Michael RichardsFilmography

The Michael Richards Show [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Richards, William Devane, Bill Cobbs, Tim Meadows

Synopsis: According to the original publicity packets, the avowed purpose of the NBC sitcom The Michaels Richards Show was to persuade viewers that there was more to star Richards than his familiar Seinfeld characterization of nutty next-door neighbor Kramer. The first pilot, however -- filmed on location Read More

David Copperfield

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of the BBC's multipart 1999 adaptation of Charles Dickens' semiautobiographical novel David Copperfield came this American-financed version, prepared for the TNT cable network as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Child actor Max Dolbey and adult performer Hugh Dancy share the Read More

Trial and Error

Actors: Michael Richards, Jeff Daniels, Charlize Theron, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Wentworth, Jessica Steen, Rip Torn, Austin Pendleton, Lawrence Pressman, Max Casella, Dale Dye

Synopsis: This comedy features TV's Seinfeld regular Michael Richards in his first starring role, opposite Jeff Daniels. Daniels plays Charlie Tuttle, an up-and-coming attorney engaged to Tiffany Whitfield (Alexandra Wentworth), the daughter of the law firm's boss (Lawrence Pressman). His boss sends him to Read More

Seinfeld: Season 09

Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards

Synopsis: Rumors that the ninth season of Seinfeld would be the last were confirmed halfway through that season by Jerry Seinfeld himself. Though the series was still TV's top-rated show, Seinfeld was determined to quit while ahead, stop while on top, yada yada yada....And while some fans were complaining Read More

Seinfeld: Season 07

Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards

Synopsis: Season seven of Seinfeld maintains the series' brilliance almost from the outset, with an episode in which George (Jason Alexander) renews his relationship with Susan Biddle Ross (Heidi Swedberg) -- a relationship from which, ultimately, only one will emerge alive. Elsewhere, Kramer (Michael Richards Read More

Seinfeld: Season 08

Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards

Synopsis: A few sensitive viewers bailed out on Seinfeld at the end of season seven, in response to George's (Jason Alexander) apathetic reaction to the "death by envelope" of his fiancée, Susan. Others realized that a "show about nothing" can do just about anything, and thus stuck with Seinfeld as it Read More

Unstrung Heroes

Actors: Andie MacDowell, John Turturro, Michael Richards, Maury Chaykin, Nathan Watt

Synopsis: Diane Keaton made her directorial debut with this drama, adapted from the autobiographical novel of sportswriter Franz Lidz. Lidz's story was set in his New York childhood and told of how living with his four eccentric uncles helped him overcome his grief at the death of his beloved mother. The Read More

Seinfeld: Season 06

Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards

Synopsis: With five brilliant seasons in the can (including the now-legendary seasons four and five), Seinfeld keeps up the pace, and then some, as the series enters its sixth year on the air. Things get off to a lively start with "The Chaperone," in which Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) persuades Kramer (Michael Richards Read More

Airheads

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna, Chris Farley

Synopsis: Airheads is a variation on Dog Day Afternoon, as well as a comic look at the trials and tribulations of both the music business and Generation X. A hapless rock trio consisting of Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler) hits a brick wall with their attempts to get their Read More

Seinfeld: Season 05

Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards

Synopsis: Though it may have seemed impossible for Seinfeld to top the brilliance of its fourth season ("They're real -- and they're spectacular"; "Not that there's anything wrong with that"; "Her name rhymes with a female body part"; and the immortal "Are you master of your own domain?"), season five of Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: End of the Season

Synopsis: Though Larry vehemently refuses to admit that he has a problem, Artie (Rip Torn) and Roseanne stage an intervention after realizing that Larry's (Garry Shandling) addiction to painkillers is spiraling out of control. While Artie and Roseanne hold Larry at home and force him to quit cold turkey 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

Seinfeld: Season 04

Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards

Synopsis: Even though it's supposed to be the "show about nothing," Seinfeld actually provides something of a continuity from one episode to the next throughout its fourth season. Things get started with the two-part "The Trip," in which Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) and George (Jason Alexander) head to California Read More

So I Married an Axe Murderer

Actors: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer, Brenda Fricker, Charles Grodin

Synopsis: Comic actor and former Saturday Night Live stock player Mike Myers attempted to transform himself from the goofy title character in Wayne's World (1992) (and its sequel) into a romantic leading man with this box office disappointment. Myers stars as Charlie Mackenzie, a San Francisco poet who Read More

Seinfeld: Season 03

Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards

Synopsis: After two "mini-seasons" of six and 12 episodes each, Seinfeld finally gets off the ground in season three, toting up a whole 23 episodes -- and are they beauties! Things get off to a rousing start with "The Note," in which Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) prevails upon his dentist to commit insurance fraud Read More

Mad About You: The Apartment

Synopsis: The time has come for Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) to draw up their last will and testament. Deciding who will get what is difficult enough to begin with, and virtually impossible when Paul exhibits reluctance to give up his old bachelor pad. After all, it is hard to part with Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: The Flirt Episode

Synopsis: A playful female guest puts Larry (Garry Shandling) in hot water with his wife, Jeannie (Megan Gallagher), in the sixth episode of HBO's popular behind-the-scenes late-night talk show satire The Larry Sanders Show. Comely actress Mimi Rogers may have only intended her innocent on-air flirtation Read More

Seinfeld: Season 02

Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards

Synopsis: Quite a lot happens in the "show about nothing" during season two of Seinfeld -- even though only 12 episodes were produced. For starters, there's the opening episode, "The Ex-Girlfriend," the one in which Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) doesn't want to get mixed up with the former girlfriend of George (Jason Alexander Read More

Problem Child

Actors: John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Amy Yasbeck, Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden

Synopsis: An adoptive parent discovers that some children are given up by their biological parents for very good reasons in this dark comedy. Ben Healy (John Ritter) is a pleasant but brow-beaten yuppie working for his father Big Ben (Jack Warden), a tyrannical sporting goods dealer. Ben would love to have Read More

Seinfeld: Season 01

Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards

Synopsis: Before taking off and becoming one of the most popular and critically acclaimed sitcoms in the history of television, Seinfeld was just a little show about nothing, still struggling to find an audience. In its first season, viewers were introduced to the principal quartet of Jerry (Jerry Read More

UHF

Actors: Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Richards, Kevin McCarthy, Anthony Geary, Victoria Jackson, David Bowe

Synopsis: UHF is the film debut of comedy-rock satirist Weird Al Yankovic, who also co-wrote the screenplay. George Newman (Yankovic) and his friend, Bob (David Bowe from The Cable Guy), are fired from their jobs at Burger World. So George decides to take over channel 62, a failing local TV station that his Read More

Whoops Apocalypse

Actors: Loretta Swit, Peter Cook, Rik Mayall, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Tipping the scales on the Monty Python-esque side of broad comedy, this outrageous and classically British farce is a series of episodes involving the U.S., a small Caribbean nation, the British government, and the military. The American president is a former clown who dies after asking someone to Read More

Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Darlin' Clementine

Actors: Shelley Duvall, David Dukes, Ed Asner, Michael Richards

Synopsis: No relation to the similarly titled John Ford film, My Darlin' Clementine originated as a 47-minute TV special. Shelley Duvall (who also produced) plays the title character, the daughter of a miner (forty-niner) whose shoes are number nine. Ed Asner costars as Clementine's dad, while David Dukes Read More

Transylvania 6-5000

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley, Jr., Joseph Bologna, Carol Kane, John Byner, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: In a plot that combines Mary Shelley's mad Dr. Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Count Dracula, two yellow journalism reporters, Jack and Gil (Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley, Jr.) head off to a castle in Transylvania. The intrepid duo is out to hunt down a story that proves Frankenstein's "monster" is Read More

Cheers: Bar Bet

Synopsis: Future Seinfeld regular Michael Richards shows up in this episode as Sam's former bar buddy Eddie Gordon. Back during his drinking days, Sam (Ted Danson) bet Eddie that he would wed Jacqueline Bisset within one year, or else forfeit ownership of Cheers to Eddie. The year has passed and Eddie shows Read More

The Mogul

Actors: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Gerritt Graham, Kevin McCarthy, Jayne Meadows

Synopsis: Made for cable television, The Ratings Game was directed by Danny DeVito, who co-starred in the film with his wife Rhea Perlman. DeVito plays the owner of a New Jersey trucking firm who yearns for a televison career. He offers several TV-series ideas to a receptive network programming head. On the Read More

Night Court: Take My Wife, Please

Synopsis: Denice Kumagai makes her first appearance as Quon Le, a sweet and incredibly naïve young woman whom Army veteran Max (Charlie Robinson) had helped during the Vietnam war. Showing up in New York, Quon Le makes a beeline to Max--who takes it upon himself to do "the right thing" once more, this time Read More

Young Doctors in Love

Actors: Michael McKean, Sean Young, Harry Dean Stanton, Patrick Macnee, Hector Elizondo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their blunders. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More