Richard Libertini Filmography

Grilled

Actors: Ray Romano, Kevin James, Burt Reynolds, Michael Rapaport, Juliette Lewis

Synopsis: Two down-on-their-luck meat salesmen struggling to make a buck find that sometimes you have to grill your clients to secure the sale in this rib-tickling comedy that teams King of Queens star Kevin James with Everybody Loves Raymond star Ray Romano. Maurice (Romano) and Dave (James) have been Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk Gets Drunk

Synopsis: Accompanied by Natalie (Traylor Howard), Monk (Tony Shalhoub) goes on his annual pilgrimage to wine country, there to check in at the same bed and breakfast where he and his late wife Trudy spent their honeymoon. But this sentimental journey is interrupted by an obnoxious guest named Larry Zwibell Read More

The 4th Tenor

Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Davi, Annabelle Gurwitch, Anita De Simone, Charles Fleischer

Synopsis: Directed by Harry Basil, The 4th Tenor stars octogenarian Rodney Dangerfield as Lupo, a restaurant connoisseur who falls for a singing waitress named Gina (Annabelle Gurwitch). After finding out that Gina claims to be unable to love any man who doesn't sing opera, the tone-deaf Lupo vows to learn. Read More

The Drew Carey Show: The Eagle Has Landed

Synopsis: It's just another one of those days when a bald eagle swoops into Drew's house and trashes the place. Unfortunately, the bird is an endangered species, meaning not only that it cannot be removed, but Drew (Drew Carey) must also protect and coddle the eagle at all costs! The situation worsens when Read More

NYPD Blue: Lucky Luciano

Synopsis: When a woman is found murdered, the detectives learn that virtually everyone in the victim's family wanted to see her dead -- but the only fingerprint found on the scene is that of Marcus Potter (Alimi Ballard), the obligatory least likely suspect. In other developments, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) is Read More

Law & Order: Ambitious

Synopsis: The murder of an audio installation salesman has links to Jeff Stahl (Joe Piscopo) and Tom Wilder (Mark-Linn Baker), the co-owners of a Manhattan strip club. It turns out that both men are paying protection to the arrogant son (Jeremy Davidson) of Mafia boss Joseph Russo (Ralph Lucarelli). A deal Read More

Lethal Weapon 4

Actors: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Chris Rock

Synopsis: Detectives Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) reteamed for their fourth foray together in this buddy-cop action-comedy series based on characters created by Shane Black. With the passage of years, Murtagh's daughter Rianne (Traci Wolfe) is now about to upgrade Murtagh to Read More

Telling You

Actors: Peter Facinelli, Dash Mihok, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frank Medrano, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: Robert DeFranco directed this comedy-drama about two New Jerseyites who graduated from college only to operate the oven at Lombardo's Pizza. Phil (Peter Facinelli) and Dennis (Dash Mihok) soon realize that the guys they once laughed at have moved on -- while they have been left behind in Nowhere Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 89: Accession

Synopsis: Having been given up for lost some 200 years earlier, a Bajoran space vessel suddenly emerges from the wormhole. Its sole passenger is Akorem Laan (Richard Libertini), a legendary Bajoran poet and political activist. Making up for lost time, Akorem claims to be the Emissary of the Prophets, a Read More

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: Bloodlines

Actors: Quinton Flynn, John deLancie, Robert Foxworth, Rob Paulsen, Frank Welker, Jennifer Hale

Synopsis: Receiving a psychic message, Hadji heads to Calcutta in search of the truth about his past. He is met by his surrogate father, Pasha Peddlar, who has some disturbing news not only about the past, but also the future -- of the entire Quest team. Jennifer Hale, the voice of Jessie Bannon, is also Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Dark Side of the Door

Synopsis: While going through a manuscript from a prestigious author, junior book editor Erin Garman (Tracy Middendorf cannot help but notice similarities between the book's plot and her own life: It seems that, as a child, she was kidnapped, and still cannot recall the particulars of the situation. As Erin Read More

Law & Order: Rage

Synopsis: Courtney B. Vance guest stars as Benjamin "Bud" Greer, a highly successful African-American Wall Street broker. The detectives and the D.A.'s office swoop down on Greer when he is suspected of murdering his white mentor. The Defense argues that Greer should be acquitted, using the controversial Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Film Flam

Synopsis: Hollywood is abuzz with the news that a film completed back in 1960, but shelved after its director died mysteriously, has been rediscovered and restored. This takes place at a studio that has become a target for a wide variety of movie pirates--and not a few dedicated film buffs. When one of Read More

Nell

Actors: Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini, Nick Searcy

Synopsis: A woman is brought to civilization after spending her life in the wilds in this drama. Dr. Jerome Lovell (Liam Neeson) happens upon a shack deep in the woods, where he discovers a strange woman who appears to be about 30, speaking an incomprehensible language. The woman, named Nell (Jodie Foster) Read More

Cultivating Charlie

Actors: David Huddleston, Vincent Schiavelli, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Though this film is billed as a comedy, it does contain some violent moments as it follows a young man's journey across the U.S. in search of himself. Our hero is vegetarian Charles Thundertrunk whose father owns the fabulously successful fast-food chain Burger World. At his father's request Read More

Law & Order: Wager

Synopsis: The father of celebrated baseball star Pat Williams (Malik Yoba) is murdered. Following the trail of clues, detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth) determine that the killing was tied in with gambling debts and not-so-veiled threats against the dead man's relatives. All roads Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Dead to Rights

Synopsis: Molly Hagan is cast as Dana Ballard, a former research assistant of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury)--and a pathological liar. When Dana's current employer is killed and she is accused of the crime, she begs Jessica to clear her name. But Jessica can't help wondering if Dana is merely weaving Read More

Murphy Brown: Me Thinks My Parents Doth Protest Too Much

Synopsis: Richard Libertini and Kelly Bishop appear as Nathan and Connie, the parents of "FYI" producer Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud). Both tireless liberal activists since the 1960s, the elder Silverbergs have arrived in Washington DC to participate in a huge protest rally against a big oil company. Read More

And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird!

Actors: Joshua Miller, Edan Gross, Marcia Strassman, Alan Thicke, Susan Gibney

Synopsis: In this family-fun type of film, two brothers who have apparently inherited their recently deceased father's inventor-type genes decide to finish their pop's robot invention, sell it for big bucks, and keep mom out of the poorhouse. They put together the metal man named Newman who somehow has Read More

Awakenings

Actors: Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic Read More

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Actors: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Brian De Palma's Hollywood sanitization of Tom Wolfe's scabrous satire stars Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy, the "master of the universe," a shallow Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle Read More

The Lemon Sisters

Actors: Diane Keaton, Carol Kane, Kathryn Grody, Elliott Gould, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: Diane Keaton, Carol Kane and Kathryn Grody are the title "siblings," three unrelated women who perform as a lounge trio and struggle to come up with the money to buy their own club. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp

Actors: Alan Young, Russie Taylor, Rip Taylor, Christopher Lloyd, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: Based on the popular Disney animated afternoon television adventure series, which was in turn based on such supporting characters from earlier Donald Duck films and comic books as Scrooge McDuck and Donald's mischievous nephews Huey, Duey and Louie, this adventure chronicles the attempts of the Read More

Extreme Close-Up

Actors: Blair Brown, Craig T. Nelson, Morgan Weisser, Samantha Mathis, Kimber Shoop

Synopsis: Filmed in semidocumentary fashion, Extreme Close-up features Morgan Weisser as a 16-year-old boy grieving the death of his mother (Blair Brown). Trying to assuage his grief, Weisser runs family videotapes of his mother. It becomes increasingly clear that the woman was falling apart emotionally in Read More

Animal Behavior

Actors: Karen Allen, Armand Assante, Holly Hunter, Richard Libertini, Josh Mostel

Synopsis: In this enjoyable, lighthearted "he's fallen for her" situational, a music professor finds a science department faculty member too deeply engrossed in her inter-species communication studies (she talks to chimps) to even notice him. Since he can't get her mind off her studies, he decides to work Read More

Fletch Lives

Actors: Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, Cleavon Little, R. Lee Ermey

Synopsis: Though the original Fletch was drubbed by critics, it proved a major success for star Chevy Chase. It was inevitable, then, that a sequel would make an appearance. Surprisingly, Fletch Lives didn't come out until 1989--a full five years after the original. Once more, Chase stars as Irwin Maurice Read More

Betrayed

Actors: Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, Betsy Blair, John Mahoney

Synopsis: Set in the American South, Betrayed stars Debra Winger as an FBI agent who infiltrates a Klanlike white supremacist organization. Allegedly a woman of intelligence and perception, Winger throws caution and logic to the winds when she falls in love with local farmer Tom Berenger. Much to her Read More

The Trial of Bernhard Goetz

Synopsis: This docudrama reenacts the famous 1987 trial of New York vigilante Bernhard Goetz who was tried for shooting four young African-American men on a subway train. Though the trial is enacted by actors, the dialogue was taken verbatim from the actual court transcripts. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Moonlighting: It's a Wonderful Job

Synopsis: There must be an inviolate law on the TV statute books demanding that every series turn out at least one takeoff of the 1946 film classic It's a Wonderful Life. Moonlighting's contribution to this ongong Yuletide tradtion finds a disgruntled Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) wondering what her life would Read More

The Fourth Wise Man

Synopsis: Made for television, The Fourth Wise Man was syndicated to local TV stations during Easter week of 1985. Martin Sheen, a devout Catholic who is no stranger to religious television, heads the all-star cast. Sheen plays Artaban, a wealthy Persian doctor of Biblical times, who embarks upon a search Read More

Big Trouble

Actors: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Paul Dooley, Robert Stack

Synopsis: It took nearly two years after its completion for Big Trouble to reach the big screen. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are respectively cast as a shady wheeler-dealer and an uptight family man. Strapped for the cash necessary to send his son to Yale, Arkin reluctantly enters into a murder scheme with Beverly D'Angelo 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

Unfaithfully Yours

Actors: Dudley Moore, Nastassja Kinski, Armand Assante, Albert Brooks, Cassie Yates

Synopsis: This remake of the 1948 Preston Sturges classic stars Dudley Moore as the symphony conductor who imagines ways to get back at the wife he believes is unfaithful to him. Moore plays Claude Eastman, the conductor of a prestigious sympathy, who suspects that his actress wife Daniella (Nastassja Kinski Read More

All of Me

Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: On her deathbed, mean-spirited millionairess Lily Tomlin has her will amended so that her soul will pass into the body of young, healthy Victoria Tennant. Thanks to a mix-up in transmutation, Tomlin winds up instead trapped in the body of upright (and uptight) attorney Steve Martin. The plot Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Sleeping Beauty

Synopsis: Based on the beloved fairy tale, this installment of Shelley Duvall's "Faerie Tale Theatre" tells the well-known tale of a beautiful princess (Bernadette Peters) who is enchanted by an evil fairy and doomed to an eternal sleep unless she receives the kiss of a prince (Christopher Reeve). ~ Iotis Read More

Going Berserk

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Alley Mills, Pat Hingle, Elizabeth Kerr

Synopsis: In this comedy, a stuffy congressman is dismayed when he discovers that his beloved daughter intends to marry limousine driver John Bourgignon (John Candy). While intending to put on a good show for his father-in-law to be, John is captured by some political opponents of the congressman. His Read More

Deal of the Century

Actors: Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Gregory Hines, Vince Edwards, William Marquez

Synopsis: The humor in this Chevy Chase comedy lies solely in the eyes of the beholder. The comic plays Eddie Muntz, an arms dealer looking to make a big sale of war planes to a South American dictator. In order to do so, his girlfriend (Sigourney Weaver) has to sleep with the dictator and his friend (Gregory Hines Read More

Soup for One

Actors: Saul Rubinek, Marcia Strassman, Gerritt Graham, Teddy Pendergrass, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: When a young, single, neurotic New Yorker finds the perfect woman, he tries desperately to get her to fall for him. Young director Jonathan Kaufer has been compared to Woody Allen with this, his first feature. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Best Friends

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn, Jessica Tandy, Barnard Hughes, Audra Lindley

Synopsis: We'd rather not speculate over how much of Best Friends is autobiographical. We'll just note that this story of a male-female screenwriting team was written by real-life married scenarists Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin. Lovers as well as collaborators, scriveners Richard Babson (Burt Reynolds) Read More

Sharky's Machine

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Brian Keith

Synopsis: A William Diehl novel was the source of the noirish nailbiter Sharky's Machine. Sharky (Burt Reynolds) is an undercover cop who fouls up an assignment and is kicked downstairs to the vice squad -- a rough-shod bunch of hellraisers who make life miserable. Soon, however, Sharky's life does a 180 Read More

Popeye

Actors: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in Read More

Laverne & Shirley: The Tenants are Revolting

Synopsis: Rather than annoy their landlady Edna (Betty Garrett), Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) contact a building inspector to make some necessary repairs in their apartment. True to his calling, the inspector manages to locate the problem and diagnose its cure. Unfortunately, he Read More

The In-Laws

Actors: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Arlene Golonka, Penny Peyser

Synopsis: Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) is a respectable man. He has a daughter who is about to marry the son of a very suspicious character, Vince Ricardo (Peter Falk). They are practically relatives already, the wedding is so near. Certainly, Sheldon already despises Vince as if he were already a Read More

Days of Heaven

Actors: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill (Richard Gere Read More

Alice: Florence of Arabia

Synopsis: Richard Libertini, best known as the daffy dictator ("Talk to the hand!") in the 1977 film The In-Laws, appears in this episode as an oil-rich Arab named Ben. Sweeping into Mel's Diner, Ben entrances Flo (Polly Holliday) and asks her to be his wife. What he fails to mention is that he merely wants Read More

Three on a Date

Synopsis: In this comedy, four couples go on a dating game show and end up winning a fabulous Hawaiian vacation. Unfortunately, they are accompanied by a stern chaperone. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Comedy Tonight

The Bob Newhart Show: Shallow Throat

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Saddled with a close-mouthed patient named Twillmer (Richard Libertini), Bob encourages the man to open up and "let it all out." Unfortunately, Twillmer reveals that he has embezzled an enormous sum of money -- and Bob is bound by his doctor-patient confidentiality oath to keep mum about this Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Halls of Hartley

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Weary of the exigencies of life in the big city, Bob applies for a professorial post at a small-town college. The institute, located in Iowa, is essentially a farming college, so one can guess the direction of the episode's comic thrust. The supporting cast includes Tresa Hughes as Dr. Doctor Read More

Fire Sale

Actors: Alan Arkin, Rob Reiner, Sid Caesar, Vincent Gardenia, Anjanette Comer, Kay Medford

Synopsis: Alan Arkin directed and starred in this anarchic comedy. Benny Fikus (Vincent Gardenia) is the owner of a department store that's on its last legs, with his nebbishy son Russell (Rob Reiner) serving as his second-in-command. Benny's bother Ezra (Arkin) used to work with him at the store, but he Read More

Soap: Season 01

Synopsis: The endless intrigues (sexual and otherwise) involving the Campbells and the Tates are already up and running as the satirical sitcom Soap launches its first season. By the time episode one has faded from view, the audience is aware that blowhard businessman Chester Tate (Robert Mandan) is Read More

Good Times: Love Has a Spot on His Lung, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Carl (Moses Gunn) has learned that he has lung cancer, and has canceled his plans to wed Florida (Esther Rolle). Confronted by the Evans kids, Carl is unwilling to admit his affliction, claiming that he has decided not to marry because he was wounded in "the Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Who's Who in Neverland?

Synopsis: In the second of the feature-length Quincy, M.E. episodes produced for the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie anthology, medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) performs an autopsy on Margo Bentley (Joanna Barnes), a novice writer who at the time of her death was working on a scandalous "roman a clef" about Read More

The Jeffersons: A Dinner for Harry

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover, Berlinda Tolbert

Synopsis: The Jeffersons enters its second season with virtually all of its first-season cast members intact -- except for Mike Evans as Lionel Jefferson (the actor's replacement, Damon Evans, would not appear until the third episode of season two). The occasion is a birthday party for the Jeffersons' Read More

Mortadella

Actors: Sophia Loren

Synopsis: The well-known short-story writer Ring Lardner, Jr. wrote the screenplay for La Mortadella, an Italian/French production with mostly English dialogue. The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Madelena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country Read More

Catch-22

Actors: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing Read More

The Out-of-Towners

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sandy Dennis, Milt Kamen, Sandy Baron, Anne Meara, Robert Nichols

Synopsis: Ohio businessman Jack Lemmon is offered a golden job opportunity; all he has to do is relocate himself and wife Sandy Dennis to New York City. What follows has led some critics to complain that playwright Neil Simon has written a "hate letter" to Manhattan. Within a 36 hour period, the couple (a) Read More

Don't Drink the Water

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Richard Libertini, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Don't Drink The Water is taken from a play by Woody Allen. Walter Hollander (Jackie Gleason) is a middle-aged caterer from Newark, New Jersey who takes his wife Marion (Estelle Parsons) and his teenage daughter Susan (Joan Delaney) on a tour of Europe. When their plane is high-jacked to Vulgaria Read More

The Night They Raided Minsky's

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Britt Ekland, Norman Wisdom, Forrest Tucker, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: Narrator Rudy Vallee announces that he knows we are a "real high class audience," thus he has "some swell story to tell." Thus begins The Night They Raided Minsky's, set in the rarefied world of burlesque in the 1920s. Quaker girl Rachel Schpitendavel (Britt Ekland) comes to New York in hopes of Read More