Jeffrey Tambor Filmography

Born:: July 8, 1944 in San Francisco, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Character actor Jeffrey Tambor has built his career in comedies playing the role of the uptight boss, or more generally, the stuffy guy. After graduate school, teaching, and a prolific stage career, Tambor started making television guest-starring appearances in the early '70s. He showed up on Three's Company...Read More

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Actors: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Luke Goss, John Alexander

Synopsis: Ron Perlman returns to the role of the big red BPRD agent in this sequel to 2004's Hellboy, directed once again by Guillermo del Toro and scripted as before in collaboration with original Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. For centuries, an ancient truce has kept the naïve citizens of the human race Read More

7/11/08
Superhero Movie

Actors: Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Hart, Brent Spiner

Synopsis: After spoofing disaster films in Airplane!, police shows in The Naked Gun, and Hollywood horrors in Scary Movie 3 and 4, producer David Zucker sets his satirical sights on the superhero genre with this anarchic comedy lampooning everything from Spider-Man to X-Men and Superman Returns. Shortly Read More

3/28/08
This Side of the Truth

Actors: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K.

Synopsis: Ricky Gervais directs himself in This Side of the Truth, a comedy where everyone in the world tells the truth but one misfit in the film industry, who after discovering the act of lying, milks it to become the world's most phenomenal performer. Matthew Robinson will co-direct from his own script Read More

1/1/08
Welcome to the Captain [TV Series]

Actors: Chris Klein, Fran Kranz, Jeffrey Tambor, Joanna Garcia, Raquel Welch

Synopsis: The CBS sitcom Welcome to the Captain may well have been inspired by Nathaniel West's searing novel Day of the Locust, which chronicled the hopeless aspirations and dashed dreams of Hollywood's "fringies". New York-bred writer Josh Flug (Fran Kranz) was a former "wunderkind" who'd been whisked to Read More

2008
Slipstream

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Stella Arroyave, Christian Slater, John Turturro, Michael Clarke Duncan

Synopsis: Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins took a turn behind the camera for the first time since 1996's August with this mind-bending fantasy that he also wrote and stars in. Hopkins plays Felix Bonhoeffer a screenwriter with a habit of getting lost in his own head. Felix begins to doubt reality Read More

10/26/07
Twenty Good Years [TV Series]

Actors: John Lithgow, Jeffrey Tambor, Heather Burns, Jake Sandvig, Judith Light

Synopsis: Unlike many of the other sitcoms of the 2006-2007 series which catered to the under-30 crowd, Twenty Good Years was carefully calculated to appeal to the "oldsters" in the audience--that is, anyone over 30. Seasoned comedy pros John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambor were cast respectively as pompous Read More

2006
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz

Actors: Ashanti, Queen Latifah

Synopsis: L. Frank Baum's enduring fantasy story gets a new and very funny spin in this made-for-TV comedy. Dorothy (Ashanti) is a young woman who works in a diner in Kansas owned by her Aunt Em (Queen Latifah) and dreams of one day making it big as a singer. When a tornado makes its way through the trailer Read More

2005
Arrested Development: Season 03

Actors: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Jeffrey Tambor, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett

2005
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

Actors: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass, Mr. Lawrence

Synopsis: Something nefarious is afloat in the depths of Bikini Bottom: King Neptune's crown has been stolen, and the prime suspect is Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob's boss at Mr. Krabs' Krabby Patties. Despite the overwhelming evidence against Mr. Krabs -- not to mention having been turned down for a long-awaited Read More

11/19/04
Hellboy

Actors: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor, Doug Jones, David Hyde Pierce

Synopsis: Mike Mignola's acclaimed comic book series about a creature from Hades who joins the battle against evil arrives on the screen in vivid form in this adaptation directed by distinctive horror filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. During World War II, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Read More

4/2/04
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

2/20/04
A Hairy Tale

2004
Funky Monkey

Actors: Roma Downey, Matthew Modine, Seth Adkins

Synopsis: When a rogue CIA agent and a kung fu fighting chimp named Clemens stage a daring escape from a top-secret government testing facility, the stage is set for an adventure that's sure to please the entire family in this primate crowd-pleaser featuring Matthew Modine, Seth Adkins, and Roma Downey. Read More

2004
Arrested Development: Season 02

Actors: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, Will Arnett, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: The Bluth family of Orange County, CA, once again forces the media critics to come up with new variations on the word "dysfunction" as the cult-favorite sitcom Arrested Development launches its second season. For those who came in late, straight-arrow Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) is still trying Read More

2004
The Dog Whisperer: Beginning and Intermediate Dog Training

Synopsis: Teach your favorite four-legged friend to behave properly and obey your command without resorting to yelling or swatting them with newspapers in this release that aspires to teach viewers easy and humane ways to train your dog. In addition to learning how to curb such annoying habits as jumping Read More

2004
My Boss's Daughter

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid, Jeffrey Tambor, Andy Richter, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Anarchic comedy veteran David Zucker directs hot young thing of 2003 Ashton Kutcher in the fast-paced romantic comedy My Boss's Daughter. Kutcher plays rookie executive Tom Stansfield, who wants to impress his demanding boss, Jack Taylor (Terence Stamp), and win the heart of said boss' Read More

8/22/03
Scorched

Actors: Rachael Leigh Cook

Synopsis: A handful of disgruntled bank employees decide to stage a robbery, but with no plans of doing it together, in this comedy. Sheila (Alicia Silverstone) is a teller at a small town bank who reaches her breaking point when her boyfriend, Rick Becker (Joshua Leonard), who also happens to be her boss Read More

7/25/03
Malibu's Most Wanted

Actors: Jamie Kennedy, Taye Diggs, Anthony Anderson, Blair Underwood, Regina Hall

Synopsis: A rich kid who likes to pretend he's from the wrong side of the tracks gets a taste of the real thing in this comedy. Brad Gluckman (Jamie Kennedy) is the son of a wealthy and socially prominent couple (Ryan O'Neal and Bo Derek) and grew up in the lap of luxury in Malibu, CA. However, Brad likes Read More

4/18/03
Arrested Development: Season 01

Actors: Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Michael Cera, Will Arnett, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: As Arrested Development leaps into its first season, hard-working Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) is on the brink of starting a new life in Arizona with son George Michael (Michael Cera) when he is dragged kicking and screaming back to California, there to take charge of his family's business when Read More

2003
Eloise at the Plaza

Actors: Julie Andrews, Christine Baranski, Jeffrey Tambor, Sofia Vassilieva, Debra Monk

Synopsis: Created by author/entertainer Kay Thompson in 1955, precocious six-year-old Eloise, who lived in the Plaza Hotel with her long-suffering nanny, her dog Weenie, and her turtle Skipperdee, was the heroine of several delightful children's books written by Thompson and whimsically illustrated by Hilary Knight Read More

2003
Eloise at Christmastime

Actors: Sofia Vassilieva, Julie Andrews

Synopsis: The precocious six-year-old Manhattanite of Kay Thompson's beloved Eloise books gets into the holiday spirit while playing cupid in this made-for-TV comedy. Eloise (Sofia Vassilieva) resides at the Plaza Hotel with her parents, and like much of the hotel staff, she's excited about the upcoming Read More

2003
Never Again

Actors: Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Michael McKean, Caroline Aaron, Sandy Duncan

Synopsis: Two singles in their early fifties who are convinced love has passed them by find each other -- and then try to figure out what to do next -- in this romantic comedy. Grace Minor (Jill Clayburgh) is a social worker whose personal life has hit the skids. Prompted by her friends Natasha (Sandy Duncan Read More

7/12/02
That Was Then [TV Series]

Actors: James Bulliard, Kiele Sanchez, Brad Raider, Jeffrey Tambor, Bess Armstrong

Synopsis: The ABC series That Was Then was a less comic variation on the premise of the like-vintage WB sitcom Do Over. James Bulliard starred as Travis Glass, a 29-year-old salesman who was still living with his parents. A perennial loser, Travis would give anything to return to his youth and correct past Read More

2002
Get Well Soon

Actors: Courteney Cox Arquette, Vincent Gallo, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: Wildly popular TV talk show host Bobby Bishop (Vincent Gallo) has a nervous breakdown during an on-camera interview with a pop starlet, with whom he makes a rather crude observation and offer. This lapse of taste sets off a series of scandals in his off-camera life, which his beleaguered agent (Jeffrey Tambor Read More

2001
Pollock

Actors: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: Artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized American painting in the 1940's with his exciting abstract canvases that used dripped and splattered paint in a manner at once excitingly physical and structurally intelligent. While Pollock became a heroic figure in the art world, his private life was nothing Read More

12/15/00
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Actors: Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon, Clint Howard, Taylor Momsen, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: He's mean, he's green, and he's doesn't like the Yuletide season one bit -- Jim Carrey stars in this live-action adaptation of the classic children's story by Dr. Seuss (aka Theodore Geisel). High atop Mt. Crumpet, the Grinch (Carrey) observes the residents of Whoville joyously preparing to Read More

11/17/00
Sammy [Animated Series]

Actors: David Spade, Harland Williams, Bob Odenkirk, Andy Dick

Synopsis: NBC's animated series based on David Spade's stand-up material about his dysfunctional father. Viewers first encounter the Blake family when Hollywood star James (David Spade) attempts to prevent his mother (Julia Sweeney) from discovering that his father, Sammy (Spade again) is living with him. Read More

2000
Girl, Interrupted

Actors: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and Read More

12/21/99
Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Actors: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor, Barry Watson, Marisa Coughlan

Synopsis: After the success of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and television's Dawson's Creek, screenwriter Kevin Williamson made his directorial debut with this screwball thriller in which an honor roll student and two friends kidnap their witchy teacher. Although her single mom (Lesley Ann Read More

8/20/99
Muppets from Space

Actors: Kirk Thatcher, Ken Kaufman, Mark Nutter, Thomas Wolfe, Dave Goelz, Jeffrey Tambor, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Brian Henson, Ray Liotta, David Arquette, Andie MacDowell

Synopsis: At long last, the secret of just what the Great Gonzo happens to be is revealed! As Gonzo and his friend Rizzo hit the road in search of their roots, Gonzo makes a shocking discovery: his parents are actually space aliens from another galaxy. After announcing this startling news on Miss Piggy's Read More

7/14/99
Everything's Relative

Actors: Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Kevin Rahm, Eric Schaeffer, Maureen Cassidy

1999
The Lot

Actors: Jonathan Frakes, Allen Garfield, Linda Cardellini, Stephanie Faracy, Jeffrey Tambor

1999
The Mao Game

Actors: Joshua Miller, Piper Laurie, Kirstie Alley, Jeffrey Tambor, Jodi Leesley

Synopsis: Child-actor turned novelist Joshua Miller now adds directing to his resume with this screen adaptation of his novel The Mao Game. Piper Laurie plays an older woman who gave up an early career as a hoofer to become a respected photographer. Her daughter (Kirstie Alley) has become a film star with Read More

1999
Meet Joe Black

Actors: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: The cycle of life on Earth hangs in the balance when Death becomes emotionally involved in this romantic fantasy. William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) is a tremendously wealthy and powerful man who oversees a worldwide multi-media empire. Despite the loss of his wife, whom he dearly loved, William is Read More

11/13/98
There's Something About Mary

Actors: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Lee Evans, Chris Elliott

Synopsis: The Farrelly Brothers set this romantic comedy in their home state of Rhode Island. In 1985, when teen-nerd Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren Jenson (W. Earl Brown), his concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary Jenson (Cameron Diaz Read More

7/15/98
Dr. Dolittle

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: Betty Thomas directed this adaptation of the classic children's stories by Hugh Lofting (1886-1947), updating the original concepts into the present day. When noted surgeon Dr. John Dolittle (Eddie Murphy) swerves his car to avoid hitting a dog, he hits his head on the windshield, triggering his Read More

6/26/98
The Larry Sanders Show: Season 06

Actors: Garry Shandling, Rip Torn, Jeffrey Tambor, Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Scott Thompson, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Synopsis: As The Larry Sanders Show began to wind toward the end of its run, fans could see from the first episode of the season that things didn't bode well for the increasingly stressed host. From the moment in "Another List" when Larry (Garry Shandling) began to to fret over the fact that Jon Stewart got Read More

1998
Weapons of Mass Distraction

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers, Jeffrey Tambor, Illeana Douglas

Synopsis: A wicked satire on mass media, this made-for-TV movie depicts the war initiated between two media moguls intent on buying the same football team. They are able to dig enough skeletons from each other's closets and are determined to continue despite the huge number of victims on both sides. ~ Yuri Read More

1997
The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: The Darkest Fathoms

Actors: J.D. Roth, George Segal, Robert Patrick, Michael Benyaer, Jesse Douglas

Synopsis: An oil expedition in Bermuda is terrorized by what seems to be band of phantom pirates. Sent to investigate, the Quest Team comes face to face with ghostly buccaneer Black Jack Lee, whose galleon, the Ivory Web, sank near the expedition site centuries before. As it turns out, however, Black Jack Read More

1996
The Larry Sanders Show: Season 05

Actors: Garry Shandling, Rip Torn, Jeffrey Tambor, Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Janeane Garofalo, Scott Thompson, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Synopsis: Kicking off with a memorable episode that came in number 39 in TV Guide's "100 Greatest Episodes of All Time" list, the penultimate season of The Larry Sanders Show found the show's side-splitting cynicism rising to hilarious new heights thanks to such episodes as "The Book" and "The Roast." In Read More

1996
Big Bully

Actors: Rick Moranis, Tom Arnold, Julianne Phillips, Carol Kane, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: In this comedy, a writer's triumphant return to his hometown turns out to have a very long string attached. As a child, small and timid David Leary grew up in Hastings, MN, where he lived in mortal fear of the school bully, Roscoe Bigger, aka "Fang." Fang loved nothing more than making David's Read More

1996
The Man Who Captured Eichmann

Actors: Robert Duvall, Arliss Howard, Jeffrey Tambor, Jack Laufer, Nicholas Surovy

Synopsis: In the spirit of such earlier efforts as Operation Eichmann and House on Garibaldi Street, this meticulously crafted cable movie recounts the 1960 mission by the Israeli secret service to kidnap Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from his hiding place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although Israel will Read More

1996
Heavyweights

Actors: Tom McGowan, Aaron Schwartz, Ben Stiller

Synopsis: Camp Hope is a summer camp for fat kids; it is also the locale of this Disney family comedy. All of the kids at Camp Hope have a weight problem. It is the one place they can go without feeling different. But when the previous owners declare bankruptcy, the camp is purchased by an obnoxious fitness Read More

1995
The Larry Sanders Show: Season 04

Actors: Garry Shandling, Rip Torn, Jeffrey Tambor, Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Janeane Garofalo, Scott Thompson

Synopsis: Perhaps in response to the sometimes dark turns taken in season three of The Larry Sanders Show, season four makes things a bit more upbeat by focusing on the foibles of show business rather than the strife of the characters. Despite characters blowing off steam in such episodes as "Arthur After Hours Read More

1995
Webber's World

Actors: Jeffrey Tambor, Rita Taggart, Jennifer Tilly, David Arquette, Brian Bloom, Robby Benson

Synopsis: Incredible as it must seem to some, quite a few families and individuals have agreed to give up all or part of their privacy and permit a film crew to record their every act. Therefore, the premise of this send-up of "reality television" is not so far-fetched as might be supposed. In the story, a Read More

1994
The Larry Sanders Show: Season 03

Actors: Garry Shandling, Rip Torn, Jeffrey Tambor, Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Janeane Garofalo, Linda Doucett

Synopsis: Taking a dark turn in may respects, season three of The Larry Sanders Show found familiar faces struggling with inner demons and the sometimes draining demands of a career in late-night television. Starting with the eponymous host living as a recluse and ending with him struggling to overcome an Read More

1994
Another Midnight Run

1994
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

1994
The Larry Sanders Show: Season 02

Actors: Garry Shandling, Rip Torn, Jeffrey Tambor, Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Janeane Garofalo, Linda Doucett, Kathryn Harrold

Synopsis: Relationships, contract negotiations, and the familiar Larry Sanders Show theme of paranoia-fueled hyper-competitiveness drive the second season of HBO's popular satire of late-night talk shows. While season one introduced viewers to the sometimes grating character quirks that would become the Read More

1993
A House in the Hills

Actors: Michael Madsen, Helen Slater, James Laurenson, Elyssa Davalos, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: A House in the Hills, is an offbeat, unusual film which can't decide if it is a love story or a thriller and ends up being neither. Waitress and aspiring actress Alex (Helen Slater) spends the weekend in a lavish house to study her role for a day-time soap opera. Alex is house-sitting for a 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
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

8/21/92
Article 99

Actors: Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Lea Thompson, John C. McGinley, Kathy Baker

Synopsis: The title Article 99 refers to a fictional legal loophole which states that American veterans cannot be treated in VA hospitals unless their illnesses are related to their military service. The pinchpenny administrator of a Kansas City hospital intends to follow this proviso to the letter, while Read More

3/13/92
The Burden of Proof

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was originally offered in two parts under the title Scott Turow's Burden of Proof. Adapted by John Gay from Turow's bestselling novel, the film stars Hector Elizondo as defense attorney Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, the same character played by Raul Julia in the 1990 cinemazation Read More

1992
The Larry Sanders Show: Season 01

Actors: Garry Shandling, Rip Torn, Jeffrey Tambor, Penny Johnson, Wallace Langham, Janeane Garofalo, Megan Gallagher, Jeremy Piven, Linda Doucett

Synopsis: In season one of HBO's Emmy award-winning series The Larry Sanders Show, audiences experienced the bizarre and often hilarious backstage antics of a late-night television talk show as rarely glimpsed by the outside world. From the stress of floundering ratings to the foibles of being a celebrity Read More

1992
Pastime

Actors: William Russ, Glenn Plummer, Noble Willingham, Jeffrey Tambor, Scott Plank

Synopsis: This highly rated independent production was written years before Bull Durham, and though it covers much of the same territory, it is considered worth seeing in its own right. In the story, Roy Dean Bream (William Russ) is too old to be part of his minor-league baseball team's cultural mainstream. Read More

8/23/91
Life Stinks