Rick MoranisFilmography

Born:: April 18, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Richard Allen Moranis
Biography:: While still attending high school in Toronto, Rick Moranis held down a part-time job as a radio engineer. After working as a solo nightclub comic and radio deejay, Moranis joined the Second City comedy troupe, which lead to his television bow in 1980 on the syndicated weekly Second City TV. Like...Read More

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Brother Bear 2: The Moose Are on the Loose

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Mandy Moore, Wanda Sykes, Jeremy Suarez, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: An old friendship is renewed and new bonds are forged as Kenai and Nita set out on the adventure of a lifetime in this animated, direct-to-video sequel to the 2003 Disney hit Brother Bear. When Kenai emerges from his first hibernation with a hearty appetite and a craving for the best spring Read More

2006
Brother Bear

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, Jason Raize, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas

Synopsis: In the Disney-animated adventure Brother Bear, Joaquin Phoenix provides the voice of Kenai, a young Native American boy whose brother, Sitka (voice of D.B. Sweeney), is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. With revenge in mind, Kenai sets out into the woods only to find himself magically Read More

10/24/03
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids

Synopsis: Based on a series of children's books by David Kirk, this cartoon special features the voice of Brooke Shields as Miss Spider, a sensible young arachnid who, within a few minutes after the opening credits, has become Mrs. Spider. Happily wed to the nerdish but loveable Holley (voiced by Rick Moranis Read More

2003
Big Bully

Actors: Rick Moranis, Tom Arnold, Julianne Phillips, Carol Kane, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: In this comedy, a writer's triumphant return to his hometown turns out to have a very long string attached. As a child, small and timid David Leary grew up in Hastings, MN, where he lived in mortal fear of the school bully, Roscoe Bigger, aka "Fang." Fang loved nothing more than making David's Read More

1996
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

Actors: Rick Moranis, Eve Gordon, Bug Hall, Allison Mack, Robin Bartlett

Synopsis: The Szalinsky family once again discovers size really does matter in this follow-up to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Honey, I Blew up the Kid. Inventor Wayne Szalinsky (Rick Moranis) is preparing to donate his problematic shrinking/expanding machine to the Smithsonian Institution as he and Read More

1996
The Flintstones

Actors: John Goodman, Elizabeth Perkins, Rick Moranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Kyle MacLachlan

Synopsis: The good (if not fully evolved) citizens of Bedrock make their way to the big screen in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series of the 1960s. Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) and his best friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis) work together at the Slate and Company Rock Quarry. When Read More

1994
Little Giants

Actors: Rick Moranis, Ed O'Neill, John Madden, Shawna Waldron, Mary Ellen Trainor

Synopsis: A successful retired jock and his geeky younger brother play out their sibling rivalry by coaching rival little league football teams in this family comedy. Ed O'Neill plays the older brother, Kevin O'Shea, a former Heisman Trophy winner whose gridiron exploits have made him a local hero in his Read More

1994
Splitting Heirs

Actors: Rick Moranis, Eric Idle, Barbara Hershey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cleese

Synopsis: Splitting Heirs is a dull mistaken identity comedy about a British Duke (Eric Idle) who is switched at birth when his parents accidentally left him behind in a restaurant, picking up the wrong baby by mistake. Idle is raised by Pakistanis and when he discovers his true identity, he begins plotting Read More

1993
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Actors: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Oliveri, Daniel Shalikar, Joshua Shalikar

Synopsis: In the sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, a bumbling but brilliant scientist (Rick Moranis) accidentally makes his two-year-old son into a giant who becomes larger every time he comes in contact with electricity. Though he and his wife try to control their son, the child inevitably escapes and Read More

7/17/92
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories [Animated Series]

Synopsis: Duvall's Emmy- and ACE award-winning animated bedtime stories, narrated by celebrities. Each tape contains two stories and are available individually. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1992
The Best of John Candy on SCTV

Synopsis: For many years, comedian John Candy was a staple of the prestigious Second City comedy troupe where he was known for creating such unforgettable characters as Johnny La Rue and Dr. Tongue. He was also a noted impressionist who had audiences rolling in the aisles with his take on such figures as Read More

1992
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories, Vol. 3: Little Toot and the Loch Ness Monster

1992
L.A. Story

Actors: Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis: Steve Martin wrote and stars in this look at the promise and dreamtime of Los Angeles culture. Martin stars as Harris K. Telemacher, a light-hearted television weatherman who does wacky comedy in lieu of reports since, being in L.A., he has very little weather to report. He spends his time Read More

2/8/91
My Blue Heaven

Actors: Jesse Bradford, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Melanie Mayron, Carol Kane

Synopsis: Herbert Ross directed this Nora Ephron-scripted buddy comedy starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. Steve Martin plays Vinnie Antonelli, a street smart mobster who agrees to turn state's evidence and is forced to move to Fryburg, California as part of the witness relocation program. Rick Moranis Read More

8/17/90
Parenthood

Actors: Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Jr., Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This feel-good ensemble comedy tracks a quartet of suburban siblings and their families over the course of a single summer. Hardworking Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) and his stay-at-home wife, Karen (Mary Steeenburgen), have just a few months to help their oldest son, Kevin (Jasen Fisher), overcome Read More

8/2/89
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Actors: Rick Moranis, Matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman, Kristine Sutherland

Synopsis: Erstwhile inventor Rick Moranis has been experimenting with an electro-magnetic shrinking machine. He leaves the device unattended in his attic; shortly afterward, it is accidentally activated. Alas, the demon machine is aimed at Moranis' children, as well as the son of neighbor Matt Frewer. The Read More

6/23/89
Ghostbusters 2

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman's sequel to the phenomenally successful Ghostbusters is looser and more self-assured than the original. The film opens with a title reading "Five Years Later" and finds the ghostbusters living in hard times. A restraining order has forbidden the boys to partake in paranormal warfare Read More

6/16/89
Saturday Night Live: Rick Moranis

Actors: Rick Moranis, Rickie Lee Jones

Synopsis: This 1989 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Rick Moranis and features musical guest Rickie Lee Jones. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Spaceballs

Actors: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga

Synopsis: A space bum helps rescue a princess from an evil overlord with the help of a benevolent elder in this Star Wars send-up written and directed by Mel Brooks. Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-man, half-dog co-pilot, Barf the Mawg (John Candy), are content to scour the galaxy living the easy Read More

6/24/87
Rocket Boy

Actors: Rick Moranis, John Candy, Dave Thomas, Robert Donner

Synopsis: In this sci-fi comedy a gentle video store clerk has a secret double life as an intergalactic crimefighter who must stop an evil alien from stealing the hair off human heads. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Little Shop of Horrors

Actors: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Levi Stubbs

Synopsis: It started as a 1960 Roger Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish 1982 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Finally in 1986, Little Shop of Horrors (1960) graduated into a multimillion-dollar, all-star film musical. Rick Moranis Read More

12/19/86
Club Paradise

Actors: Robin Williams, Peter O'Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy

Synopsis: Robin Williams' comic shtick sabotages any attempt at comic development in Harold Ramis' patchy comedy farce Club Paradise. Williams plays Jack Moniker, a Chicago fireman injured in the line of duty, who uses his disability money to open up a run-down Caribbean resort. Jack eagerly awaits the Read More

7/11/86
Head Office

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Jane Seymour, Don King, Rick Moranis, Danny DeVito, Don Novello, Lori-Nan Engler

Synopsis: With a script that is too anemic for the red-blooded actors featured here, this anorexic comedy moves slowly up and down the corporate ladder with the fortunes and misfortunes of several company men. Jack Issel (Judge Reinhold) gets a VIP position at INC in the PR department (business-speak). Read More

1/3/86
Brewster's Millions

Actors: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: The seventh cinema adaptation of the venerable stage farce Brewster's Millions stars Richard Pryor as Montgomery Brewster, a third-rate baseball player. Much to his amazement, Brewster discovers that he is related to deceased millionaire Rupert Horn (Hume Cronyn, who appears only in a videotaped Read More

1985
Streets of Fire

Actors: Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: More like a series of MTV sequences than a long-term narration, this super-thin story line focuses on a kidnapped singer (Diane Lane) and her ex-boyfriend (Michael Pare) who goes forth to save her through rainy streets, the roar of elevated subways, several alleys, and the usual warehouses. Each Read More

1984
Ghostbusters

Actors: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is Read More

1984
Hockey Night

Actors: Megan Follows

Synopsis: A film from Canada titled Hockey Night: are we at all surprised? This amiable little teen-oriented film is set in a small town where Hockey is King--or, perhaps, God. Rick Moranis is in charge of a boys' hockey team, in dire need of playing talent. Enter Megan Follows, who turns out to be the best Read More

1984
The Last Polka

Synopsis: This HBO comedy special is a send-up of Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz. Scorsese's film, it will be recalled, recorded the final concert of the rock group The Band. Polka deals with the rise and fall of that fabulous Lutonian twosome, the Schmenge Brothers. John Candy is Yosh Schmenge, and Eugene Levy Read More

1984
The Wild Life

Actors: Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Eric Stoltz, Jenny Wright, Lea Thompson

Synopsis: Comprised of classic teen movie elements scattered like croutons over a salad, this undistinguished high school drama involves several inconsequential stories at once, set in a seven-day period before the beginning of school. Tom Drake (Christopher Penn, Sean's brother) is a high-school wrestler Read More

1984
Strange Brew

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Max von Sydow, Paul Dooley, Lynne Griffin

Synopsis: Purporting to be loosely based on Hamlet, Strange Brew is about an evil braumeister at the Elsinore Brewery who has discovered an additive that when guzzled in beer, allows the drinkers to be easily controlled. Braumeister Smith (Max von Sydow) has a plan to take over the world with his new brew Read More

1983
Saturday Night Live: Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas

Actors: Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, The Bus Boys

Synopsis: This 1983 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas and features musical guests the Bus Boys. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
The Best of SCTV [1]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This is the first of three 90-minute NBC specials offering prized vignettes from SCTV's three seasons and the first season of SCTV: Network 90. Highlights include "What's My Shoe Size?," "Play It Again, Bob," "Perry Como: Still Alive," "The Merv Griffith Show From Mayberry," "Leave It to Beaver Read More

1982
The Best of SCTV [2]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This is the second of three 90-minute NBC specials offering prized vignettes from SCTV's three seasons and the first season of SCTV: Network 90. Highlights include the hilariously irritating Canadian game show "High Q"; Funnyman Bobby Bittman's remake of "On the Waterfront"; "The Irwin Allen Read More

1982
The Best of SCTV [3]

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: This is the last of three 90-minute NBC specials offering prized vignettes from SCTV's three seasons and the first season of SCTV: Network 90. Highlights include Gregory Peck and Woody Allen's versions of Taxi Driver; the 2-minute adaptation of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Doug and Bob Read More

1982
SCTV Network 90: Season 01

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Expanding from 30 to 90 minutes per week in the process of "graduating" from Canada's Global Television Network to America's NBC, the popular sketch comedy series SCTV also boasts an expanded title -- SCTV: Network 90 -- as it launches its first NBC season. The "new" series' format is primarily Read More

1981
SCTV: Season 03

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis

Synopsis: Although former stalwarts John Candy, Catherine O'Hara, and Harold Ramis are no longer part of the action, the third season of SCTV still boasts some of the Canadian-based sketch comedy series' best material. For starters, the season opener offers a special presentation of My Fair Lady...that is Read More

1980
SCTV [TV Series]

Actors: Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Harold Ramis, John Candy, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: An outgrowth of Chicago's Second City comedy troupe, which was created in 1959, the Toronto branch of Second City invaded Canada's CBC in the fall of 1976 with a weekly, half-hour sketch comedy series, making up in talent and energy what it lacked in budget and production polish. Taped in Read More

1978
Rudolph and the Island of Misfit Toys

Actors: Rick Moranis, Jamie Lee Curtis, Richard Dreyfuss, Kathleen Barr, Scott McNeil, Garry Chalk

Synopsis: This Christmas musical, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys, relates the adventures of everyone's favorite reindeer and his beloved owner, Santa, when they come across an island populated by broken toys. Hollywood heavy-hitters Jamie Lee Curtis, Rick Moranis, and Read More

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