Jane Curtin Filmography

Crumbs [TV Series]

Actors: Fred Savage, Jane Curtin, William Devane, Eddie McClintock, Maggie Lawson

Synopsis: The situation comedy Crumbs stars Fred Savage as Mitch, a closeted gay screenwriter who leaves California to return East in order to help care for his mother (Jane Curtain) who was just released from a mental institution after attempting to kill her husband (William Devane) after he strayed from Read More

Crumbs [TV Series]

Actors: Fred Savage, Jane Curtin, Eddie McClintock, William Devane, Maggie Lawson

Synopsis: Created by Marco Pennette, ABC's Crumbs was an off-kilter sitcom dealing with such warm-and-fuzzy issues as mental illness, attempted homicide, divorce, closeted homosexuality, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and bitter sibling rivalry. In one of the most spectacular examples of non-typecasting in TV Read More

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

Actors: Noah Wyle, Gabrielle Anwar, Jane Curtin, Robert Foxworth, Olympia Dukakis, Bob Newhart

Synopsis: An adventurous former librarian sets out in search of the legendary mines of King Solomon in this epic sequel to The Librarian: Quest for the Spear starring Noah Wyle, Gabrielle Anwar, Bob Newhart, and Olympia Dukakis. Flynn Carsen (Wyle) was a quiet bookworm whose 12 bachelor's degrees, six Read More

Brooklyn Lobster

Actors: Danny Aiello, Jane Curtin, Daniel Sauli, Marisa Ryan

Synopsis: A family struggles to keep their business afloat as they're dogged by personal crises in this drama from writer and director Kevin Jordan. Frank Giorgio (Danny Aiello) is the owner of Giorgio's Lobster Farm, a seafood shop in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. The store has been in the Read More

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Actors: Noah Wyle, Kyle MacLachlan, Sonya Walger, Jane Curtin, Kelly Hu

Synopsis: A "professional student" lands a truly remarkable job in this witty made-for-TV fantasy adventure. Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle) is a 30-year-old graduate student who has managed to collect a whopping 22 university degrees; despite his brilliance, shy Flynn seems to have a hard time with the real Read More

Geraldine's Fortune

Actors: Jane Curtin

Our Town

Actors: Paul Newman, Maggie Lacey, Ben Fox, Frank Converse, Jayne Atkinson

Synopsis: Originally assembled by actress Joanne Woodward at Connecticut's Westport County Playhouse (where she served as artistic director), this highly praised 2002 revival of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 play Our Town enjoyed a brief Broadway stay that same year, and it was during its Read More

Catch a Falling Star

Actors: Sela Ward, Rebecca Jenkins, Andrew Jackson, Jane Curtin, John Slattery

Synopsis: While on a location shoot, spoiled movie actress Sydney Clarke (Sela Ward) clashes with her equally temperamental director. Storming off the set in a snit, Sydney gets lost in the woods, then hitches a ride to a small New England steel town -- where, amazingly, no one seems to recognize her. Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 06

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Compared to the zany opening episodes of previous seasons, the sixth and final season of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun boasts a rather innocuous opener, with alien-in-human-form Dick Solomon (John Lithgow) helping his human-in-human form fiancée Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) teach a Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 05

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: The riotous conclusion of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun's fourth season has a big spillover effect at the beginning of Season Five. The Solomon "family", a group of aliens in human form who've come to earth on a fact-finding mission, are relieved to discover that the baby borne by Harry Read More

Antz

Actors: Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Gene Hackman, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images collaborated on this all computer-animated comedy-adventure about the ant angst of misfit worker ant, Z (voice of Woody Allen), who feels trapped by the conformist confines of his totalitarian ant civilization and eventually sets forth in search of Insectopia. Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 04

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Resolving the cliffhanger ending of Season Three, Season Four of 3rd From the Sun finds the Solomon family--actually a team of aliens who've assumed human form while on a fact-finding mission on Planet Earth--desperately searching for their kidnapped colleague Harry Solomon (French Stewart) Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 03

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Season Three of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun opens with another dilemma for the group of space aliens who have assumed the human form of the "Solomon" family for the purpose of gathering intelligence on the planet earth: It seems that group leader Dick Solomon (John Lithgow) has been Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 01

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Upon assuming human form, the team of extraterrestrials calling themselves the Solomon family begin developing human emotions and character faults, as Season One of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun begins its first season. Despite the difficulties inherent in adjusting themselves to their Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 02

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Season two of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun begins where Season One left off, with Dick Solomon (John Lithgow), the leader of a group of space aliens who've assumed human form to gather intelligence on the planet earth, still locked in the basement of his home, while his alien clone Read More

Tad

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Bug Hall

Synopsis: The true story of Abraham Lincoln and the special relationship he had with his son is told in this made-for-television drama. Kris Kristofferson stars as the President, who during the Civil War years was raising his seven year-old son Tad (Bug Hall), with his wife Mary (Jane Curtain). The film Read More

Coneheads

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander

Synopsis: "The Coneheads" were a sketch on the Saturday Night Live television show of the late '70s which were expanded to feature-length proportions with this film. The story concerns Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Jane Curtin), who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Planet Earth. Read More

Common Ground, Part 1

Actors: Jane Curtin, Richard Thomas

Synopsis: J. Anthony Lukas' 1985 Pulitzer Prize winning book Common Ground served as the basis of the two-part TV movie Common Ground. Jane Curtin plays Alice McGoff, and CCH Pounder plays Rachel Twymon, two Boston housewives and mothers on opposite sides of one of the city's bitterest racial battles. In Read More

Common Ground, Part 2

Synopsis: In part one of the 4-hour TV movie Common Ground (see separate entry for details), the city of Boston embarks upon its 1974 school busing program. Instead of bringing unity and harmony, the buses have brought dissension, divisiveness, and some of the ugliest overt bigotry since the 1950s. The Read More

The Best of Gilda Radner

Synopsis: Within a single year, Gilda Radner rose from talented but obscure improv comedienne to "America's Sweetheart" thanks to NBC's Saturday Night Live. The 60-minute video The Best of Gilda Radner is culled from SNL's vintage years, 1975 to 1980. Included are such beloved Radner creations as Roseanne Read More

Reading Rainbow: Duncan and Delores

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: Cats can be very loving creatures, but they might resist someone who is overly affectionate, as Dolores learns in Duncan and Dolores, read by Jane Curtin. LeVar Burton visits Marine World Africa U.S.A., meeting Bengal tigers and their trainers in Reading Rainbow: Duncan and Delores. One of the Read More

Kate and Allie: Season 06

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, Ari Meyers, Frederick Koehler, Allison Smith

Maybe Baby

Actors: Jane Curtin, Dabney Coleman, Julia Duffy, David Bowe

Synopsis: The 1988 TV movie Maybe Baby stars Jane Curtin as Julia, a 39 year old career woman, married to upwardly mobile 57-year-old Hal (Dabney Coleman). Julia and Hal had originally agreed not to have children, but after heeding the tick-tock of her biological clock, Julia has changed her mind. At first Read More

O.C. and Stiggs

Actors: Daniel Jenkins, Neil Barry, Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Jon Cryer, Ray Walston

Synopsis: In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the National Lampoon. Oliver Cromwell Ogilvie (Daniel Jenkins), aka O.C., and his buddy Mark Stiggs (Neil Barry Read More

Suspicion

Synopsis: In this remake of Hitchock's great suspense film, a new bride is filled with dread as her suspicions that her groom is a ruthless killer mount. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of Chevy Chase

Synopsis: "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not!" Maybe no one would want to be Mr. Chase these days (not with his recent string of box-office flops), but in 1975 and 1976, the world was Chevy's oyster. Those are the years that he rose to stardom on NBC's Saturday Night Live, and these are the years Read More

Kate and Allie: Season 05

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, Ari Meyers, Frederick Koehler, Allison Smith

Kate and Allie: Season 04

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, Ari Meyers, Frederick Koehler, Allison Smith

The Best of Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: The Best of Dan Aykroyd is a 60-minute compilation of highlights from the first five years of TV's Saturday Night Live. As indicated by the title, the emphasis is on the multitalented Dan Aykroyd. The bits vary in quality but hit the target with far more frequency than the current dismal Read More

The Best of John Belushi

Actors: John Belushi

Synopsis: Assembled long after John Belushi's death in 1982, The Best of John Belushi is at once hilarious and melancholy. From 1975 to 1979, Belushi was a member in excellent standing of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on NBC's Saturday Night Live. This 60-minute video covers those amazing years Read More

Kate and Allie: Season 03

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, Ari Meyers, Frederick Koehler, Allison Smith

Kate and Allie: Season 02

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, Ari Meyers, Frederick Koehler, Allison Smith

Kate and Allie: Season 01

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin, Ari Meyers, Frederick Koehler, Allison Smith

Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda

Synopsis: This comical video features the cast of the original Saturday Night Live and the quietly riotous Bob and Ray. Also featured is Willie Nelson who croons three tunes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Divorce Wars: A Love Story

Synopsis: This superior ABC Theatre of the Month presentation is not so much about the reasons for divorce as it is about the tensions surrounding the actual litigation. Tom Selleck plays a topnotch Seattle divorce lawyer, juggling several delicate cases at once. Arrogantly secure in his legal prowess Read More

How to Beat the High Co$t of Living

Actors: Susan Saint James, Jessica Lange, Richard Benjamin, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Jane Curtin and Susan Saint James share star-billing with Jessica Lange in this uninspired comedy about three women who need a cash infusion. (Curtin and Saint James would later co-star in the popular sitcom Kate and Allie.) Jane (Saint James) is divorced and financially pressed to raise her Read More

Saturday Night Live: Season 05

Actors: Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer

Saturday Night Live: Season 04

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner

Saturday Night Live: Season 03

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner

Saturday Night Live: Season 02

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner

Saturday Night Live: Season 01

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner

Best of Saturday Night Live: The Coneheads