Paul SandFilmography

Born:: March 5, 1944 in Los Angeles, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A shy and withdrawn child, 11-year-old Paul Sanchez emerged from his shell upon joining Viola Spolin's Children's Theatre Workshop. Even at this early stage of the game, he was a gifted improvisational comedian, delighting friends and theatregoers alike with his inspired flights of fancy. After...Read More

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Sweet Land

Actors: Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Alan Cumming, Lois Smith, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: A European exile finds herself a stranger in a strange land when she comes to the United States in this independent romantic comedy-drama. As a man ponders what to do with his family's estate after the death of his grandmother, he thinks back to how she first came to America shortly after World Read More

10/13/06
Adam & Steve

Actors: Melinda Dillon, Julie Hagerty, Sally Kirkland, Paul Sand, Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Parker Posey, Chris Kattan

Synopsis: A forgotten one-night-stand from the 1980s sets the stage for romance fifteen years removed in director Craig Chester's urban romantic comedy starring Parker Posey, Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, and Chris Kattan. Despite the fact that neither Adam (Chester) nor Steve (Gets) recall the Read More

3/31/06
Chuck & Buck

Actors: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz

Synopsis: Following his critically acclaimed Star Maps, Miguel Arteta directs this perverse Odd Couple-esque comedy drama. Childhood best buddies Chuck and Buck are reunited after 18 years during the funeral of the latter's mother. Chuck (Chris Weitz who also produced American Pie (1999)) is a button-down Read More

7/14/00
Camp Stories

Actors: Jerry Stiller, Zachary Taylor, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: This comedic look at a Jewish summer camp in the 1950's stars Jason Biggs, Jerry Stiller, and Elliot Gould. For one small group of people, immigrant culture eventually finds its place among the tensions rumbling between sexes, generations, and cultures. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
Layin' Low

Actors: Jeremy Piven, Louise Lasser

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, a wastrel is helping his girlfriend move into a new apartment and accidentally stumbles into a drug theft gone awry that leaves his girlfriend dead and him literally holding the bag. Within that bag is a fortune in illegal narcotics and Jerry realizes that he has no choice Read More

1996
Frozen Assets

Actors: Shelley Long, Corbin Bernsen, Larry Miller, Dody Goodman, Gerritt Graham, Matt Clark

Synopsis: A rising young executive is ecstatic to learn that he is to be acting president at the small-town bank his company just purchased until he gets there and realizes that it is a sperm bank. This base little comedy centers on his attempts to make the place profitable and also chronicles the growing Read More

1992
Getting Up and Going Home

Synopsis: Based on Robert Anderson's novel, the made-for-television Getting Up and Going Home is a drama about a divorced attorney (Tom Skerritt) who copes with a mid-life crisis by having affairs with no less than three women: his ex-wife, a single mother, and a married suburbanite. ~ Stephen Thomas Read More

1992
Memories of Midnight

Synopsis: Adaptation of Sidney Sheldon's novel features an amnesiac who works to recover her identity and the Greek billionaire who works to make sure that she never does. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Night Court: The System Works

Synopsis: In a rare Sunday-night telecast of Night Court, Harry (Harry Anderson) agrees to teach a law class on a part-time basis. His first class proves quite an eye-opener thanks to a bizarre aggregation of students. And back in Night Court, Dan (John Larroquette) prompts courtroom artist Tommy Gamble Read More

1991
Justin Case

Synopsis: In this kooky, spooky comedy, a dead private detective comes back from the Great Beyond to investigate his own death. He enlists the aid of an unemployed actress. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Teen Wolf Too

Actors: Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand, James Hampton

Synopsis: Jason Bateman stars in this sequel to Teen Wolf as the original's cousin, Todd. Though not a boxer, he receives a college boxing scholarship, and upon discovering that he is afflicted with the same werewolf genetics, transforms from unremarkable to unbelievable. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

11/20/87
Magnum, P.I.: All Thieves on Deck

Synopsis: In order to flush out the person or persons who have attempted to steal a valuable statuette of the Hawaiian god Amakua, Magnum stage-manages a luxury cruise in which all the passenger roster consists of the principal suspects. Sure enough, murder and mayhem quickly ensue, and it soon becomes Read More

1986
The Last Fling

Actors: John Ritter, Connie Sellecca

Synopsis: John Ritter stars in this made-for-television comedy as a lonely philanderer who falls in love with a one-night-stand (Connie Sellecca) who is about to marry another man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
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

1985
Alice: Vera the Virtuoso

Synopsis: Vera (Beth Howland) has taken up playing the cello, even though her talent somewhat exceeds her enthusiasm. That said, the gang at Mel's diner (except for Alice [Linda Lavin], who barely appears in this episode) is in for a surprise when Vera is invited to join a local string quartet. The music Read More

1983
Taxi: Fledgling

Synopsis: In her capacity as a part-time art curator, Elaine (Marilu Henner) makes the acquaintance of Craig Egan (Paul Sand), a brilliant painter--and a severe agoraphobic. Hoping to coax Craig out of the "safety" of his apartment and into the world at large, Elaine offers to introduce him to her friends Read More

1981
Laverne & Shirley: Moving In

Synopsis: It's the "swinging sixties", and Laverne (Penny Marshall) has opted to defy convention by moving in with her boyfriend David (Paul Sand). This puts Laverne on the outs with her friend Shirley (Cindy Williams), especially since it is Shirley who must keep the situation a secret from Laverne's Read More

1981
Can't Stop the Music

Actors: Valerie Perrine, Ray Simpson, Steve Guttenberg, David Hodo, June Havoc, Felipe Rose, Barbara Rush, Randy Jones, 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

1980
Wholly Moses!

Actors: Dudley Moore, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Paul Sand, Jack Gilford

Synopsis: A broadly farcical comedy that attempts to ape the wickedly funny, Bible-spoofing humor of the previous year's Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979), this all-star rib-tickler top-lines Dudley Moore as Herschel, a historical also-ran whose life so closely parallels that of Moses that Herschel begins Read More

1980
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Synopsis: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a 1979 made-for-TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a delightfully nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. Read More

1979
The Main Event

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Paul Sand, Patti D'Arbanville, Whitman Mayo, Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal attempt to recapture the screwball spark of What's Up, Doc? in the labored farce The Main Event. Streisand plays Hillary Kramer, a bankrupt perfume executive who discovers that one of her tax write-offs from more prosperous times was the ownership of prizefighter Read More

1979
Once Upon a Brothers Grimm

Synopsis: In this musical fantasy, the Brothers Grimm, accompanied by some of their most famous creations, wander through a magical forest. Characters appearing include Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, and Rumpelstiltskin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
The Great Bank Hoax

Actors: Burgess Meredith, Richard Basehart, Ned Beatty, Charlene Dallas, Paul Sand

Synopsis: Shortly before the bank examiner is due to arrive, higher-ups at a small-town bank discover that a beloved long-term employee has embezzled $100,000. The embezzler (Paul Sand), says he did it just to point out a flaw in the bank's bookkeeping practices. Bank officers Jack and Emanuel (Burgess Meredith Read More

1977
The Second Coming of Suzanne

Actors: Gene Barry, Jared Martin, Paul Sand, Richard Dreyfuss, Sondra Locke

Synopsis: Based on a song by Leonard Cohen, this peculiar experimental film set in late-'60s San Francisco was executive-produced by game-show mogul Gene Barry, the director's father. It concerns Suzanne (Sondra Locke), who gets crucified in a film-within-a-film which receives much of the screen time. Read More

1974
Every Little Crook and Nanny

Actors: Phillip Graves, Katherine Victory, Lynn Redgrave, Victor Mature, Paul Sand, Maggie Byle, Austin Pendleton

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman's dancing school is overrun by gangster's who begin using it for a betting parlor. As a result, she becomes the nanny for the mob boss's son. Soon she kidnaps him. Trouble and action ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
The Hot Rock

Actors: Lynne Gordon, Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Zero Mostel

Synopsis: Peter Yates directs the early '70s comedy caper The Hot Rock, based on the Donald Westlake novel and adapted for the screen by William Goldman. Robert Redford stars as John Archibald Dortmunder, a former jewel thief just released from prison. His brother-in-law, Andrew Kelp (George Segal) Read More

1972
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

1969
A Great Big Thing

Actors: Reni Santoni, Paul Sand, Gerard Parkes

Synopsis: Reni Santoni, the talented star of Carl Reiner's Enter Laughing, heads the cast of this Canadian film. Santoni plays a luckless 23-year-old who has vague plans of becoming a novelist. Unwilling to do anything so mundane as getting a job, he begs, borrows and steals, driving even his best friends Read More

1968
Bewitched: Samantha For the Defense

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Erin Murphy, Diane Murphy

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story arc, the Stephenses are still playing host to Benjamin Franklin (Fredd Wayne), whom Aunt Clara has accidentally zapped into the 20th century. Fascinated with all the "new" technology around him, Ben decides to take a test ride on a fire engine and ends up Read More

1966
The Subterraneans

Actors: Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule, Roddy McDowall, Anne Seymour

Synopsis: Based rather loosely on a novel by Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans concerns a writer (played by George Peppard) who moves to San Francisco and falls in with a crowd of beatniks after falling in love with a French girl (Leslie Caron). The woman was black, not French, in Kerouac's novel, only the Read More

1960