Diedrich BaderFilmography

Bolt

Actors: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell

Synopsis: From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Bolt, the tale of a superstar TV pup (voiced by John Travolta) who gets plopped in the middle of America with seemingly no way back to the glam and glitz of Hollywood. Thanks to his starring role on a hit television show, Bolt the pooch has become a Read More

Meet the Spartans

Actors: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Diedrich Bader

Synopsis: From the creators of Scary Movie and Date Movie comes this tongue-in-cheek parody of the sword-and-sandal epics, dubbed Meet the Spartans. The 20th Century Fox production was written and directed by the filmmaking team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer. Sure, Leonidas may have nothing more than Read More

Batman: The Brave and the Bold [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Will Friedle, James Arnold Taylor

Balls of Fury

Actors: Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez, Maggie Q, James Hong

Synopsis: A disgraced former ping pong champion is drawn back into the world of high-stakes table tennis to carry out a top-secret mission in the feature directorial debut of Reno 911! writer/director Ben Garant. Far removed from the rigidly regulated world of professional sports, clandestine ping pong Read More

Surf's Up

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Jeff Bridges, Zooey Deschanel, Jon Heder

Synopsis: A surfing penguin currently riding the wave of success enters his first professional competition in this computer-animated family-oriented comedy from directors Chris Buck and Ash Brannon. Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf) may be a relative amateur when it comes to hanging ten, but he's sure he has Read More

Sunny and Share Love You

Actors: Michele Mulroney, Micah Schraft

Synopsis: Filmmaker Matthew Buzzell takes a break from documentaries to helm this mockumentary concerning an indie filmmaker who attempts to reunite a once-successful 1990s-era pop duo. Michele Mulroney and Micah Schraft share a co-writing credit for the screenplay and star in a film featuring appearances Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk and the Naked Man

Synopsis: Despite his lifelong phobia regarding naked people, Monk (Tony Shalhoub) agrees to investigate a murder at a nudist beach. His discomfort amongst the "au naturel" crowd almost leads Monk to align himself with the chief suspect, software billionaire Peter Magneri (Alfred Molina), who has been Read More

National Lampoon Presents Cattle Call

Synopsis: A group of disgruntled actresses plot revenge after learning that a high profile casting call was actually a scam cooked up by three lonely losers just looking to get laid. Sherman and Glen just wanted a little action, but romantic Richie Ray was looking for his dream girl. At first their seedy Read More

Dead & Breakfast

Actors: Ever Carradine, Brent David Fraser, Bianca Lawson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Synopsis: A road trip rolls through a small town where the line between the dead and the living has become a bit problematic in this horror parody. A handful of twentysomethings are driving to Galveston, TX, in an RV to attend the wedding of a close friend. After a long day on the road, the travelers find Read More

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano Jr., William Shatner, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: FBI agent-turned-reluctant beauty queen Gracie Hart (played by Sandra Bullock) is taking on both bad guys and high glamour again in this sequel to the comedy smash Miss Congeniality. After her undercover mission at the Miss United States pageant becomes public knowledge, Gracie becomes something Read More

Napoleon Dynamite

Actors: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino

Synopsis: The directorial debut of filmmaker Jared Hess, who also co-wrote the screenplay, Napoleon Dynamite is a quirky, offbeat comedy set in the small Idaho town of Preston. Jon Heder stars in the titular role, a carrot-topped oddball with a decidedly eccentric family that includes his llama-loving Read More

Eurotrip

Actors: Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelle Trachtenberg, Travis Wester

Synopsis: Written and directed by Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer, Eurotrip is a teen comedy from the Montecito Picture Company (makers of similar movies Old School and Road Trip). Mainstream teenager Scott (Scott Mechlowicz) forms an online friendship with German student Mieke in order to get a Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Season 09

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: The ninth and final season of The Drew Carey Show was what is known in show business as a "burnoff". Though contractually committed to keep the series on the air until the Summer of 2004 and to approve a budget of $3 million per episode, ABC was unable to justify these conditions as the series' Read More

Center of the Universe [TV Series]

Actors: John Goodman, Jean Smart, Diedrich Bader, Melinda McGraw, Spencer Breslin

The Drew Carey Show: Baby Makes Stress

Synopsis: Pregnant Kellie (Cynthia Watros) fumes when Drew (Drew Carey) misses their first sonogram to go out bowling and drinking with the boys. That's right: Their kid hasn't even been born yet, and already the couple is quarrelling over every single solitary aspect of parenthood. All this arguing proves Read More

The Country Bears

Actors: Christopher Walken, Stephen Tobolowsky, Daryl Mitchell, M.C. Gainey, Diedrich Bader

Synopsis: This family musical enjoys the dubious distinction of being the first film ever based on a theme park attraction, the "Country Bears Jamboree" at Disneyworld. Beary Barrington (voice of Haley Joel Osment) is an adolescent bruin raised by a human family after he was found by a park ranger Read More

Ice Age

Actors: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic, Jack Black

Synopsis: A team of "sub-zero heroes" band together to save a human infant in this digitally animated feature from Oscar-winning director Chris Wedge, whose unique lighting software (called "Ray Tracing") sets his visual style apart from earlier CGI efforts. Twenty thousand years ago, the Earth is overrun Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Season 08

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Although by prior agreement ABC was required to retain The Drew Carey Show on its prime time schedule through 2004 at a cost of $3,000,000 per episode, by the fall of 2002 it was obvious that the series' plummeting ratings no longer justified such a long-term commitment. Thus, only 15 of the 27 Read More

The Zeta Project: Season 02

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Julie Nathanson, Ulysses Cuadra, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Rosenbaum

Evil Alien Conquerors

Synopsis: Tori Spelling, Drew Carey Show stalwart Diedrich Bader, and SNL alum Chris Parnell team up for this wacky takeoff on B-movies, written and directed by Bill and Ted co-creator Chris Matheson. True to its title, Evil Alien Conquerors involves the efforts of Matheson and Parnell's bickering Read More

Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The keeper of one of the most distinctive voices in modern jazz, enigmatic singer Jimmy Scott has overcome remarkable adversity to become one of the most respected jazz vocalists of his generation. Now viewers can accompany Scott on his remarkable life journey in this revealing and personal Read More

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Actors: Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Ben Affleck, Shannon Elizabeth

Synopsis: The frequently recurring title characters, employed by writer and director Kevin Smith as supporting players in several of his films, are put to rest with this comedy that focuses on them exclusively. Jay (Jason Mews) and Silent Bob (Smith) are a pair of stoned New Jersey slackers who have long Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Season 07

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: The cast and crew of The Drew Carey Show entered its seventh season with more security and hubris than ever before. Thanks to the series' past excellent ratings performance, the producers and ABC had entered into an agreement whereby the show was "locked" into the network's schedule until the fall Read More

The Zeta Project: Season 01

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Julie Nathanson, Ulysses Cuadra, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Rosenbaum

The Drew Carey Show: Season 06

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Season Six of The Drew Carey Show opens with the title character (played, naturally, by Drew Carey losing his job at Cleveland's Winfred-Louder department store and ending up slinging hash at his former high school's cafeteria--and despite this enormous setback, our hero is bound and determined to Read More

Baby Blues [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Mike O'Malley, Julia Sweeney, Joel Murray, Arabella Field, Kath Soucie

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

Actors: Tim Allen, Wayne Knight, Nicole Sullivan, Stephen Furst

Synopsis: Buzz Lightyear, the plastic spaceman who helped conquer the toy box in the wildly popular Toy Story films, returns in this animated adventure. Buzz (voice of Tim Allen) and his partner Agent Z (voice of Diedrich Bader) have devoted themselves to keeping Gamma Quadrant in Deep Space free of Read More

Office Space

Actors: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu

Synopsis: Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is a computer programmer working for Initech in Houston. Every day, he and his friends Samir (Ajay Naidu) and Michael Bolton (David Herman as not THAT Michael Bolton), suffer endless indignities and humiliations in their soulless workspace from their soulless boss Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Season 05

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: All prior vestiges of "real life" on The Drew Carey Show have been ravaged, murdered and buried by the time Season Five rolls around. Typically surrealistic entries this season find Drew (Drew Carey) on trial for trying to murder his longtime bete noire Mimi (Kathy Kinney), and later hosting a Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Season 04

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Whatever connection The Drew Carey Show ever had with "real life" during its first three seasons is utterly scattered to the winds in Season Four with the bizarre, surrealistic episode "High Road to China"--which, incidentally, was also the first American sitcom episode ever to be filmed in Read More

Murphy Brown: Desperate Times

Synopsis: Murphy (Candice Bergen) desperately seeks an ally at the network when Kay (Lily Tomlin) presumptively decides to move the entire "FYI" staff to California. The situation prompts Murphy to join forces with Mr. Lansing's weaselly nephew Andrew (Paul Reubens), now ensconsed in a Buddhist monastery. Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Season 03

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: The Drew Carey Show continues to abandon reality in favor of surrealism through the series' third season, beginning with a story arc wherein the obstreperous Mimi (Kathy Kinney), eternal enemy of series hero Drew Carey (playing himself), goes into full "Steven King" mode, holding her traumatized Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Season 02

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Season Two of The Drew Carey Show finds most of the Season One regulars still in place, with one significant addition: Craig Ferguson as the unspeakable, diabolically impulsive Nigel Wick, Drew's new boss at Cleveland's Winfred-Louder department store. Also introduced this season is the series' Read More

Frasier: The Innkeepers

Synopsis: In a fit of nostalgia, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) and Niles (David Hyde Pierce) purchase their favorite restaurant, a landmark establishment that has fallen on hard times. The brothers eagerly look forward to the opening of the newly christened "Les Frères Heureux," which translates as "The Happy Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Season 01

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Cleveland's favorite son Drew Carey stars as Cleveland's favorite son Drew Carey in the first season of the popular ABC sitcom bearing his name. Of course, Carey does not really play "himself", a successful standup comedian: The TV version of Drew Carey is the long-suffering, overworked and Read More

Teresa's Tattoo

Actors: Adrienne Shelly, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy McKeon, Lou Diamond Phillips, Casey Siemaszko

Synopsis: It's the old switcheroo in this action comedy that follows the exploits of desperate extortionists. Gloria is a fluffhead with a Chinese dragon tattooed upon her chest. She wears lovely holograph earrings that just happen to contain classified detail of the U.S. space program. She is taken hostage Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies

Actors: Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Rob Schneider, Jim Varney

Synopsis: Penelope Spheeris directed this compulsively faithful film adaptation of the popular 1960s television series. The familiar story 'bout a man named Jed Clampett (Jim Varney), a poor mountaineer who barely kept his family fed, continues to follow the TV show's format. Jed discovers oil on his Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Guess Who's Coming to Marry?

Synopsis: Will (Will Smith) is asked to be best man at the wedding of his Aunt Janice (Charlayne Woodard)--only to be forbidden from attending the ceremony by his domineering mother Vy (Vernee Watson-Johnson). The reason is both simple and sad: Vy has just learned to her horror that Janice's fiance is a Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Christmas Show

Synopsis: The family heads to a mountain-resort cabin for the Christmas holidays. Unfortunately, while Philip (James Avery) and Viv (Janet Hubert-Whitten) are elsewhere, a charming thief (Charley Lang) inveigles his way into the cabin, ties up the kids, and makes off with all the Christmas presents. How can Read More

Cheers: Sammy and the Professor

Synopsis: 1940s movie star Alexis Smith guest stars as Professor Alice Anne Volkman, the revered business-school mentor of Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley). Much to Rebecca's dismay, Prof. Volkman has more than business on her mind when she is attracted to Sam (Ted Danson). Meanwhile, it's Norm (George Wendt) Read More

The Preppie Murder

Actors: William Baldwin

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Preppie Murder begins on August 26, 1986. This was the day that 18-year-old Jennifer Levin (Lara-Flynn Boyle) was strangled to death in Central Park. The prime suspect, Jennifer's 19-year-old boyfriend Robert Chambers (William Baldwin), confesses to the crime. The Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Emissary

Synopsis: Suzie Plaskin guest stars as the half-Klingon K'Ehleyr. A former lover of Lt. Worf's, K'Ehleyr arrives on board the Enterprise, returning from a 75-year-old diplomatic mission that commenced before the end of the Klingdon/Federation hostilities. A political and emotional crisis develops when a Read More

Desert Rats

Synopsis: In this pilot for a TV series that was not to be, a young rebel becomes town hero when he unintentionally thwarts a raid on the local bank, and on the strength of this, he is offered the job of sheriff, which of course only leads him into more trouble. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More