John Ratzenberger Filmography

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Actors: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Jordan Nagai

Synopsis: A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

WALL-E

Actors: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Macintalk

Synopsis: Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been uninhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Read More

The Village Barbershop

Actors: John Ratzenberger, Shelly Cole, Cindy Pickett, George McRae, Amos Glick

Synopsis: Hair is the only thing two people have in common before they come into each other's lives in this independent comedy-drama. For thirty years, Arthur Leroldi (John Ratzenberger) has operated a barbershop with his business partner Enzo. Arthur is a fine barber, but Enzo is the member of the team Read More

Ratatouille

Actors: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn

Synopsis: A scrawny rat named Remy (voice of Patton Oswalt) finds his dreams of culinary superstardom stirring up sizable controversy in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant in director Brad Bird's madcap computer-animated comedy. It's hard being a rat with culinary aspirations, but Remy is convinced he Read More

Kickin' It Old Skool

Actors: Jamie Kennedy, Miguel A. Nuñez, Maria Menounos, Michael Rosenbaum, Bobby Lee

Synopsis: Rendered comatose for 20 years after a freak breakdancing accident, former child dancer Justin Schumacher (Jamie Kennedy) awakens from his extended repose with no motor skills and the mental capacity of a 12-year-old. So much has changed since Justin lapsed into a coma; not only have people Read More

Dancing With the Stars: Season 04

Cars

Actors: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: A pedal-to-the-metal race car determined to prove his worth on the tracks discovers that life isn't always about crossing the finish line first in Toy Story director John Lasseter's mechanically minded tale of friendship and loyalty. Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) may be just a rookie Read More

The Incredibles

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles revolves around former high-profile superhero Bob Parr (aka Mr. Incredible), who has not-so-successfully settled into suburban life along with his wife and kids under the watchful eye of the Superhero Protection Program. A far cry from the "glory days" Read More

Finding Nemo

Actors: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett

Synopsis: Andrew Stanton, who helped write Toy Story and Monsters, Inc., co-wrote and directed this computer-animated comedy-adventure about finding a very small fish in a very large ocean. Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks) is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son Read More

The Pennsylvania Miners' Story

Actors: J.D. Souther, Graham Beckel, William Mapother, Dylan Bruno, Robert Knepper

Synopsis: In July of 2002, nine men were trapped 240 feet below the ground in a Somerset, PA, coal mine. For the next 77 hours, the attention of a war-beleaguered and economically strapped America was focused upon the rescue efforts, despairing along with the miners' families when the shaft began to fill up Read More

Frasier: Cheerful Goodbyes

Actors: John Ratzenberger, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, Philip Perlman, Raye Birk

Synopsis: The cast of Frasier meets most of the cast of Cheers in this landmark episode. Arriving in Boston to deliver a speech at a conference, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) is reunited with his old drinking buddy Cliff (John Ratzenberger) -- who thinks that Frasier is in town to attend his retirement party. Read More

Monsters, Inc.

Actors: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn

Synopsis: After exploring the worlds of toys and bugs in the two Toy Story films and A Bug's Life, the award-winning computer animation company Pixar delves into the realm of monsters with its fourth feature. Hulking, blue-furred behemoth James P. "Sully" Sullivan (John Goodman) and his one-eyed assistant Read More

Spirited Away

Actors: Rumi Hiiragi, Daveigh Chase, Miyu Irino, Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette, Mari Natsuki, Yumi Tamai, Susan Egan, Yasuka Sawaguchi, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Master animation director Hayao Miyazaki follows up on his record-breaking 1997 opus Princess Mononoke with this surreal Alice in Wonderland-like tale about a lost little girl. The film opens with ten-year-old Chihiro riding along during a family outing as her father races through remote country Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Drew Live III

Synopsis: There has to be some explanation as to why a hung-over Drew (Drew Carey) has awakened in a Tennessee dog pound handcuffed to guest star John Ratzenberger). Laboriously putting the pieces together, Drew learns that he'd tried to commit suicide the night before, guilt-ridden for having done a Read More

Determination of Death

Synopsis: To escape his enormous gambling debts, the highly unlikable Reese Williams (Marc Singer) decides to fake his own death, with the help of his long-suffering wife, Katie (Michele Greene). Once Reese is safely "deceased," Katie will fall heir to a five-million-dollar insurance policy, which will help Read More

Touched by an Angel: Monica's Bad Day

Synopsis: In order to convince a skeptical cabbie that a tragedy will occur if she doesn't reach the Queensborough Bridge by 10 PM, Monica recalls the chain of disastrous events that led up to this crticial and anxious moment. It all started when a total stranger (Howard Hesseman) made a rude gesture to 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

A Fare To Remember

Actors: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Challen Cates, Stanley Kamel, Tracee Ellis Ross, Peter Birkenhead

Synopsis: Romance blooms during a very, very long cab ride in A Fare to Remember. Advertising executive Tamara Gault (Challen Cates) gets fast talked into taking an assignment for work on Christmas Eve, but she does so with an eye on the clock, as she needs to get from Seattle back to her home in Los Read More

A Bug's Life

Actors: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller

Synopsis: John Lasseter, director of Pixar's movie phenomenon Toy Story, has set new standards in computer animation with this effort, another Disney-released children's epic entitled A Bug's Life. Blending classic Disney storytelling characters and the mysterious underground world of bugs, Lasseter has Read More

Don't Stop Before You Get Started

That Darn Cat

Actors: Christina Ricci, Doug E. Doug, Dean Jones, George Dzundza, Dyan Cannon, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: The original Disney feature film, That Darn Cat, was a feel-good hit in 1965, thanks largely to stars such as Hayley Mills, Roddy McDowall, and William Demarest. This 1996 remake also closely follows the novel Undercover Cat by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon and features Christina Ricci in the Hayley Mills 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

Murphy Brown: A Rat's Tale

Synopsis: The "FYI" studio is moved to a ground-floor office, the better to accommodate a new weekly feature called "Window on America." As it turns out, the show's first guest is a rat that has invaded the studio. Plucky Murphy (Candice Bergen) catches the rat in full view of a crowd of Read More

Cheers: Norm's Big Audit

Crew: Director

Actors: Sharon Barr

Synopsis: Norm (George Wendt) goes into his soft soap act to dissuade hard-nosed IRS agent Dot Carroll (Sharon Barr) from auditing him. The canny Dot resists all of Norm's efforts -- except one. Meanwhile, Sam (Ted Danson) tries to prevent the Cheers gang from viewing a videotape of one of his less-inspired Read More

Wild West

Synopsis: A five-volume collection of some 3500 photos, sketches, and paintings of myths of the American West between the end of the Civil War to 1900. Includes first-person narratives, anecdotes, newspaper accounts, journals, and letters covering Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Read More

Cheers: The King of Beers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Norm's (George Wendt) wildest dream comes true when he is hired by a prestigious brewery as a beer taster. Meanwhile, a slot machine is mistakenly delivered to Cheers. The fact that the bar isn't supposed to have the machine does not prevent Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) from becoming hopelessly Read More

Cheers: Season 11

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Although Cheers had dropped from first to eighth place in the ratings from 1990 to 1992, its 11th and final season still enjoyed a very healthy viewership; in fact, its closing episode ranks as the fourth highest-rated series finale in TV history. Highlighting the show's climactic season was the Read More

Cheers: Season 10

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Picking up where season nine left off, the tenth season of Cheers began with Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) reluctantly agreeing to be the mother of Sam Malone's (Ted Danson) child. Romance did not enter into the picture: Both Rebecca and Sam were responding to the incessant ticking of their Read More

Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Deadly Waters

Synopsis: "Rain of Terror" and "Dead Seas" are the two episodes included in this video featuring the ecology-minded superhero. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Cheers: Head Over Hill

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Determined to get even with snooty landlord John Hill (Keene Curtis) once and for all, Sam (Ted Danson) pulls out his secret weapon of mass destruction by unleashing Carla (Rhea Perlman) on the hapless Hill. Things don't work out quite as planned, however, when Carla falls in love with the Read More

Cheers: Season 09

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Season nine of Cheers picked up where the eighth had left off, with Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) poised to consummate their newfound romance on the couch in Sam's office. "Interruptus" came in the form of Rebecca's billionaire boyfriend Robin Colcord (Roger Rees), now Read More

Camp Cucamonga

Actors: G. Gordon Liddy, John Ratzenberger

Synopsis: Familiar faces from television sitcoms abound in this kids-at-camp TV-movie. John Ratzenberger stars as Colonel Marv Schector, a former accountant who fulfills his life-long dream to run a summer camp. Typical teen shenanigans soon get underway, in the vein of 1985's Poison Ivy. G. Gordon Liddy Read More

Wings: The Story of Joe

Synopsis: A writer from "American Flyer" magazine is winging his way toward Nantucket, intending to interview Sandpiper Air owner Joe (Tim Daly). Unfortunately, the writer evinces more interest in the self-proclaimed exploits of Joe's brother Brian (Steven Weber). Meanwhile, two expatriates from Wings' Read More

Cheers: Season 08

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: As Cheers entered its eighth season, viewers began to wonder if the long-awaited romance between Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) would ever blossom. Certainly Rebecca had not backed down from her determination to marry into wealth, as witnessed by her torrid relationship Read More

Cheers: And God Created Woodman

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hoping to curry favor with Daniel Collier (Peter Hansen), chairman of the board of the corporation that owns Cheers, Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) and the staff cater a party for Collier. As humiliating as it is for Rebecca to play "serving wench," it is even more appalling when she accidentally breaks Read More

Cheers: Season 07

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Although, at 22 episodes, the seventh season of Cheers' was the series' shortest since 1983, there was no lack of fascinating plot developments nor any shortage of colorful new characters. Having lost her job as manager of Cheers, Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) swallowed her pride and went to work Read More

Going To the Chapel

Actors: John Ratzenberger, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: "It's the craziest wedding of the year!" promised the ads for the TV movie Going to the Chapel. Well, maybe not the craziest, but certainly the silliest. The thinnish plot concerns the roadblocks standing in the way of the impending wedding of Scott Valentine and Michelle Greene. As a means to Read More

House 2: The Second Story

Actors: Arye Gross, Jonathan Stark, Royal Dano, Lar Park Lincoln, Bill Maher, John Ratzenberger

Synopsis: This mundane sequel to New World Pictures' surprise horror hit bears little connection with its predecessor apart from the participation of writer Ethan Wiley, who also assumed directorial duties. This time around, the title abode is an old mansion inherited by the great-great-grandson of its Read More

Cheers: Season 06

Actors: Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Fans of Cheers greeted the series' sixth season in a heightened state of anticipation and anxiety: Now that series regular Shelley Long (Diane Chambers) had left the show, would her replacement be on the same lofty, laugh-getting level? And how would Cheers owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) respond to Read More

Timestalkers

Actors: William Devane, Lauren Hutton, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: The "history is inviolate" theory so chillingly elucidated in Ray Bradbury's The Sound of Thunder is recycled for the made-for-TV Timestalkers. William Devane plays a genially eccentric professor who teams with time traveller Lauren Hutton to prevent the course of history from being disastrously Read More

Combat High

Actors: Robert Culp, Keith Gordon, Wally Ward, George Clooney, Dana Hill

Synopsis: In this youthful film, to juvenile delinquents must spend a year in a military academy. They immediately begin driving their superior officers crazy. The film is also titled Combat Academy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cheers: Season 05

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Season five of Cheers opened with a resolution to the cliffhanger established at the end of season four, with Cheers' owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) finally proposing to mercurial waitress Diane Chambers (Shelley Long). This proposal, and several more like it, would be rejected throughout the Read More

Cheers: Season 04

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer

Synopsis: As in earlier years, the action in the first episode of Cheers' fourth season was driven by the plot lines left dangling during the previous one. Having ended their romance in Europe, Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) returned separately to Boston. Diane entered Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Legacy of Garwood Huddle

Synopsis: Veteran bank robber Garwood Huddle (Pat Hingle) escapes from prison--and since Garwood is an old friend of Higgins (John Hillerman), it is only logical that Magnum (Tom Selleck) should end up assisting Huddle in his flight. Fancying himself a modern-day Robin Hood, Huddle insists that he has Read More

Cheers: Season 03

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Nicholas Colasanto, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer

Synopsis: There was good news and bad news for Cheers during its third season. In the former category, the series continued to climb upward in the ratings (thanks largely to the goodwill engendered by NBC's most popular Thursday-night series The Cosby Show), sharing 12th place with ABC's Hotel. The sitcom Read More

Cheers: Season 02

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Nicholas Colasanto, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger

Synopsis: Just as everyone had anticipated throughout season one of Cheers, season two opened with Boston bar owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) and waitress Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) declaring their mutual passion. But romance does not always translate into love, and, after a turbulent 22 episodes, Sam and Read More

Battletruck

Actors: Michael Beck, Annie McEnroe, James Wainwright, John Ratzenberger, Randolph Powell

Synopsis: Harley Cokliss (second-unit director for The Empire Strikes Back) made his feature-film directing debut in this Mad Max-inspired action film. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic civilization carrying on after a war for oil has depleted the world's petroleum supplies. An outlaw army under Read More

Firefox

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman, Warren Clarke, Ronald Lacey

Synopsis: Producer/director/star Clint Eastwood takes his sweet time getting Firefox started. Eastwood plays Mitchell Gant, a past-his-prime U.S. pilot, smuggled into the Soviet Union to steal a new Russian supersonic fighting plane. Fortunately the KGB men are as burnt out as Gant, enabling him to abscond Read More

Gandhi

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the 188-minute, Oscar-winning Gandhi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. The film begins in Read More

Cheers: Season 01

Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Rhea Perlman, Nicholas Colasanto, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger

Synopsis: Seldom has a television sitcom opened with such assurance as Cheers. Within the very first episode, the basic setting was firmly established, the characters clearly drawn, and the interrelationships fully defined. Although there would be plenty of "fleshing out" over the next 11 seasons, Cheers Read More

Ragtime

Actors: James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Pat O'Brien, Donald O'Connor, James Olson, Mandy Patinkin, Howard E. Rollins, Jr.

Synopsis: E. L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime was a sprawling fictional account of American manners and mores in the years between 1900 and 1913. Among the mosaic of colorful factual and fictional characters in the novel were escape artist Harry Houdini and radical Emma Goldman. Both characters are all but Read More

Outland

Actors: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, Kika Markham

Synopsis: For Marshal O'Neil (Sean Connery), the Jupiter moon Io is just another dingy mining town on the final frontier. When his wife leaves him and takes their son with them, it merely confirms that though he's traveled millions of miles, his life is going nowhere. Then he notices that miners are dying Read More

The Empire Strikes Back

Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Kenny Baker

Synopsis: The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green-as-grass hero from the first film, now a seasoned space warrior. Luke's Star Wars cohorts Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) are likewise more experienced in the ways and means Read More

Motel Hell

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Paul Linke, Nancy Parsons, Nina Axelrod, Wolfman Jack

Synopsis: People come from far and wide to sample Farmer Vincent's distinctively flavored dried, smoked sausages, but one might well ask why there are so few people staying at his nearby motel. This horror comedy provides the graphic answer. It seems that the good farmer only uses the highest quality Read More

Superman II

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Between giving up his super powers, confronting criminals from outer space, and having problems with his girlfriend, it's a bad time to be the Man of Steel in this sequel to the 1978 blockbuster. When terrorists threaten to destroy Paris with a thermonuclear device as they hold reporter Lois Lane (Margot Kidder Read More

Arabian Adventure

Actors: Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Puncet Sira

Synopsis: This colorful, special-effects-laden adventure is the perfect cure for a rainy Saturday afternoon at home with the kids, or any other time the viewer is interested in having some mindless fun at the movies. It tells the story of a courageous prince who faces all sorts of danger to save his true Read More

Yanks

Actors: Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn, Vanessa Redgrave,