George Burns Filmography

The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Actors: Dean Martin

A Conversation with George Burns

Actors: George Burns

Radioland Murders

Actors: Brian Benben, Mary Stuart Masterson, Ned Beatty, George Burns, Scott Michael Campbell

Synopsis: A blend of screwball farce and whodunit murder mystery, this madcap period piece was the brainchild of executive producer George Lucas. In 1939, Penny Henderson (Mary Stuart Masterson) is the harried general secretary and de facto manager of a new fourth radio network, WBN. On the night that the Read More

Wisecracks

Actors: Phyllis Diller, Whoopi Goldberg, Sandra Shamas, Jenny Lecoat

Synopsis: This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians, including Jenny Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Phyllis Diller, Ellen DeGeneres, and Paula Poundstone. In addition to screening their stand-up gigs and providing interviews with these funny Read More

Milton Berle: The Second Time Around - Funny Fifties

18 Again!

Actors: George Burns, Charlie Schlatter, Tony Roberts, Anita Morris, Miriam Flynn

Synopsis: On his 81st birthday, grandpa George Burns, bemoans the fact that he's wasted his life, and wishes he had it to do all over again. He gets his wish when he and his 18-year-old grandson Charles Schlatter are involved in an auto accident. When he awakens, Burns' personality has been transferred to Read More

George Burns: His Wit and Wisdom

Actors: George Burns

Rowlf's Rhapsodies with the Muppets

Oh, God! You Devil

Actors: George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver, Roxanne Hart, Eugene Roche

Synopsis: In the third and final film in the Oh, God! franchise, Bobby Shelton (Ted Wass) is a struggling musician who can't get a break, which bothers him all the more now that his wife, Wendy (Roxanne Hart), is about to have a baby. Desperate and depressed, Bobby announces that he'd sell his soul to get Read More

George Burns in Concert

Actors: George Burns

Synopsis: "I'm happy to be here. At my age I'm happy to be anywhere." Thus did octogenarian George Burns launch virtually every one of his personal appearances of the 1970s and 1980s. While many of Burns' jokes concern his age, the fact that the man was literally a product of another century never intrudes Read More

Two of a Kind

Actors: George Burns, Robby Benson, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: Though Two of a Kind was hardly George Burns' television debut, it was his first dramatic TV appearance. Burns is cast as Ross "Boppy" Minor, who is shunted away to a nursing home by his unfeeling son-in-law Cliff Robertson. Robby Benson co-stars as Nolie Minor, Boppy's mentally retarded grandson. Read More

Oh, God! Book II

Actors: George Burns, Suzanne Pleshette, David Birney, Louanne, John Louie

Synopsis: In this mild sequel to the 1977 appearance of George Burns as God, the Heavenly Father shows up again, this time to talk to Tracy (Louanne), a young girl whose earthly father (David Birney) is in the advertising business. God's intention is to promote himself among the children first. Tracy comes Read More

Just You and Me, Kid

Actors: George Burns, Brooke Shields, Burl Ives, Lorraine Gary, Nicolas Coster

Synopsis: In this comedy, an elderly ex-vaudevillian is surprised to find a naked young woman in the trunk of his car. He soon discovers that she is a runaway fleeing from both the police and an enraged drug dealer she cheated out of $20,000. Meanwhile, the codger's daughter continually attempts to get him Read More

Going in Style

Actors: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan

Synopsis: Joe (George Burns), Al (Art Carney), and Willie (Lee Strasberg) are three senior citizens who share a small apartment in New York City. They live off social security checks and spend their days sitting on a park bench, reading newspapers, feeding pigeons, and fending off obnoxious children. It's a Read More

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Actors: Peter Frampton, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Frankie Howerd

Synopsis: Pop star Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees star in this musical, loosely based on the popular 1967 Beatles album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In the story, Billy Shears, who now heads the Lonely Hearts Club Band, is the grandson of the famous Sergeant Pepper. He is confronted by the Read More

The Comedy Company

Actors: George Burns

Synopsis: Jack Albertson stars as an old-time Borscht Belt comic who owns his own nightclub. Albertson's public has been dwindling for years, and his club is in danger of folding. He decides to renovate his business by changing his establishment into a Comedy Store-like operation, opening his doors to Read More

Alice: Oh! George Burns

Synopsis: Everyone has a special way of overreacting when comedian George Burns shows up at the diner; Mel (Vic Tayback), for example, serves George coffee that's a few degrees hotter than Hades. Even more troublesome, the impressionable Vera (Beth Howland), having seen the movie Oh, God! three times, is Read More

Movie, Movie

Actors: George C. Scott, Barbara Harris, Eli Wallach, Trish VanDevere, Red Buttons

Synopsis: This spoof of a "typical" double-feature bill of the 1930s is introduced by George Burns, who explains that we're about to see two classic films produced by the legendary Warren Brothers. The first, "Dynamite Fists," is a black-and-white takeoff of such boxing dramas as Golden Boy. Harry Hamlin Read More

Oh, God!

Actors: George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Adapted by Larry Gelbart from the novel by Avery Corman, the film stars John Denver as Jerry Landers, the assistant manager of a grocery store who is chosen by God (George Burns) to spread the Word to the rest of the world. Not surprisingly, Jerry is soon labelled a basket case: even his loving Read More

The Sunshine Boys

Actors: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin, Lee Meredith, Carol Arthur

Synopsis: In this 1975 adaptation of Neil Simon's stage play, director Herbert Ross presents the story of two old-time Vaudvillians played by Walter Matthau and George Burns in his first starring role since 1939's Honolulu. After decades apart, the cantankerous duo is persuaded to reunite for a television Read More

Bobby Darin: The Darin Invasion

Actors: Bobby Darin

Synopsis: Linda Ronstadt and George Burns join Darin in this TV special featuring his hits. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy and George Burns

Actors: George Burns, Jack Benny, Joan Carey, Sid Gould

Synopsis: Season Five of The Lucy Show begins, typically enough, with a guest star--in this instance the ageless George Burns. While doing business with banker Mooney (Gale Gordon), Burns confides that he is working up a new nightclub act: All he needs is a "kooky" female partner. Enter Mooney's secretary Read More

The George Burns Show [TV Series]

Actors: George Burns

George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 08

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 07

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

The Solid Gold Cadillac

Actors: Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark, John Williams, Neva Patterson, Hiram Sherman, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: The Solid Gold Cadillac was adapted from the George S. Kaufman-Howard Teichmann Broadway hit of the same. Both the play and film were predicated upon the notion of a humble ten-share stockholder triumphing over a corrupt big-business board of directors, but there was one significant difference. In Read More

George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 06

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 05

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 04

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 03

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 02

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

George Burns and Gracie Allen Show: Season 01

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bea Benaderet

Honolulu

Actors: Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: George Burns and Gracie Allen made their last screen appearance together in the 1939 MGM musical Honolulu; indeed, it would be Burns' last film until his 1976 "comeback" in The Sunshine Boys. The nonsensical plotline is carried by Robert Young as famous movie star Brooks Mason, who wants to go to Read More

College Swing

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis: It's hard to go wrong with such stars as Bob Hope, Burns & Allen, Martha Raye and Edward Everett Horton, and College Swing doesn't-go wrong, that is. The film begins in 1738, when a pact is drawn up between the Alden family and a highly respected Colonial college: If any female member of the Read More

A Damsel in Distress

Actors: Fred Astaire, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Joan Fontaine, Reginald Gardiner

Synopsis: Fred Astaire's first RKO musical without his longtime partner Ginger Rogers is one of his best from any period -- even though it's obvious that leading lady Joan Fontaine can't dance a step. Written by P. G. Wodehouse, Damsel in Distress casts Astaire as Jerry, an American entertainer appearing in Read More

College Holiday

Actors: Jack Benny, Gracie Allen, Mary Boland, Martha Raye

Synopsis: The quaint genetic theories of the 1930s are satirized in College Holiday. Dotty matron Mary Boland runs a ramshackle summer resort, opening her doors to college students of both sexes--but only those collegiates with extra-special physical and mental skills. She hopes to encourage these select Read More

The Big Broadcast of 1937

Actors: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross

Synopsis: The third film of Paramount's "Big Broadcast" series follows the pattern of the first two titles: negligible plot with plenty of memorable music and guest stars. Jack Carson (Jack Benny) owns the radio station this time out; he doesn't get along with the sponsors, and many are threatening to pull Read More

The Big Broadcast of 1936

Actors: Jack Oakie, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Lyda Roberti, Bing Crosby, Wendy Barrie

Synopsis: After a false start in 1932, Paramount's Big Broadcast series was jump-started in late 1935 with The Big Broadcast of 1936. The wisp of a storyline involves two-bit radio station owner Spud (Jack Oakie), who doubles as the station's sole announcer while his comic partner Smiley (Henry Wadsworth) Read More

Here Comes Cookie

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, George Barbier, Betty Furness, Andrew Tombes

Synopsis: The classic comedians Burns and Allen are featured in this fast-paced farce that includes an assortment of corny vaudeville acts. The story centers around Gracie, the daughter of a wealthy business magnate. To prevent a gigolo, who is attempting to seduce his other daughter, from getting his Read More

Love in Bloom

Actors: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Dixie Lee, Joe Morrison, J.C. Nugent

Synopsis: Love in Bloom ostensibly stars George Burns and Gracie Allen,but the team is actually comedy relief for the romantic leads, Joe Morrison and Dixie Lee. Burns and Allen are travelling carnival performers working in a rundown tent show for Lee's father. Lee tires of her nomad life and heads to New Read More

We're Not Dressing

Actors: Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman

Synopsis: We're Not Dressing is a bouncy musical-comedy variation of J. M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton -- complete with a happier ending, as befitting its jaunty star Bing Crosby. Der Bingle is cast as Stephen Jones, a lowly crew member on yacht owned by wealthy Doris Worthington (Carole Lombard). Read More

Many Happy Returns

Actors: Guy Lombardo, Gracie Allen, George Burns, Joan Marsh, George Barbier

Synopsis: Department-store owner Horatio Allen's (George Barbier) biggest mistake is to name his scatterbrained daughter Gracie (Gracie Allen) as his sole heir. Suddenly Gracie becomes obsessed with the notion of converting her dad's store into a bird sanctuary. Psychologist Dr. Otto von Strudel (Egon Brecher Read More

Six of a Kind

Actors: Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, George Burns, W.C. Fields, Gracie Allen

Synopsis: The "six" are Charlie Ruggles, Mary Boland, George Burns, Gracie Allen, W.C. Fields, and Alison Skipworth, who star in this cross-country comedy. Planning a motor vacation to California, J. Pinkham Whinney (Ruggles) and Flora Whinney (Boland) advertise for a couple to help drive and share Read More

College Humor

Actors: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Mary Carlisle, Mary Kornman

Synopsis: Directed by Wesley Ruggles, the musical sendup of College Humor centers around the blooming love between a college professor (Bing Crosby) and one of his students (Mary Carlisle). Feeling stilted, the school football star (Richard Arlen) is temporarily unable to concentrate on his game. Read More

International House

Actors: Peggy Hopkins Joyce, W.C. Fields, Stuart Erwin, Sara Maritza, George Burns, Rudy Vallee

Synopsis: Hollywood responded to the exigencies of the Depression with such glorious nonsense as International House. The plot is motivated by a revolutionary television device called the Radioscope, which its Chinese inventor (Edmund Breese) is offering to the highest bidder. All interested parties are Read More

Let's Dance

Crew: Screenwriter

Your Hat

Crew: Screenwriter

Walking the Baby

Crew: Screenwriter

The Big Broadcast

Actors: Stuart Erwin, Bing Crosby, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Sharon Lynne, George Barbier, Leila Hyams

Synopsis: This early musical is a bit slim on story but features a number of vintage performances by a stellar cast, including some of the most popular radio stars of the day. George (George Burns) manages a radio station that is on the brink of bankruptcy. Leslie McWhinney (Stuart Erwin), a carefree Read More

Fit to Be Tied

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Beloved comedy duo George Burns and Gracie Allen made their big-screen debut with this 1931 short. Burns strolls into a modern department store to buy a tie, but can't get any assistance. The salesgirls are rude, the salesmen are insane, and no one is interested in fulfilling his simple request. Read More

The Babbling Book

Crew: Screenwriter

The Antique Shop

Crew: Screenwriter

Pulling a Bone

Once Over, Light

Crew: Screenwriter

Lambchops

Actors: Gracie Allen, George Burns

Synopsis: One of the most popular sketches from comic legends George Burns and Gracie Allen, in which Gracie declares her preference of lambchops over kissing, and of course flustering George as a result. The bit was captured on film in this short that was added to the National Film Registry in 1999 in an Read More