Henry Gibson Filmography

Trapped Ashes

Actors: Henry Gibson, Jayce Bartok, Lara Harris, Scott Lowell, Michèle-Barbara Pelletier

Synopsis: The traditional horror anthology makes a triumphant comeback in this collection of four frightfully horrific tales from directors Monte Hellman, Ken Russell, Sean S. Cunningham, John Gaeta, and Joe Dante. When seven strangers accept a mysterious invitation to tour a Hollywood studio lot, they Read More

Wedding Crashers

Actors: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: Two guys find out the hard way that sneaking into the wrong party can cause serious problems in this comedy. Jeremy Klein (Vince Vaughn) and John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) are a pair of longtime friends who work for a law firm, helping contentious couples mediate their divorces. Their job has given Read More

Cracking Up [TV Series]

Actors: Molly Shannon, Christopher McDonald, David Walton, Jake Sandvig, Caitlin Wachs

Charmed: Sand Francisco Dreamin'

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Henry Gibson, Rebecca Balding, Darin Heames

Synopsis: Henry Gibson guest stars as the Sandman (yes, that Sandman!), who asks Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) to protect him from a Tracer Demon (Darin Heames) bent upon destroying all the dreams in the world. In the process of helping the Sandman, Phoebe is galvanized when one of her worst nightmares Read More

Teddy Bears' Picnic

Synopsis: Actor and comedian Harry Shearer makes his directorial debut with this mock documentary about the slightly sordid pastimes of some of America's wealthiest and most powerful men. Zambesi Glen is a private resort in Northern California whose highly exclusive membership rolls includes high-echelon Read More

The Year That Trembled

Actors: Jonathan Brandis, Meredith Monroe, Marin Hinkle, Jonathan M. Woodward, Charlie Finn

Synopsis: American independent filmmaker Jay Craven directs the Vietnam-era coming-of-age drama The Year That Trembled, based on the novel by Scott Lax. Using stock footage along with a traditional narrative, the film takes place in Ohio following the 1970 student murders at Kent State. Right after high Read More

Mullitt

Actors: Pat Healy, Henry Gibson

Magnolia

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy

Synopsis: Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson followed his critical and commercial breakthrough Boogie Nights with this wildly ambitious story of lives intertwining on a single day in California's San Fernando Valley. Earl Partridge (Jason Robards), a successful producer of television game shows, left his Read More

A Stranger In The Kingdom

Actors: David Lansbury, Ernie Hudson, Martin Sheen, Bill Raymond, Sean Nelson

Synopsis: Jay Craven directed this post-WWII period drama adapted from a fact-based novel by Howard Frank Mosher. During the '50s, the service record of former Army chaplain Walter Andrews (Ernie Hudson) makes such an impression that he's hired over the telephone to serve as minister at a small town in Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 147: Profit and Lace

Asylum

Actors: Robert Patrick, Sarah Douglas, Henry Gibson, Malcolm McDowell

Synopsis: Following the suspicious death of a doctor-in-residence at a local mental hospital, a private investigator masquerades as a patient in order to solve the case. That the slain doctor was the detective's friend only complicates matters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bio-Dome

Actors: Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin, William Atherton, Joey Lauren Adams, Teresa Hill

Synopsis: The "slobs versus snobs" formula of lowbrow comedy gets a twist in this mindless Pauly Shore vehicle that pits slobs against scientists. Shore plays Bud Macintosh, a Tucson, Arizona, slacker and junior college student. Bud and his best pal Doyle Johnson (Stephen Baldwin), have just suffered the Read More

Mad About You: Dream Weaver

Synopsis: Celebrating his new job with the Explorer Channel, Paul (Paul Reiser) talks wife Jamie (Helen Hunt) into joining him in an exotic wild-game feast. As a consequence, both Paul and Jamie experience bizarre and colorful dreams, causing them both to re-assess their relationship. Highlights include a Read More

Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day

Actors: Peter Alexander

Synopsis: Superb black-and-white photography highlights this independent drama. John Lee (Peter Alexander) is the son of a Chinese-American father and a French mother, living in California shortly after World War II. John's grandfather was a Chinese laborer brought to America to help lay tracks for the Read More

Cyber Bandits

Actors: Martin Kemp, Alexandra Paul, Grace Jones, Robert Hays, Adam Ant

Synopsis: In this thriller, a man's tattoo contains vital information for the title thieves. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

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

Brenda Starr

Actors: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Brook Shields plays the comic-strip journalist, Brenda Starr, who travels to a South American jungle on an assignment. It is there that she covers the story about a mad scientist who plans to blow up the planet with his newly developed rocket fuel. Also appearing are Timothy Dalton and Charles Durning Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Incident in Lot 7

Synopsis: This unforgettable episode is set at Universal Studios, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) has arrived to supervise the film version of her novel "Messengers of Midnight." It isn't long before Jessica has had a confrontation with the film's abrasive producer Darryl Hayward (Ron Leibman), who seems to Read More

Tune in Tomorrow

Actors: Peter Falk, Keanu Reeves, Barbara Hershey, Hope Lange, Bill McCutcheon, Peter Gallagher, Patricia Clarkson

Synopsis: Tune in Tomorrow is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In New Orleans, circa 1951, a news writer for a local radio station, Martin Loader (Keanu Reeves), meets and falls in love with his aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey), a divorced woman who is looking for a new Read More

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More

Return to Green Acres

Synopsis: The cast from the popular television cornball comedy series are reunited when Oliver must save Hooterville from developers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Night Visitor

Actors: Elliott Gould, Richard Roundtree, Allen Garfield, Michael J. Pollard, Derek Rydall

Synopsis: A teenager puts his life in jeopardy when he tries to convince authorities that his high school's most unpopular teacher is a murderous Satanist who likes to torture and murder hookers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The 'Burbs

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: Ward and June Cleaver have nothing on suburban couple Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher. Together with their perfect son, Hanks and Fisher are so clean that they squeak. Thus, when new neighbors Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore and Courtney Gains begin evincing bizarre behavior, Hanks is slightly put out. Fisher Read More

Switching Channels

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson

Synopsis: The 1920s-era play The Front Page was about a Chicago reporter who wants to retire and get married but is tricked by his editor into doing one last story -- which proves to be complicated. It was made into a classic film in 1931 and inspired the 1940 hit movie His Girl Friday, in which the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Who Threw the Barbitals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder?

Synopsis: Cabot Cove's sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) certainly has his hands full when his sister Winnie (Anne Meara) shows up on his doorstep, announcing that she has walked out on her husband. Before long, Amos is besieged by Winnie's ill-tempered Kentucky in-laws, who don't cotton to such matters as Read More

Innerspace

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft Read More

Monster in the Closet

Actors: Donald, Grant, Denise Du Barry, Claude Akins, Howard Duff, Henry Gibson, Donald Moffat, Kevin Peter Hall

Synopsis: A humorous and skilful parody of the cliches and plot contrivances of 50's horror films, this monster movie is set in California, where closets can be large and quite important. The monster (Kevin Peter Hall) is straight out of Alien, if not quite as gruesome. It hides out in closets and wait for Read More

Long Gone

Actors: William L. Petersen, Virginia Madsen, Henry Gibson

Synopsis: Set during the 1950s, this made-for-cable serio-comedy stars William Petersen as the lovesick manager of a minor league baseball team whose team makes a pennant run. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Slow Burn

Synopsis: Slow Burn, directed by Matthew Chapman, a well-above average, made-for cable-TV mystery thriller tells the story of a detective and his search for the missing son and ex-wife of his client. Based on a novel by Arthur Lyons, and well-directed by Matthew Chapman this intelligent thriller follows Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Murder on Ice

Synopsis: Embarking upon their honeymoon, Quincy (Jack Klugman) and Emily (Anita Gillette) accept the invitation of an old friend, Judge Blake, to spend a "private" weekend at a ski lodge. Alas, the weekend proves anything but private when several other guests, all of them in the law-enforcement business Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Mixed Doubles

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is assigned as bodyguard to Carrie Reardon (Kim Richards), a young rising tennis star whose arrogance far outweighs her talent. One of Carrie's many enemies has been making death threats, and seems eager and willing to carry them out as soon as possible. Making the job Read More

The Incredible Shrinking Woman

Actors: Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson, Maria Smith, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: The Incredible Shrinking Woman, directed by Joel Schumacher, is an attempted social satire focusing on the position of women in our society and our social values. After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer (Lily Tomlin) begins to shrink. While this baffles Read More

Tulips

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Bernadette Peters, Henry Gibson, Al Waxman, David Boxer

Synopsis: After many failed attempts at suicide, a hopeless man takes a contract out on himself--except now that he has fallen in love with a likewise suicidal woman, he wants to live. Now he must figure out how to call off the hit man so they can enjoy life together. Gabe Kaplan and Bernadette Peters star Read More

Nashville Grab

Synopsis: A curious pure-entertainment offering from the same team responsible for the "Classics Illustrated" TV movies of the 1970s and 1980s, Nashville Grab stars Jeff Conaway as country-western singer Buddy Walker. While rehearsing for a prison concert, Buddy is kidnapped by female convicts Maxine (Betty Read More

For the Love of It

Synopsis: Veteran comedy specialist Hal Kanter milks every chuckle, chortle and guffaw of Stanley Ralph Ross' teleplay for For the Love of It. The story gets under way when the bad guys surreptitiously plant top-secret documents on a model (Deborah Raffin) and a med student (Jeff Conaway). He's crazy about Read More

The Blues Brothers

Actors: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, John Candy, Ray Charles, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: Expanding on their Saturday Night Live characters, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd star as Jake and Elwood Blues, two white boys with black soul. Sporting cool shades and look-alike suits, Jake and Elwood are dispatched on a "mission from God" by their former teacher, Sister Mary Stigmata (Kathleen Freeman Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Find Loretta Lynn

Synopsis: Country superstar Loretta Lynn appears as herself in this episode. Hazzard County is thrown into an uproar when Loretta is kidnapped by a trio of shabby amateur crooks (Henry Gibson, Dennis Burkley Rebecca Reynolds) who demand a ransom of $1136.15! Truth to tell, the kidnappers aren't all that Read More

Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill

Actors: Henry Gibson, Tanya Tucker

Synopsis: Director Joel Schumacher makes like Robert Altman in the made-for-TV Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill. In the tradition of Altman's Nashville, Schumacher's film is a rambling, anecdotal study of an amateur talent show in a tawdry Southern saloon. The link between the two films is Read More

A Perfect Couple

Actors: Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Titos Vandis, Belita Moreno, Henry Gibson

Synopsis: Robert Altman cooled his "innovative" jets to make the innocuous romantic comedy A Perfect Couple. Marta Heflin plays a member of a boisterous rock group. Paul Dooley is a bashful bachelor from a tradition-bound Greek family. Heflin and Dooley meet via a computer dating service, whereupon all the Read More

H.E.A.L.T.H.

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Carol Burnett, James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Dick Cavett

Synopsis: Robert Altman, the director responsible for M*A*S*H, came up with another acronymic title for his 1979 comedy H.E.A.L.T.H The letter stand for Happiness, Energy And Longevity Through Health--the name given a health-food convention at a Florida luxury hotel. In the tradition of his earlier Nashville Read More

The Kentucky Fried Movie

Actors: Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Bill Bixby, Tony Dow

Synopsis: Comedy writers David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams of Airplane and The Naked Gun fame got their start at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when they formed a theatrical group known as The Kentucky Fried Theater. The Kentucky Fried Movie is based on the KFT's gag-filled theatrical skits. Read More

Escape from Bogen County

Actors: Jaclyn Smith

Synopsis: A Southern big shot (Mitch Ryan) runs his local community like a personal fiefdom. His despotism extends to his abusive marriage to Maggie (Jaclyn Smith). Denied her basic rights as a woman and a human being, Maggie tries to file for divorce, only to run up against a corrupt, good-ole-boy legal Read More

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

Synopsis: In this drama, five beauty aspiring beauty queens are abducted in a hijacked airplane. Also upon the plane is a strain of deadly virus. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Remake of Beau Geste

Actors: Ann-Margret, Marty Feldman, Michael York, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: Beau Geste, the classic adventure story of a young man's dangerous journeys as part of the French Foreign Legion, becomes the subject of broad parody in this slapstick comedy. The original tale, best known to film lovers from William Wellman's 1939 classic, tells of several brothers who join the Read More

Nashville

Actors: Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious Read More

Violence in Blue

Synopsis: In this mystery, a group of high-ranking policemen have an important meeting and one of them ends up murdered, leaving the others to solve it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The New Original Wonder Woman

Actors: Lynda Carter

Synopsis: The second made-for-TV movie based on Charles Moulton's classy comic-strip heroine Wonder Woman, The New Original Wonder Woman was the one that "sold", resulting in a popular and durable weekly series. Replacing Cathy Lee Crosby, who'd starred in the disastrous 1974 adaptation of Wonder Woman, is Read More

Charlotte's Web

Actors: Robert Holt, Agnes Moorehead, Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson

Synopsis: This animated musical, based on E.B. White's children's book classic, is about a courageous spider who helps save the life of an ill-fated pig. Wilbur is a young pig (voice of Henry Gibson) who's owned by New England farmer Homer Zuckerman (voice of Robert Holt). One day he is sold to a neighbor Read More

The Long Goodbye

Actors: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell

Synopsis: "It's OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye. Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton Read More

Every Man Needs One

Synopsis: According to this cookie-cutter TV movie, every man needs a woman to put down his rampant chauvinism. Ken Berry is a swinging architect (yes, he has long sideburns) who doesn't believe that women should work. Enter Connie Stevens, a highly intelligent young lady whom Berry reluctantly hires as an Read More

Evil Roy Slade

Actors: Edie Adams, John Astin, Pamela Austin, Henry Gibson, John Ritter, Dick Shawn, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise, Penny Marshall, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Overlooked when it first aired February 18, 1972, the made-for-TV Evil Roy Slade has gained a loyal and protective cult following in the past 20 years. The film was the second pilot for a never-sold TV western spoof created by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, Sheriff Who?. Actually, it was the Read More

Bewitched: If the Shoe Pinches

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick Sargent, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Henry Gibson guest stars as a leprechaun named Tim O'Shanter, whom Endora has installed in the Stephens household to test the strength of Samantha and Darrin's marriage. Ticked off at Sam, Endora instructs Tim to make Darrin's life a living heck. As a result, Darrin is outfitted with a pair of Read More

Bewitched: Samantha's French Pastry

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: Henry Gibson takes time off from his Laugh-In duties to appear in this episode of Bewitched. While trying to magically create a French dessert, Uncle Arthur accidentally conjures up the spirit of Napoleon Bonaparte (Gibson). Though Samantha offers to zap "Nappy" back to his own time, the Little Read More

F Troop: The Return of Wrongo Starr

Synopsis: Henry Gibson returns as "jinxed" Army private Wrongo Starr, a character introduced in the first-season episode " Wrongo Starr and the Lady in Black" (excerpts of which are seen in sepia-tone). The troopers of Fort Courage are horrified to learn that Pvt. Starr has been assigned to guard a load of Read More

F Troop: Wrongo Starr and the Lady in Black

Synopsis: Henry Gibson guest stars as Private Wrongo Starr, the Army's most notorious jinx. The men of F Troop are terrified that Private Starr will wreak disaster upon them; after all, he has only recently finished a hitch with Custer at the Little Big Horn. Meanwhile, another infamous character shows up Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Talk to the Snail

Actors: Carl Reiner, Paul Winchell, Henry Gibson, Richard Deacon

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) comes across a crumpled network memo ordering his boss Alan Brady (Carl Reiner) to fire one of his writers. Certain that his job is on the chopping block, Rob reluctantly violates the edicts of his contract by looking for an outside writing assignment. His search leads to a Read More

The Outlaws Is Coming

Actors: Curly Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Adam West, Nancy Kovack, Henry Gibson, Murray Alper, Sally Starr

Synopsis: The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, and Curly Joe De Rita) leave Boston for the Wild West when they are fired from the Society for the Preservation of Wildlife. With Eastern editor Kenneth Cabot (Adam West), the boys find themselves in lawless Wyoming and the target of every infamous Read More

Kiss Me, Stupid!

Actors: Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond

Synopsis: The Catholic League of Decency gave Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid! a "condemned" rating. The Moral Majority charged the picture with debauchery and movie theaters across the nation discontinued its run. The bed-trick comedy had America's panties tied in a knot; one could not imagine a story so Read More

My Favorite Martian: Danger! High Voltage!

Synopsis: During his latest effort to reactivate his spaceship, Martin (Ray Walston) absorbs a huge amount of electricity. As result, the town's electrical power goes totally bonkers, with TVs and radios turning themselves on and off, and half of the LA area going completely dark. Worse still, Martin causes Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: A Man for Elly

Synopsis: Granny thinks she has found the ideal husband for Elly May: Quirt Manly, the rugged hero of Granny's favorite TV Western. Here at last is a "real man," one who can tame the rambunctious Elly. Without giving away the ending of this episode, it will suffice to say that Quirt Manly is played by Henry Gibson Read More

The Nutty Professor

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Med Flory, Howard Morris