Jim VarneyFilmography

Daddy & Them

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Jeff Bailey, Brenda Blethyn, Laura Dern, Jim Varney, Diane Ladd, Daniel Steven Di Vito, Walton Goggins, Andy Griffith

Synopsis: Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this serio-comic look at the trials (literally and figuratively) of an eccentric Arkansas family. Struggling musician Claude (Thornton) and his wife Ruby (Laura Dern) get the news that Claude's uncle Hazel (Jim Varney) has been accused of murder Read More

Toy Story 2

Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles

Synopsis: Woody the Cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of their friends from the toy box return in this computer-animated sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story. This time around, Andy, the young boy who is the proud owner of most of our cast of characters, is off at summer camp, giving the toys a few weeks off Read More

Existo

Actors: Bruce Arnston, Jackie Welch, Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Michael Montgomery

Synopsis: Artists have become revolutionaries and a singer/songwriter is an enemy of the state in the musical satire Existo. After Christian fundamentalist groups have taken over America, leftists and bohemians are driven underground as subversives. Existo (Bruce Arnston) is a musician whose songs have Read More

3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain

Actors: Hulk Hogan, Loni Anderson, Jim Varney, Mathew Botuchis, Michael J. O'Laskey II, J.P. Roeske II

Synopsis: This is the fourth in the 3 Ninjas action-adventure series with retired ninja Grandpa Mori (Victor Wong) as the connective device linking all four films. Following the low-rent 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (a 1992 production which went unreleased until 1995), the fourth boosts the budget and features three Read More

Treehouse Hostage

Actors: Debby Boone, Richard Kline, Joey Zimmerman, Todd Bosley, Kristopher Kachurak, Jim Varney

Synopsis: Jim Varney stars in this comedy as Carl Banks, a famous counterfeiter who has escaped from prison. However, while he eludes the Police, the FBI and the Mafia, he manages to get caught in a trap 10-year-old Timmy Taylor has set in back yard. Figuring it would be a lot more exciting than summer Read More

Ernest in the Army

Actors: Jim Varney

Synopsis: The U.S. Army's most unlikely soldier, Ernest P. Worrel (Jim Varney), finds himself responsible for saving the world when he and his troopmates are sent out to take down a tyrant. As with other entries in the Ernest series, this one is filled with plenty of low-brow, slapstick humor. ~ Sandra Read More

Snowboard Academy

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Jim Varney, Corey Haim, Brigitte Nielsen

Synopsis: This goofy low-budget comedy follows a group of maverick misanthropes as they try to save the struggling title school from financial ruin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

100 Proof

Actors: Jim Varney, Tara Bellando, Jack Stubblefield Johnson, Minnie Bates Yancey

Synopsis: Based in part on an actual incident, the independent drama 100 Proof records one especially bad day in the lives of Rae (Pamela Stewart) and Carla (Tara Bellando), two tough but misused women living in a small Kentucky town. Rae and Carla get by through a combination of low-paying jobs, petty Read More

Ernest Goes to Africa

Actors: Jim Varney, Linda Kash, Jamie Bartlett

Synopsis: Slapstick handyman Ernest is in love and wants to buy a bauble for his gal Renee, so he goes to a local flea market and buys a couple of shiny faux jewels. He has no idea that they are real and that they were stolen from a sacred African idol by a crooked adventurer. He also does not know that a Read More

Annabelle's Wish

Synopsis: In this animated comedy/drama for the family, Annabelle (voice of Kath Soucie) is a calf who has a special wish for Christmas -- she'd like to be a reindeer and help Santa Claus drive his sleigh as he delivers his presents. Annabelle's friends tell her not to get her hopes up, but to everyone's Read More

Roseanne: Someday My Prince Will Come

Synopsis: A prince (Jim Varney) comes to Lanford with hopes of romancing Jackie. He then invites the Conners on a trip to New York. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Home Is Where the Afgan Is

Synopsis: In this Thanksgiving episode, Roseanne is glad that she won't have to cook, but she's upset that Dan won't be there. Leon (Martin Mull) and Scott (Fred Willard) visit with the news that they are thinking about adopting a child. This leads into a discussion with Bev (Estelle Parsons) where she Read More

Toy Story

Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assured that the film is as chock-full of heart and warmth as any Disney cartoon feature. The star of the proceedings is Woody, a pull-string cowboy toy Read More

Slam Dunk Ernest

Actors: Jim Varney, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jay Brazeau, Cylk Cozart, Lester Barrie

Synopsis: Poor Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney). All he wants is to be a real basketball player on the amateur team with all the other janitors from his workplace. Unfortunately, they have all told him over and over that white guys like him just can't jump. That turns out to be true until he receives divine Read More

Your World As I See It

Actors: Jim Varney

The Expert

Actors: Jeff Speakman, James Brolin, Michael Shaner, Alex Datcher, Wolfgang Bodison

Synopsis: SWAT-Team instructor John Lomax's faith in the American justice system is shaken when the sociopath who murdered his sister is sentenced to life in a mental institution rather than to Death Row. Internal pressures upon Lomax mount when he is attacked by a mentally unstable woman desperately trying Read More

Ernest Goes to School

Actors: Jim Varney, Linda Kash, Bill Byrge, Kevin McNulty, Corrine Koslo

Synopsis: In this zany, slapstick comedy, earnest-but-dim high-school janitor Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) becomes much brighter after he tinkers with an experimental machine for boosting intelligence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ernest Rides Again

Actors: Jim Varney, Linda Kash, Tom Butler, Duke Ernsberger

Synopsis: Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) inadvertently finds the long-missing British crown jewels (the tower of London contains fake jewels, according to the film) after he stumbles over a half-buried cannon from the Revolutionary War on the campus of the university where he works. This dim-bulbed comedy 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

Wilder Napalm

Actors: Debra Winger, Dennis Quaid, Arliss Howard, M. Emmet Walsh, Jim Varney

Synopsis: After a childhood spat drove brothers Wilder (Arliss Howard) and Wallace (Dennis Quaid) apart, they went their separate ways, until a chance meeting brought them back together again. Gifted with a psychic ability to spark fires, Wilder supresses his gift, marries the lovely Vida (Debra Winger) Read More

Ernest Scared Stupid

Actors: Jim Varney, Austin Nagler, Shay Astar, Jonas Moscartolo

Synopsis: Ernest (Jim Varney) gets into deep trouble when he decides to build a treehouse for the neighborhood kid and accidentally digs up an ugly, evil-tempered troll who hates all children and shows it by promptly turning the five kids helping Ernest into wooden sculptures. This is the fourth entry in Read More

Ernest Goes to Jail

Actors: Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Bill Byrge, Barbara Bush, Barry Scott

Synopsis: In Ernest Goes to Jail, Jim Varney returns as leering idiot savant Ernest P. Worrall, star of scores of TV commercials and feature films. Varney also takes on a second role in the film: an unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer named Felix Nash. When Ernest serves on the jury for Nash's murder trial Read More

The Rousters

Actors: Chad Everett, Hoyt Axton, Jim Varney

Synopsis: Originally shot as a television series pilot, the made-for-television Rousters is about Wyatt Earp's great-grandson (Chad Everett) who is a bouncer for Captain Jack Slade's carnival in Sladetown. The carnival is upset when a rascal named Clayton drops by, looking to cause some trouble. ~ Stephen Read More

Fast Food

Actors: Clark Brandon, Randal Patrick, Tracy Griffith, Michael J. Pollard, Lanny Horn, Jim Varney, Traci Lords

Synopsis: Two wacky guys find both romance and fortune in the hamburger business in this comedy. Augie (Clark Brandon) and Drew (Randal Patrick) are a pair of longtime students at Hopkins University who've been making a living by pulling one semi-legal scam after another for years, but one day the dean (J. Don Ferguson Read More

Ernest Saves Christmas

Actors: Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker, Robert Lesser

Synopsis: When Santa Claus decides to retire, he appoints a washed-up kiddie show host (Douglas Seale) to take his place. Along the way, the real Santa ends up in the slammer on Christmas Eve, and it's up to goonish, glad-handing Ernest P. Worrall (Jim Varney) to bust him out. Varney plays a handful of Read More

Hey, Vern! It's Ernest [TV Series]

Actors: Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Bruce Arntson, Mac Bennett, Daniel Butler

Hey, Vern! It's Ernest: Sports

Actors: Jim Varney

Ernest Goes to Camp

Actors: Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, John Vernon, Iron Eyes Cody, Lyle Alzado

Synopsis: Ernest (Jim Varney) gets a job as a fix-it man at a summer camp for troubled boys, but what he really wants to be is a counselor. This juvenile comedy, filled with potty humor and slapstick, chronicles his campaign to get a promotion. A consummate bungler, he ends up causing all kinds of comical Read More

Win $10,000

Actors: Jim Varney

Dr. Otto & the Riddle of the Gloom Beam

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jim Varney, Myke R. Mueller, Jackie Welch, Daniel Butler, Esther Huston

Synopsis: This comedy is a showcase for Jim Varney (of "Hey Vern! It's your old buddy Ernest!" fame) who plays several different roles, including Laughin' Jack, Dr. Otto, Guy Dandy, and others. Dr. Otto is a crazed and evil scientist intent on becoming a world dictator. One of his plans is to send the Read More

The Ernest Film Festival

Actors: Jim Varney

Synopsis: Actor Jim Varney essays his fabled "Ernest P. Worrell" character in this video collection. It will be recalled that Ernest is the grinning, goonish protagonist of many a regional television commercial, hawking everything from convenience stores to newly created UHF TV outlets. Forever chattering Read More

Hey, Vern! It's My Family Album

Actors: Jim Varney

Synopsis: Jim Varney, also known as commercial spokesman/village idiot Ernest P. Worrell, stars in Hey Vern! It's My Family Album! Speaking at the top of his lungs to the unseen Vern (actually he's talking to "us"), Ernest introduces several of his less illustrious ancestors. If nothing else, this 57-minute Read More

Knowhutimean?

Actors: Jim Varney

Synopsis: If you like Jim Varney's doltish character Ernest P. Worrel, then you'll love this anthology comprised of Ernest's best commercials and as a special bonus, a series of skits chronicling Ernest's colorful family history. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pink Lady and Jeff: Episode 2

Alice: Better Never Than Late

Synopsis: While Mel (Vic Tayback) takes a snooze in the storeroom, Alice (Linda Lavin) is left alone to man (or woman) the counter on a Saturday night. Unfortunately, this is the same evening that the diner is visited by a nervous young man with a gun in his hand and larceny in his heart. The holdup man is Read More

Operation Petticoat

Synopsis: Life in the Pink is the syndication title of the pilot film for the TV series Operation Petticoat. Based on the 1959 movie of the same name, the series detailed the adventures of a jerry-built submarine in World War II. In the pilot, the sub's crew rescues five Army nurses from a remote Pacific Read More