Phil Foster Filmography

Born:: March 29, 1913 in Brooklyn, NY
Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Fivel Feldman
Biography:: American actor Phil Foster started out as a stand-up comedian when he was quite young. Most of his early routines were slapstick, and the material was drawn from his life growing up in a Brooklyn neighborhood. After working the nightclub circuit through the 1940s, Foster began appearing on...Read More

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Sno-Line

Actors: Paul L. Smith, June Wilkinson, Phil Foster, Louis Guss

Synopsis: In an unusual move, this gangster story features no good guys, telling its tale strictly within the confines of the mob. Steve King (Vince Edwards) is trying to gain control of the cocaine market in one region of his home state of Texas. After borrowing money from a New York mobster, he plans on Read More

1985
Laverne & Shirley: Season 08

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Eddie Mekka, Michael McKean, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Laverne & Shirley was Laverne & Shirley in name only as the series entered its eighth and final season. For a variety of reasons, chief among them her feelings that she was being overshadowed by co-star Penny Marshall (Laverne) and that the producers were insensitive to the work limitations Read More

1983
Laverne & Shirley: Councilman DeFazio

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Outraged when graft-happy Congressman Pike (Shecky Greene) announces plans to tear down Cowboy Bill's in order to construct a high-rise office building, Frank (Phil Foster) decides to run against Pike in an upcoming election. Unfortunately, Frank is easily trounced by his opponent during a TV Read More

1983
Laverne & Shirley: Season 07

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Here's the status quo as Laverne & Shirley enters its seventh season. Ex-Milwaukeeans Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) are still living in Burbank, CA, still working at Bardwell's Department Store, and still trying to break into the movies. The girls' zany pals Lenny (Michael McKean Read More

1982
Laverne & Shirley: Season 06

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: To counteract a precipitous drop in its ratings during its previous season, Laverne & Shirley launched season six by shifting the series' locale from Milwaukee, WI, to Burbank, CA. Fired from their jobs when Shotz Brewery decides to switch to automation, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams Read More

1981
Laverne & Shirley: Season 05

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Season five of Laverne & Shirley begins with the conclusion of a two-part story inaugurated on its "sister" series Happy Days: "Shotgun Wedding, Part 2," wherein big-hearted Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) become engaged to hapless teenagers Richie (Ron Howard) and Potsie (Anson Williams Read More

1980
The Great American Traffic Jam

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV farce, the urban phenomenon of the traffic jam and the effect it has on the lives of the participants is examined. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Laverne & Shirley: Season 04

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Eddie Mekka, Michael McKean, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Season four of Laverne & Shirley found the series' time frame progressing from the late '50s to the early '60s. The season opener is the two-part "Festival," wherein Laverne (Penny Marshall), Shirley (Cindy Williams), and the other series regulars leave their familiar Milwaukee environs for a trip Read More

1979
Laverne & Shirley: Season 03

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: When Laverne & Shirley signed on in January of 1976, America's top-rated program was Happy Days -- of which Laverne & Shirley was, of course, a spin-off. By the time the last-named series entered its third season, it had climbed to the coveted number one slot, while Happy Days had retreated to Read More

1978
Laverne & Shirley: Breaking Up and Making Up

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The budding romance between Laverne's widowed father Frank (Phil Foster) and five-time divorcee Edna (Betty Garrett) is threatened when the most recent of Edna's ex-husbands, a guy named Johnnie (Kirk Duncan), comes back into her life. Out of pique, Frank breaks off with Edna seeks out a new lady Read More

1978
Having Babies 3

Actors: Jamie Smith Jackson, Michael Lembeck, Rue McClanahan

Synopsis: This third entry in the made-for-TV Having Babies saga was first telecast March 3, 1978. Susan Sullivan heads the cast as Dr. Julie Farr, presiding over three impending births. In true soap-opera fashion, Dr. Farr cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients. Marnie Bridges (Jamie Smith Jackson Read More

1978
The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington

Actors: Joey Heatherton, George Hamilton, Ray Walston, Rip Torn, Jack Carter, Phil Foster

Synopsis: When a sex scandal threatens to blow the top off Washington politics, celebrated madame and advice columnist Xaviera Hollander (Joey Heatherton) is drawn into the fray. The hooker at the center of the controversy is a friend, and when the girl conveniently disappears, Xaviera is outraged. Read More

1977
Laverne & Shirley: Season 02

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Ending its first season as America's second most popular TV series (its "inspiration," Happy Days, was the first), Laverne & Shirley held fast to the second-place slot throughout season two. Still set in the late '50s, the series continues to star Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams as Milwaukee Read More

1977
Laverne & Shirley: Season 01

Actors: Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams, Michael McKean, Eddie Mekka, Phil Foster, David L. Lander

Synopsis: Exploiting the overwhelmingly positive audience response to the 1975 Happy Days episode in which Richie (Ron Howard) and Potsie (Anson Williams) found themselves on a riotous date with brash but lovable "older women" Laverne De Fazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Feeney (Cindy Williams), executive Read More

1976
Bang the Drum Slowly

Actors: Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster, Ann Wedgeworth

Synopsis: A guaranteed tear-jerker, Bang the Drum Slowly centers on professional baseball player Bruce Pearson (Robert DeNiro) and his team mate Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarty), who supported Bruce to the bitter end after learning that the young catcher was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease and would soon Read More

1973
Hail

Actors: Dan Resin

Synopsis: Any resemblance between the U.S. president in Hail and Richard M. Nixon was purely intentional. Faced with rebellious teenagers and college students, paranoid chief executive Dan Resin comes up with a brilliant idea: lock all the malcontents in concentration camps. Unfortunately, this leads to Read More

1972
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 Patsy

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness and fame that has to be the most rancid portrait of the Hollywood star system in the Rat Pack era this side of Clifford Odets. When a famous entertainer suddenly is killed Read More

1964
Conquest of Space

Actors: Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy, Phil Foster, William Redfield

Synopsis: George Pal's now-quaint science fiction odyssey concerns a multi-national group on the first space flight to Mars. Pal pulls out all stops in the special effects department, creating "The Wheel" (a earth-orbiting circular space station), rocket launches into space, and a breathtaking Read More

1955