on the book Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose. The series dramatically re-creates the path of Easy Read More

2001
Friends: The One With the Truth About London

Crew: Director

Actors: Jane Sibbett, Cole Sprouse

Synopsis: As plans for the wedding of Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) grow apace, Joey prepares to be ordained via the Internet so that he can perform the ceremony. Things get sticky, however, when the whole, unvarnished truth about Monica and Chandler's first liaison back in London Read More

2001
Friends: Season 08

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: As expected, the eighth season of Friends picked up exactly where season seven left off -- that is, a few minutes after the wedding of Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Monica (Courteney Cox), with Joey (in a WWI uniform for his role in an upcoming movie) serving as best man. Also as expected, the Read More

2001
Friends: The One With the Red Sweater

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Friends co-star David Schwimmer (Ross) directed this episode, in which the father of Rachel's baby is finally identified -- or is he? Crucial to the plotline is a red sweater, left behind by the "mystery man." Joey (Matt LeBlanc) shows the sweater to Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), who, convinced that the Read More

2001
Friends: The One With the Stripper

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Chandler (Matthew Perry) is dismayed to learn that Monica's bachelorette party featured a male stripper. To make amends, Monica (Courteney Cox) hires a female stripper for Chandler's belated bachelor bash -- but this stripper turns out to be a somewhat different variety of "working girl." Read More

2001
Uprising

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Uprising is based on the true story of the Jewish Fighting Organization, a courageous band of youthful Polish guerrillas and freedom fighters who refused to knuckle under to the Nazis during World War II. Led by schoolteacher Mordechai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria), the organization comes into being as Read More

2001
Love & Sex

Actors: Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich, Ann Magnuson, Cheri Oteri

Synopsis: Jon Favreau and Famke Janssen star in this slick indie film about love, romance, and jealousy. Kate (Janssen) almost gets fired from her posh magazine job when she submits an overly graphic, overly personal article on oral sex. As she rewrites her piece, she reminisces on her past flames Read More

8/25/00
Friends: The One With Rachel's Assistant

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Cahill, Michael Kagan, Jean St. James, Cody Tucker, Eric Rutherford

Synopsis: Now an executive at her place of business, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) exercises the prerogative of hiring an assistant. Unfortunately for Ross (David Schwimmer), Rachel's new employee turns out to be a stud-muffin named Tag (Eddie Cahill). In other developments, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) has barely Read More

2000
Friends: Season 07

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: The twentysomething characters of Friends have all officially entered their thirties as the series itself enters its seventh season. Likewise "official," at long last, is the engagement of Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry), with Joey (Matt LeBlanc) agreeing to serve as best man Read More

2000
Friends: The One With Ross's Library Book

Crew: Director

Actors: Kristin Davis, Maggie Wheeler, Michael D. Roberts, Doug Budin, Sarah O'Hara

Synopsis: Ross (David Schwimmer) is honored to learn that his thesis has been put in the NYU library. But his happiness is soured when he finds out that the section in which the thesis is squirreled away has been adopted as a student "passion pit." Elsewhere, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) hadn't intended for his Read More

2000
Picking Up the Pieces

Actors: Woody Allen, David Schwimmer, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Cheech Marin, Kiefer Sutherland

Synopsis: A crime of passion unwittingly leads to a "miracle" in this satirical comedy. Tex (Woody Allen) is a butcher who is married to Candy (Sharon Stone), a former exotic dancer who has no skill or enthusiasm for fidelity. Unhappy with her extramarital affairs, Tex kills Candy while performing a "sawing Read More

2000
Friends: The One With All the Candy

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Cahill, Cole Sprouse, Steve Ireland, Jonathan T. Floyd, Amy Hill

Synopsis: Still harboring what she thinks is a harmless crush on her personal assistant Tag (Eddie Cahill), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) writes a capricious work evaluation for him -- which ends up being delivered to the human relations department. In other developments, the friends make Phoebe's dream come Read More

2000
Friends: The One on the Last Night

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) have an emotional time moving out of their respective apartments. Though Chandler is looking forward to moving in with Monica, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) will be left without a roommate. Similarly, Monica is a bit let down that her former roomie Rachel (Jennifer Aniston Read More

1999
It's The Rage

Actors: Joan Allen, Andre Braugher, Josh Brolin, Jeff Daniels, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Director James D. Stern debuts with this darkly comedic, archly ironic look at America's obsession with guns. The film opens with Helen and Warren Harding (Joan Allen and Jeff Daniels) awaking one night to the sounds of their suburban trophy getting broken into. Warren grabs his trusty handgun and Read More

1999
Since You've Been Gone

Crew: Director

Actors: Lara Flynn Boyle, Teri Hatcher, David Schwimmer, Joey Slotnick, Philip Rayburn Smith, Joy Gregory

Synopsis: A disparate posse of friends reconvenes in a suburb of Chicago for a high-school reunion in this ensemble comedy. Ten years after getting beaten up on graduation day by a classmate (Tom Hodges), Dr. Kevin MacEldowney (Philip Rayburn Smith) dreads his class reunion. On hand to bolster his sense of Read More

1999
Friends: Season 06

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: As Friends enters its sixth season, Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) are husband and wife -- the end result of a drunken spree in Las Vegas. It doesn't take long for the couple to realize that their impulsive marriage was a mistake, however, and soon they're divorced. This Read More

1999
Apt Pupil

Actors: Kevin Pollak, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Elias Koteas, Joe Morton, David Schwimmer

Synopsis: Bryan Singer directed this Brandon Boyce adaptation of Stephen King's novella about teenager Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), who discovers Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) living in his California hometown. Fascinated with Dussender's wartime atrocities, Bowden blackmails the former Read More

10/23/98
Six Days, Seven Nights

Actors: Harrison Ford, Anne Heche, David Schwimmer, Jacqueline Obradors, Temuera Morrison

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman directed this romantic comedy-adventure that opens in New York where fast-paced magazine associate editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) and her boyfriend, Frank (David Schwimmer), leave for a week's vacation on a remote island. They've already been together for three years, so when Frank Read More

6/12/98
Friends: Season 05

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: Season five of Friends opens just a few moments after the wedding of Ross (David Schwimmer) and Emily (Helen Baxendale), in which Ross all but sealed the doom for the union by invoking the name of Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) during the exchange of vows. It is also a scant few hours after Chandler (Matthew Perry Read More

1998
Kissing a Fool

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Schwimmer, Jason Lee, Mili Avital, Bonnie Hunt, Vanessa Angel

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, wealthy Chicago publisher Linda (Bonnie Hunt), hosting a wedding at her suburban estate, narrates the tale of how the couple arrived at the altar: Womanizing sportscaster Max (David Schwimmer) and novelist Jay (Jason Lee), friends since childhood, have different attitudes Read More

1998
Breast Men

Actors: David Schwimmer, Chris Cooper, Emily Procter, Matt Frewer, Louise Fletcher

Synopsis: This docudrama recaps the history of silicone breast implants, beginning in 1962 when idealistic Houston medical resident Kevin Saunders (David Schwimmer) gets an idea after seeing how women pad their bras. After he shares his notion with cosmetic pro Dr. William Larson (Chris Cooper), the two Read More

1997
Friends: Season 04

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: Resolving the cliffhanging finale of season three, the fourth season of Friends opens with Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) learning the true identity of her biological mother (played by Teri Garr). Elsewhere, Chandler (Matthew Perry) and Joey (Matt LeBlanc) have a major falling out when both roommates fall Read More

1997
The Pallbearer

Actors: David Schwimmer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Rapaport, Barbara Hershey, Carol Kane

Synopsis: This dark comedy is a clever homage to classic generation gap comedies such as The Graduate (1967), The Last Picture Show (1971) and The Big Chill (1983), filtered through an ironic Generation X lens. Tom Thompson (David Schwimmer) is unemployed and aimless, hovering between childhood and adult Read More

1996
Friends: The One with Russ

Synopsis: Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) dates a guy named Russ who looks a lot like Ross (both played by David Schwimmer) -- at least he does to everyone except Rachel. Meanwhile Monica's (Courteney Cox) date with former beau Fun Bobby (Vincent Ventresca) has plenty of Bobby but no fun now that he doesn't Read More

1996
Friends: Season 03

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: As Friends enters its third season, the series' romantic intrigues intensify. Monica (Courteney Cox) breaks up with Dr. Richard Burke (played during season two by Tom Selleck); Chandler (Matthew Perry) gets serious with his new girlfriend, Janice (Maggie Wheeler), but she can't bear to part with Read More

1996
Saturday Night Live: David Schwimmer

Actors: David Schwimmer, Natalie Merchant

Synopsis: This 1995 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by David Schwimmer and features musical guest Natalie Merchant. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Friends: Season 02

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: Friends inaugurates its second season as Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) digests the news that Ross (David Schwimmer) has a crush on her -- only to spot Ross with his new girlfriend, Julie (Lauren Tom). Forced to choose between the two women in his life, Ross goes with Rachel, and not long afterward the Read More

1995
Friends: Season 01

Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow

Synopsis: The first season of Friends could easily have been retitled "Getting to Know You," as all the soon-to-be-familiar characters, and their equally soon-to-be familiar interrelationships, were swiftly and economically established. In the opening episode, Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston) abandons her Read More

1994
Wolf

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson becomes a werewolf in this bizarre comedy-horror film directed by Mike Nichols. Nicholson plays Will Randall, a book editor with a testosterone deficit who has just been sacked at his publishing firm by a new boss, Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer). A colleague, Stewart Swinton (James Spader Read More

1994
Twenty Bucks

Actors: Linda Hunt, David Rasche, Concetta Tomei, George Morfogen, Sam Jenkins, Christopher Lloyd, Elisabeth Shue, Brendan Fraser

Synopsis: This fascinating chronicle of the life and times of a twenty dollar bill was originally written by Endre Boehm in 1935 and languished forgotten on the shelf until his son Leslie resurrected it after his father's death, and updated the script. (Both received screenwriter credit for the released Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: 4B or Not 4B

Synopsis: Just as they're closing in on the Mob, Kelly (David Caruso) and Fancy (James McDaniel) are ordered to turn off the heat. Though Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) will recover from his shooting, he may not be able to remember who tried to kill him. As Kelly's soon-to-be-ex-wife, Laura (Sherry Stringfield) Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Pilot

Synopsis: NYPD Blue was already off and running in its debut episode, in which Detective John Kelly (David Caruso), in the middle of an acrimonious marital breakup, is faced with the loss of his partner, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). Kelly's wife, Laura (Sherry Stringfield), is working on her divorce papers Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: True Confessions

Synopsis: Now back on active duty, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) disagrees with Detective Walker (Robert Breuler) over the guilt of a robbery-homicide suspect -- but uncharacteristically keeps his mouth shut. Though no longer moonlighting as the bodyguard of wealthy Susan Wagner (Wendie Malick), Kelly (David Caruso Read More

1993
NYPD Blue: Brown Appetit

Synopsis: Facing corruption charges because of past Mob ties, the father of officer Janice Licalsi (Amy Brenneman) takes drastic action. Confined to a desk while recovering from his wounds, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) demands that Fancy (James McDaniel) return him to street duty. While helping Martinez (Nicholas Turturro Read More

1993
Crossing the Bridge

Actors: Josh Charles, Jason Gedrick, Stephen Baldwin, Cheryl Pollak, Rita Taggart

Synopsis: In this coming-of-age drama, three recent high school graduates from Detroit must make a difficult choice when they are offered a fortune to smuggle hashish from Canada into the US. As they are quickly going nowhere in their grimy suburban town, the three buddies are sorely tempted. Each of them Read More

9/11/92
The Flight of the Intruder

Actors: Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson, Rosanna Arquette, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Two pilots go against the rule book in a bid to win the war in Viet Nam in this speculative military drama. Lieutenant Jake Grafton (Brad Johnson) is a U.S. Navy pilot stationed aboard an aircraft carrier after the death of his one-time flying partner Morgan McPherson (Christopher Rich), who Read More

1/18/91
The Wonder Years: The House That Jack Built

1991
A Deadly Silence

Actors: Heather Fairfield, Charles Haid

Synopsis: Made for TV, A Deadly Silence was based on the book by New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman. It is the doleful story of Long Island teenager Cheryl Pierson (Heather Fairfield), who in February of 1986 orchestrated the murder of her electrician father James Pierson (Charles Haid). The film does not Read More

1989

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