Ryan Stiles Filmography

Born:: April 22, 1959 in Seattle, WA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A master of improvisational comedy, tall, rangy, and rubber-faced, Ryan Stiles is best known for playing comic Drew Carey's best friend in the ABC sitcom The Drew Carey Show. Born in Seattle, Stiles entered the entertainment industry as a standup comedian in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was not...Read More

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The Drew Carey Show: Season 09

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: The ninth and final season of The Drew Carey Show was what is known in show business as a "burnoff". Though contractually committed to keep the series on the air until the Summer of 2004 and to approve a budget of $3 million per episode, ABC was unable to justify these conditions as the series' Read More

2004
Nobody Knows Anything

Actors: Alanna Ubach, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: An aspiring filmmaker learns that success in Hollywood doesn't come as easy as she suspected as she attempts to discover the formula to success in this satirical comedy from director William Tannen. When the guidance of her helpful has-been uncle (Michael Lerner) fails to pave the way, Sarah Read More

2003
Bitter Jester

Synopsis: On the cusp of stardom, standup comic Maija DiGiorgio suffered an emotional breakdown while performing before a room packed with a number of the comedy industry's head honchos -- whom were on the receiving end of DiGiorgio's obscenity-laced outburst -- at the Aspen Comedy Festival. Subsequently Read More

2003
The Drew Carey Show: Season 08

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Although by prior agreement ABC was required to retain The Drew Carey Show on its prime time schedule through 2004 at a cost of $3,000,000 per episode, by the fall of 2002 it was obvious that the series' plummeting ratings no longer justified such a long-term commitment. Thus, only 15 of the 27 Read More

2002
The Drew Carey Show: Season 07

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: The cast and crew of The Drew Carey Show entered its seventh season with more security and hubris than ever before. Thanks to the series' past excellent ratings performance, the producers and ABC had entered into an agreement whereby the show was "locked" into the network's schedule until the fall Read More

2001
The Drew Carey Show: Season 06

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Season Six of The Drew Carey Show opens with the title character (played, naturally, by Drew Carey losing his job at Cleveland's Winfred-Louder department store and ending up slinging hash at his former high school's cafeteria--and despite this enormous setback, our hero is bound and determined to Read More

2000
The Drew Carey Show: Kate vs. Speedy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When Kate (Christa Miller) complains that Drew (Drew Carey) is spoiling his dog Speedy, the mutt responds by turning hostile towards Kate--and by biting Oswald's supervisor on the eve of a job evaluation. Dr. Kelly (Bari Hochwald), DrugCo's resident animal psychologist, declares that Drew has Read More

2000
The Drew Carey Show: Season 05

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: All prior vestiges of "real life" on The Drew Carey Show have been ravaged, murdered and buried by the time Season Five rolls around. Typically surrealistic entries this season find Drew (Drew Carey) on trial for trying to murder his longtime bete noire Mimi (Kathy Kinney), and later hosting a Read More

1999
The Drew Carey Show: Season 04

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Whatever connection The Drew Carey Show ever had with "real life" during its first three seasons is utterly scattered to the winds in Season Four with the bizarre, surrealistic episode "High Road to China"--which, incidentally, was also the first American sitcom episode ever to be filmed in Read More

1998
Whose Line is it Anyway? [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Wayne Brady, Greg Proops

Synopsis: Drew Carey hosts this improvisational comedy TV game-show featuring cast members (Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, Wayne Brady) from the original British series in a variety of different theater games and skits introduced by Carey. In one set-up on the pilot, strange hats led to impromptu Read More

1998
Murphy Brown: Desperate Times

Synopsis: Murphy (Candice Bergen) desperately seeks an ally at the network when Kay (Lily Tomlin) presumptively decides to move the entire "FYI" staff to California. The situation prompts Murphy to join forces with Mr. Lansing's weaselly nephew Andrew (Paul Reubens), now ensconsed in a Buddhist monastery. Read More

1997
Courting Courtney

Actors: Dana Gould, Eliza Coyle, Taylor Negron, Sean Masterson, Ann Mattingly

Synopsis: A single girl steps up her dating endeavors in hopes of finding true love before she turns 30. Unfortunately, she doesn't have much time left. Her longtime friend Nick decides to make a documentary chronicling her search for the perfect mate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
The Drew Carey Show: Season 03

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: The Drew Carey Show continues to abandon reality in favor of surrealism through the series' third season, beginning with a story arc wherein the obstreperous Mimi (Kathy Kinney), eternal enemy of series hero Drew Carey (playing himself), goes into full "Steven King" mode, holding her traumatized Read More

1997
The Drew Carey Show: Season 02

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Season Two of The Drew Carey Show finds most of the Season One regulars still in place, with one significant addition: Craig Ferguson as the unspeakable, diabolically impulsive Nigel Wick, Drew's new boss at Cleveland's Winfred-Louder department store. Also introduced this season is the series' Read More

1996
The Drew Carey Show: Season 01

Actors: Drew Carey, Diedrich Bader, Ryan Stiles, Christa Miller, Kathy Kinney

Synopsis: Cleveland's favorite son Drew Carey stars as Cleveland's favorite son Drew Carey in the first season of the popular ABC sitcom bearing his name. Of course, Carey does not really play "himself", a successful standup comedian: The TV version of Drew Carey is the long-suffering, overworked and Read More

1995
Mad About You: The Tape

Synopsis: Hoping to return a copy of Robocop 3 to Video Village, Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) inadvertently send back a sexy "homemade video." As if this weren't embarrassing enough, the Buchmans' recorded bedroom shenanigans end up being delivered to the Family Cable Network in place of Paul's Read More

1994
Hot Shots! Part Deux

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke

Synopsis: Movie references, sight gags, silly puns, and double entendres abound in Hot Shots! Part Deux, Jim Abrahams' sequel to Hot Shots -- only now the object of the skewering is the Stallone Rambo movies instead of Top Gun. Charlie Sheen returns as the lunk-headed Topper Harley, who has retreated to a Read More

1993
Hot Shots!

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: From director Jim Abrahams, one of the minds behind the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, comes another parody. This time around, Abrahams has his sights set on the action-adventure genre, specifically Top Gun. Charlie Sheen stars as Topper Harley, a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in Read More

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Rainbow War

Synopsis: Learn about tolerance and good will with this staged war between three color kingdoms, Blue, Red and Yellow. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1986