Kenneth MarsFilmography

The Land Before Time: The Big Freeze

Actors: Robert Guillaume, Kenneth Mars

Synopsis: The seventh sequel to Don Bluth's The Land Before Time is subtitled The Big Freeze. In this direct-to-video entry in the series, Littlefoot and friend sing new songs while experiencing an adventure involving a snowstorm. Fans of the other films in this warm-hearted family series can expect more of Read More

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

Actors: Jodi Benson, Sam Wright, Tara Charendoff, Pat Carroll, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: In this direct-to-video sequel to Disney's animated hit The Little Mermaid, Ariel (Jodi Benson) and Eric (Christopher Daniel Barnes) are the proud parents of a little girl named Melody (Tara Charendoff), who has begun to hear the call of the sea she has inherited from her mother. But wicked Read More

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

Actors: John Stamos, Joshua Malina, Shemar Moore, Gabrielle Anwar, Dorie Barton

Synopsis: This Yuletide-season TV movie reverses the standard "three girls on the make" formula of many an old 20th Century Fox movie, of which How to Marry a Millionaire is a choice example. This time out, a trio of enterprising young men decide to go on the prowl for rich wives, after first consulting a Read More

Runaway Virus

Actors: Paige Turco, Jason Beghe, Larry Drake, Kenneth Mars, Richard Cox

Synopsis: Based on "The Dead Zone," a magazine article by Malcolm Gladwell, the made-for-TV Runaway Virus pits a team of dedicated scientists against a deadly virus. A particularly nasty form of influenza, which leaves its victims with bloody noses and blackened feet before their inexorable demise, has Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Hello/Goodbye

Synopsis: With his parents still encamped in his house, Drew (Drew Carey) moves in with Lewis (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald (Diedrich Bader). Appalled by the boys' wretched living conditions, Drew joins them in their ongoing battle against their landlord (Kenneth Mars). As a result, all three are evicted, and Read More

Citizen Ruth

Actors: Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston

Synopsis: The divisive issue of abortion is at the center of Citizen Ruth, a political satire that attempts to subject both pro-choice and pro-life forces to equal ridicule. Laura Dern portrays Ruth Stoops, an irresponsible, unemployed woman who's addicted to inhaling household chemicals and has becomes Read More

The Land Before Time IV: The Journey Through the Mists

Actors: Candy Hutson, Heather Hogan, Rob Paulsen, Jeff Bennett, Kenneth Mars

Synopsis: In this lively animated feature, Littlefoot and his cute cadre of prehistoric pals embark on another colorful adventure that is aimed at younger children. This time, the rambunctious reptiles ignore warnings and go stomping off into unexplored territory to find a rare flower. Littlefoot needs it Read More

Party of Five: Personal Demons

Synopsis: With this episode, Alexondra Lee becomes a series regular in the role of Callie Martel, the flamboyant roommate of college freshman Bailey Salinger (Scott Wolf). Though Bailey has sworn to be faithful to girlfriend Sarah (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Callie proves to be a temptation too strong to Read More

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: The Alchemist

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

Synopsis: The Philosopher's Stone, which is said to have the power to turn base metals into gold, is located by Dr. Quest, only to be stolen by Quest's duplicitous partner. The villain then kidnaps Jonny, Jessie, and Hadji, intending to use their Purity of Heart to activate the precious Stone. Those Read More

The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving

Actors: Jeff Bennett, Linda Gary, Nicholas Guest, Whitby Hertford, Heather Hogan

Synopsis: In this third installment of the animated saga of a young brontosaurus and his pals, trouble has come to the Great Valley in the form of a meteorite. It fell just beyond the valley and now blocks the main water supply. As the land dries and thirst increases, the different species of dinosaurs who Read More

Thumbelina

Actors: Jodi Benson, Carol Channing, Charo, Gino Conforti, Barbara Cook

Synopsis: The voices of Carol Channing, John Hurt, Jodi Benson and Gilbert Gottfried help bring this wonderful Hans Christian Andersen story to life. Barry Manilow contributed heavily to the film's music. Children still seem to enjoy this story about a young girl who was the size of a human thumb. She was Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Shadowplay

Synopsis: Following up a series of strange sensor readings, Odo and Dax are drawn to an unknown planet. Here they are taken prisoner by a Yaderan colony, where several inhabitants have disappeared without explanation. As Odo and Dax endeavor to solve the mystery (and to plan their escape), back at DS9, Kira Read More

The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure

Actors: Jeff Bennett, Linda Gary, Heather Hogan, Candy Hutson, John Ingle, Kenneth Mars

Synopsis: The first sequel to Don Bluth's popular The Land Before Time furthers the adventures of Littlefoot and his pals, who by this time are living in the Great Valley. The young dinos' adventures begin when they set out to prove how grown up they are by solving the mystery of an egg thief. Read More

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

Actors: John Goodman, Blaze Berdahl, Rhea Perlman, Jay Leno, Rene LeVant

Synopsis: In this animated children's film from Amblin Entertainment, a group of four dinosaurs, including a tyrannosaurus rex, a triceratops, a hadrosaur, and a pterodactyl, are brought forward in time to New York City to entertain and befriend the children. However, when the dinosaurs are threatened by an Read More

Shadows and Fog

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Madonna, Kathy Bates, Lily Tomlin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death Read More

A Different World: Honeymoon in L.A., Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of A Different World's two-part Season Six opener, Whitley (Jasmine Guy and Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) continue to recall their chaotic honeymoon in riot-torn Los Angeles. At the same time, the couple's friends react to the violence (inspired by the infamous Rodney King verdict) in Read More

Son of Dinosaurs

Synopsis: Two men attempt to protect a living dinosaur embryo from a villainous coveter. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

I'll Take Romance

Actors: Linda Evans, Tom Skerritt, DeLane Matthews, Larry Poindexter, Kenneth Mars, Heather Tom, Michael McGrady, Alan Blumenfeld

Synopsis: I'll Take Romance has nothing to do with the old Grace Moore musical film of the same name. Rather, this 1990 TV movie is about a publicity contest. Dressed in Joan Crawford Chic, Linda Evans plays a Seattle TV meteorologist, assigned to host a contest to find the most romantic man in Puget Sound. Evans Read More

The Little Mermaid

Actors: Jodi Benson, Pat Carroll, Sam Wright, Kenneth Mars, Buddy Hackett

Synopsis: Disney's The Little Mermaid was the first in a series of blockbusters that restored the venerable firm's reputation as the world's premiere animated-feature factory. The title character is a precocious teenager named Ariel, the daughter of Triton, king of the Sea. Against her dad's wishes, Ariel Read More

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Actors: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey

Synopsis: Who do you send after a gang of stump-dumb crooks? Who else but the most intellectually-challenged police force in America, in the sixth installment of the Police Academy series. The Wilson Heights Gang, three thieves whose success as criminals is in inverse proportion to their outwardly-displayed Read More

Get Smart, Again!

Actors: Dave Ketchum, Bernie Kopell, King Moody, Dick Gautier, Don Adams, Barbara Feldon

Synopsis: The second feature-length revival of the Get Smart television series (1965-1970) of blessed memory, Get Smart Again reunited Don Adams as bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart and Barbara Feldon as his wife, sultry "fellow" agent 99. Smart coerces 99 to drop her public-sector job and join him in Read More

Illegally Yours

Actors: Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp, Kenneth Mars, L.B. Straten, Harry Carey, Jr., Kim Myers

Synopsis: Rob Lowe stars in this screwball comedy as Richard Dice, the college dropout who comes back home to St. Augustine, Florida to get his act together. He is selected for jury duty and falls for the defendant Molly Gilbert (Colleen Camp), a young woman he later recognizes as his grade-school Read More

For Keeps

Actors: Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: Young, ambitious high school students Darcy Elliot (Molly Ringwald) and Stan Bobrucz (Randal Batinkoff) have a hitch thrown into their plans to attend college and pursue professional careers when they discover that Darcy is pregnant. Deciding against abortion or adoption, the couple decides to Read More

Rented Lips

Actors: Martin Mull, Dick Shawn, Jennifer Tilly, Edy Williams, Robert Downey, Jr.

Synopsis: A pair of naive documentarians find themselves in over their heads when they agree to finish an "art film" for the head of a local public television station in exchange for a chance to direct a documentary on Indian farming techniques. Comical situations ensue when they discover that "Halloween in Read More

Radio Days

Actors: Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Josh Mostel, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini's Amarcord filtered through Neil Simon. The nominal star is Seth Green as Joe, a teenage Jewish boy, growing up with a house full of relatives in Brooklyn. Allen cuts Read More

The Adventures of an American Rabbit

Actors: Bob Arbogast, Pat Freley, Barry J. Gordon, Lew Horn

Synopsis: In an entertaining animated children's film for the youngest moppets only (no adult double takes here) a red, white, and blue rabbit miraculously appears to save the day like "Superhare." When not zooming about on roller skates, his special powers lie hidden in a mild-mannered alter ego named Rob Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Footnote to Murder

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is among those in attendance at a literary awards convention when murder strikes. The victim is a novelist who had showed up toting a rather volatile unpublished manuscript. Although Jessica is not among the suspects, one of her close friends is under suspicion, obliging Read More

Misfits of Science

Synopsis: This sci-fi outing is the pilot for a short-lived television series and chronicles the adventures of a gang of unusually talented teens. One uses his mind to control others, another is a wizard at cryogenics, while the other two can manipulate electrical energy and make things change sizes. This Read More

Fletch

Actors: Chevy Chase, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Tim Matheson, Joe Don Baker, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: Chevy Chase added a classic comic hero to the film landscape with Fletch, one of his few truly popular star vehicles in a famously misguided post-Saturday Night Live career. Chase plays Irwin M. Fletcher, known to everyone as Fletch, a Los Angeles Lakers-loving investigative reporter with a Read More

Beer

Actors: Loretta Swit, Rip Torn, Kenneth Mars, David Alan Grier, William Russ

Synopsis: The self-aggrandizing world of Madison Avenue advertising is the subject of this clichéd, sexist satire that features a cynical ad executive (Loretta Swit) and her minions who choose three regular Joes to represent the Norbecker Beer company in a new ad campaign. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Fragments

Synopsis: Samantha Eggar guest stars as psychic Laura Bennett, who has been experiencing eerie visions of her own murder. Though skeptical about Laura's ability to foretell the future, Magnum agrees to provide protection to the woman, while simultaneously attempting to collect his fee from a shifty previous Read More

Protocol

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: In this routine spoof of government and media foibles, Sunny (Goldie Hawn) is an ordinary cocktail waitress, someone who graduated in the top 75% of her class. When she dramatically prevents the assassination of a visiting dignitary, an Emir (Richard Romanus) from an Arab country. the event puts Read More

Yellowbeard

Actors: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Tommy Chong, Eric Idle, Peter Cook

Synopsis: This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at the box-office, for despite it's all-star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely co-written by "Monty Python"-veteran Graham Chapman Read More

Prince Jack

Actors: Robert Hogan, James F. Kelly, Kenneth Mars, Lloyd Nolan, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: This pseudo-documentary on the life of President John F. Kennedy stars Robert Hogan as the President, James F. Kelly as Robert Kennedy, and Kenneth Mars as Lyndon Johnson, and includes some actual documentary footage intercut with the major dramatic events in Kennedy's Presidential career. Because Read More

Full Moon High

Actors: Adam Arkin, Roz Kelly, Elizabeth Hartman, Ed McMahon, Kenneth Mars

Synopsis: This oddball werewolf outing from hit-and-miss genre auteur Larry Cohen details the comic misadventures of Tony Walker (Adam Arkin, son of Alan), a former high-school jock who is transformed into a werewolf during a family visit to Transylvania. Cursed with immortality, Tony is able to return to Read More

Alice: Mel Wins By a Nose

Synopsis: Mel (Vic Tayback) must undergo minor surgery for a deviated septum. While at the hospital, Mel wonders if it might be worth it to have a full-scale nose job--an idea which gives pause not only to the doctor (Kenneth Mars), but also to Mel's waitresses. And by the way, take a close look at that old Read More

The Rules of Marriage

Synopsis: In this domestic drama, a the marriage of a suburban couple crumbles on the eve of their 15th anniversary. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Woman on the Beach

Synopsis: Rick (Larry Manetti) falls in love with Sara Clifford (Judith Chapman), whom he meets while walking along the beach--and who abruptly disappears just as she and Rick are getting acquainted. Investigating, Magnum (Tom Selleck) is informed by Higgins (John Hillerman) that Sara Clifford committed Read More

For Heaven's Sake

Synopsis: An angel helps a struggling basketball team and especially one player who wishes to regain his former glory in order to earn the respect of his 9-year-old son. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again

Actors: Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Ruth Buzzi, Tim Matheson, Kenneth Mars, Elyssa Davalos

Synopsis: Tim Conway and Don Knotts, mere supporting characters in the original Apple Dumpling Gang, are promoted to starring roles in the 1979 sequel The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again. Once more cast as clumsy, soft-hearted western outlaws, Conway and Knotts come to the rescue of cavalry private Tim Matheson Read More

Before and After

Actors: Patty Duke, Bradford Dillman, Barbara Feldon, Betty White, Art Hindle

Synopsis: The "before" version of Patty Duke is obese and slovenly. Emerging from a "fat farm," the "after" version of Patty Duke discovers that her husband (Bradford Dillman) has been playing the field while she's been trying to shed her excess poundage. Duke then takes up with a handsome artist (Art Hindle Read More

Goin' Coconuts

Actors: Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Herb Edelman, Kenneth Mars, Chrystin Sinclaire

Synopsis: The toothsome singing duo, Donny and Marie Osmond, head for Hawaii in this comedy. The trouble begins when Marie acquires a lovely necklace without realizing that it is coveted by a group of thieves. An enigmatic woman is also after the necklace. Mayhem, music, and sibling rivalry ensue. ~ Sandra Read More

Alice: The Odd Couple

Synopsis: The title of this episode should give us an idea of what we're in for when Flo's trailer is stolen, leaving her homeless. The soul of generosity and hospitality, Alice (Linda Lavin) invites Flo (Polly Holliday) to stay at her place for a while. Big mistake! Not only is Flo a female "Oscar Read More

Night Moves

Actors: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Susan Clark

Synopsis: Private eye Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) is dedicated to his job, but his dedication does not make him happy or powerful in his personal life, and his wife (Susan Clark) is cheating on him. Aging actress Arlene Iverson (Janet Ward) hires Harry to find her trust-funded daughter Delly (Melanie Griffith Read More

Someone I Touched

Synopsis: Cloris Leachman plays a pregnant woman whose husband contracts a venereal disease from a teen he has been having an affair with. ~ Kristie Hassen, 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

Young Frankenstein

Actors: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Lending his burlesque touch to 1970s genre revision, Mel Brooks followed his hit "western" Blazing Saddles with this parody of 1930s Universal horror movies. Determined to live down his family's reputation, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (co-screenwriter Gene Wilder) insists on pronouncing his name Read More

The Parallax View

Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his Read More

Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed?

Synopsis: There's little chance that the made-for-TV Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed? will ever be confused with either Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (67) or Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (63). The plot: Dean Jones divorces Barbara Eden, but finds that he can't live in the style to which he's accustomed Read More

Paper Moon

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, P.J. Johnson

Synopsis: The year is 1936. Orphaned Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal, in her film debut) is left in the care of unethical travelling Bible salesman Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's dad), who may or may not be her father. En route to Addie's relatives, Moses learns that the 9-year-old is quite a handful: she Read More

Ironside: Ollinger's Last Case

Synopsis: After receiving a strange, plaintive phone call from his old friend and colleague Ted Ollinger, Ironside (Raymond Burr) sends his assistant Ed Brown (Don Galloway) to the small town of Grant Bay to investigate. Upon arrival, Ed finds that Ollinger has disappeared, and that most of the local Read More

Steambath

Actors: Bill Bixby, Jose Perez, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: Bruce Jay Friedman's acclaimed off-Broadway play, which offers a decidedly unusual perspective on the afterlife, is brought to the screen in this production originally created for public television. Tandy (Bill Bixby) is a New York Police Department employee who suddenly and unexpectedly finds Read More

What's Up, Doc?

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth Mars, Austin Pendleton, Sorrell Booke

Synopsis: With Howard Hawks's Bringing Up Baby (1938) as his blueprint, Peter Bogdanovich resurrected and payed homage to 1930s screwball comedy in What's Up, Doc? (1972). When wacky co-ed Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand, in the Katharine Hepburn part) spies nebbishy musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal Read More

Second Chance

Synopsis: Brian Keith plays a wealthy stockbroker who purchases dusty Nevada ghost town. Remembering his own humble roots, Keith sets up the town as a community where life's losers can congregate. Here these unfortunates are afforded a "second chance"-which also happens to be the name of the town. If this Read More

Desperate Characters

Actors: L.J. Davis, Gonzalee Ford, Shanueille Ryder

Synopsis: Frank D. Gilroy's adaptation of Paula Fox's novel Desperate Characters stars Shirley MacLaine as Sophie, a freelance book translator who leads a comfortable life in Brooklyn with her lawyer husband Otto (Kenneth Mars). Because of their crumbling marriage and the threatening presence of urban Read More

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones

Synopsis: Opening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of the outlaws' last months. Witty pals Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with Read More

The April Fools

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Virtually the first third of The April Fools takes place at a trendy party held by sharkish executive Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford). It is here that Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon), one of Gunther's employees, makes the acquaintance of the boss' lovely young trophy wife Catherine (Catherine Deneuve). Read More

Viva Max!

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, Jonathan Winters, John Astin, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: This comedy was banned in Mexico and plagued by vandalism and threats of violence during film production in San Antonio, Texas. General De Santos (Peter Ustinov) organizes a ragtag group of Mexican nationals for the purpose of retaking the Alamo. Using the Washington's Birthday Parade in Laredo as Read More

He & She: Season 03

Actors: Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jack Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Hamilton Camp, Harold Gould

He & She: Season 02

Actors: Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jack Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Hamilton Camp, Harold Gould

The Producers

Actors: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renée Taylor

Synopsis: Theatrical producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) was once the toast of Broadway. Now he lives in his seedy office, cadging cash contributions from wealthy old ladies in exchange for sexual favors. Even worse, he's reduced to wearing a cardboard belt. Max's new accountant, Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) Read More

He & She: Season 01

Actors: Paula Prentiss, Richard Benjamin, Jack Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Hamilton Camp, Harold Gould