Nancy WalkerFilmography

Can't Stop the Music

Crew: Director

Actors: Valerie Perrine, Ray Simpson, David Hodo, Steve Guttenberg, June Havoc, Felipe Rose, Randy Jones, Barbara Rush, Glenn R. Hughes, Leigh Taylor-Young, Bruce Jenner

Synopsis: Glitz producer Allan Carr tries to cash in on the late-'70s disco boom with Can't Stop the Music -- a film of such Brobdingnagian banality that it almost in itself stopped the disco movement cold. Comedienne Nancy Walker directed this musical chronicle, purporting to relate the legend of the Read More

Human Feelings

Synopsis: In this comedy, inspired by Oh, God! and designed as a pilot for a TV series, an ambitious young angel persuades the Almighty to allow seven days to find six good people in Las Vegas. If he cannot, God will destroy the whole town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rhoda: Season 05

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

Rhoda: Season 04

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder by Death

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). In Ten Little Indians fashion, the gathered sleuths are locked into the forbidding mansion, and subject to various Read More

Death Scream

Synopsis: The 1975 TV movie Death Scream is based on the shameful Kitty Genovese affair of 1964, in which a N.Y.C. woman was stabbed to death while 38 witnesses locked their windows and doors and pretended not to hear. Raul Julia stars as the detective who investigates the murder and stirs up the guilt Read More

Rhoda: Season 02

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, David Groh, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

McMillan and Wife: Requiem for a Bride

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Requiem for a Bride opens with San Francisco police commissioner McMillan (Rock Hudson) congratulating an old friend (Henry Darrow) on the friend's recent marriage. McMillan's words ring hollow when the bride (Susan Sullivan) is murdered. Complicating the issue is the growing Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 05

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: As McMillan and Wife launched its fifth season, the series remained a rotating component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, along with Columbo, McCloud, and McCoy. Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James reprise their familiar roles as San Francisco police commissioner "Mac" McMillan and his lovely wife Read More

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Write

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When Mary (Mary Tyler Moore) signs up for a creative writing course, co-worker Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) sees no reason that he should not do the same. But newsroom boss Lou Grant (Ed Asner) can think of several reasons when Ted begins writing his own news copy -- beginning with a "nightly moment of Read More

Thursday's Game

Actors: Bob Newhart, Gene Wilder

Synopsis: James L. Brooks' Thursday's Game is a witty made-for-television comedy about two businessmen (Bob Newhart and Gene Wilder) who meet every Thursday night to play poker and discuss their professional and personal problems. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 04

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Still a rotating component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie (along with Columbo, McCloud and Amy Prentiss) in the fall of 1974, the "domestic detective" series McMillan and Wife offered six new two-hour episodes for its fourth season. The opening episode is "Downshift to Danger," in which San Read More

Rhoda: Season 01

Actors: Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, David Groh, Nancy Walker, Harold Gould

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Just Friends

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Still reeling over the breakup of his marriage, Lou (Edward Asner) begins dropping over for dinner at Mary's apartment -- practically every night of the week, Sundays included. Though sympathetic to Lou's plight, Mary (Mary Tyler Moore) would do just about anything to get rid of him. And in this Read More

40 Carats

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Gene Kelly, Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: Adapted by Jay Presson Allen from the French farce by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, Forty Carats is a standard-issue sex comedy elevated by the performances of its stars. Fortyish Realtor Ann Stanley (Liv Ullman) finds herself attracted to Peter Latham (Edward Albert) - a man literally Read More

The Partridge Family: Aspirin at 7, Dinner at 8

Synopsis: This episode marks the return of Gerald Hiken in the role of pediatrician Bernie Applebaum, previously introduced in the Season Two entry "In 25 Words or Less". Making a concerted effort to win the hand and heart of Shirley Partridge (Shirley Jones), Dr. Applebaum succeeds only in making a Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 03

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Remaining a rotating component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie (along with Columbo, McCloud, and Hec Ramsey), the "domestic detective" series McMillan and Wife offered four new 90-minute episodes for its third season. The festivities begin as San Francisco police commissioner Stewart "Mac" Read More

The World's Greatest Athlete

Actors: Tim Conway, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Amos, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: One of the best of the early-1970s Disney farces, The World's Greatest Athlete stars Jan-Michael Vincent in the title role. A "wild boy" living off the land in the jungles of Africa, Vincent is discovered by coaches Tim Conway and John Amos. Cursed with a last-place college athletic lineup, Conway Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 02

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Seven 90-minute episodes of McMillan and Wife are served up during the series' second season as a rotating component of The NBC Mystery Movie. For the record, its "companion" series this season included Columbo, McCloud, and Hec Ramsey. In the opener, "The Night of the Wizard," San Francisco Read More

Stand up and Be Counted

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: This gag-filled movie makes a stab at examining the women's liberation movement but never quite gets there. The effects of the movement are shown through a series of comic and romantic episodes between men and women. The story is loosely tied together as the research of Sheila Hammond (Jacqueline Bisset Read More

Every Man Needs One

Synopsis: According to this cookie-cutter TV movie, every man needs a woman to put down his rampant chauvinism. Ken Berry is a swinging architect (yes, he has long sideburns) who doesn't believe that women should work. Enter Connie Stevens, a highly intelligent young lady whom Berry reluctantly hires as an Read More

Family Affair: Too Late, Too Soon

Synopsis: This episode focuses on the recurring character of housekeeper Emily Turner, played by the inimitable Nancy Walker). Even while trying to play matchmaker between butler Mr. French and nanny Miss Haversham (Heather Angel), Emily turns thumbs-down on a potential romance between her own Jim (Peter Read More

Family Affair: Cinder-Emily

Synopsis: The Davises are surprised when housekeeper Emily (Nancy Walker) announces that she has other plans on the night of her son Jim's graduation ball. Eventually, it is revealed that Emily is staying away from the ceremony because she doesn't want to embarrass Jim (Peter Duryea): She has no date, she Read More

McMillan and Wife: Season 01

Actors: Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Although McMillan and Wife had been introduced as a two-hour TV movie, Once Upon a Dead Man, on September 17, 1971, the series proper did not get underway under 12 days later, as one of the rotating components (along with McCloud and Columbo) of The NBC Mystery Movie. Having long resisted any sort Read More

Family Affair: Meet Emily

Synopsis: Nancy Walker makes her first series appearance as Emily Walker, who works as a cleaning lady in Bill's office. Aware that Emily is looking for a second job in order to finance her son's medical-school education, Bill invites her to work a housekeeper in his apartment. Inevitably, the brash Read More

Family Affair: It Can't Be Five Years

Synopsis: Contrary to the episode's title, it has indeed been five years since Buffy (Anissa Jones), Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) and Cissy (Kathy Garver) came to New York to live with their Uncle Bill (Brian Keith). In honor of this occasion, the kids have planned a surprise party for Bill--but alas, he's Read More

Max Liebman Presents: Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl

Synopsis: Returning to his musical comedy revue roots, Max Liebman, the guiding force behind the classic TV variety series Your Show of Shows, offered this lighthearted tribute to the female office workers of America. Drawing from popular songs, plays and movies that have dramatized the plight of the Read More

Lucky Me

Actors: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy, Jr., Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Lucky Me is a mixed-bag musical from Warner Bros., adhering to a tried-and-true formula that was wearing just a bit thin in 1954. Candy (Doris Day), Hap (Phil Silvers), Duke (Eddie Foy Jr.) and Flo (Nancy Walker) are four small-time performers who find themselves stranded in Miami. Forced to take Read More

The Buick-Berle Show [TV Series]

Popsicle Parade / The Red Skelton Show

Broadway Rhythm

Actors: George Murphy, Ginny Simms, Charles Winninger, Gloria de Haven, Lena Horne, Nancy Walker

Synopsis: The plot of the overinflated MGM musical Broadway Rhythm can be summed up briefly: Musical comedy producer Jonnie Demming (George Murphy) dismisses his vaudevillian dad Sam Demming (Charles Winninger) as old-fashioned. Jonnie signs Hollywood star Helen Hoyt (Ginny Simms) to a Broadway show, but Read More

Best Foot Forward

Actors: Lucille Ball, Tommy Dix, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler, Nancy Walker, June Allyson, Gloria de Haven

Synopsis: Five original cast members of the hit Broadway musical Best Foot Forward appear in this Technicolor MGM screen adaptation. Set at a small town military prep school, the story gets under way when movie star Lucille Ball (played by movie star Lucille Ball) pays a visit to the campus for publicity Read More

Girl Crazy

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, June Allyson, Nancy Walker, Gil Stratton, Robert E. Strickland, Rags Ragland

Synopsis: This second film version of the George and Ira Gershwin's Broadway hit Girl Crazy stars reigning MGM musical prince and princess Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. The 1932 version of Girl Crazy de-emphasized the main plot, building up the comic subplot involving a timorous temporary sheriff and a Read More