Wayne KnightFilmography

Who's Your Monkey

Actors: Scott Grimes, Jason London, Scott Michael Campbell, David DeLuise, Kevin Durand

Synopsis: The childhood friendship between four lifelong friends is unexpectedly rekindled after one of them kills a notorious drug dealer and the rest of the group conspires to cover up the crime. Beer-guzzling widower Bobby Stork was locked into a downward spiral of depression when he ran across his old Read More

Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King

Actors: Frank Welker, Casey Kasem, Mindy Cohn, Grey DeLisle, Hayden Panettiere

Synopsis: A wicked warlock has cast a diabolical spell over Mystery, Inc. gang, and now it's up to Shaggy and Scooby-Doo to save the day. Join the lovable Great Dane and his easy frightened friend as they attempt to track down the Amazing Krudsky (voice of Wayne Knight), a second rate carnival magician Read More

Forfeit

Actors: Billy Burke, Sherry Stringfield, John Aylward, Gregory Itzin, Phil Reeves

Synopsis: Andrew Shea's scabrous and brutal psychological drama Forfeit concerns Frank O'Neal (Billy Burke), a man who once murdered his abusive father as an adolescent, and fled from his home in Los Angeles. Now, after years away from that city, a thirtysomething Frank returns to L.A., accepts a job as an Read More

Black Cloud

Actors: Eddie Spears, Julia Jones, Tim McGraw, Saginaw Grant, Branscombe Richmond

Synopsis: Actor Rick Schroder makes his directorial debut with this inspiring drama set in the American Southwest. Black Cloud (Eddie Spears) is a young Native American who grew up in a violent household and is still struggling to come to terms with his family and his heritage. Black Cloud's life has forced Read More

Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone

Actors: Alyssa Milano, Jamie Kennedy, Kathy Griffin, Wayne Knight, Michael Clarke Duncan

Synopsis: A boy and a dinosaur join forces to bring peace to their village in this animated feature inspired by the popular television miniseries Dinotopia. Kex (voice of Alec Medlock) is a 12-year-old boy who, after the sinking of the ship he's boarded, is stranded on an uncharted island. To his surprise Read More

Catscratch [Animated TV Series]

Actors: Wayne Knight, Kevin McDonald, Rob Paulsen, Maurice LaMarche, Liliana Mumy

Synopsis: From the twisted comic mind of Doug TenNapel (Earthworm Jim) sprang this weekly, half-hour animated series about three zany cats. Feline siblings Mr. Blik (the bossy one), Gordon (the messy one) and Waffle (the goofy one) were owned by elderly and very wealthy eccentric Mrs. Edna Cramdilly. Upon Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Liar, Liar, House on Fire

Synopsis: In the wake of the fire that destroyed her house, Mimi (Kathy Kinney) is anxious to receive the insurance claim so she replace the structure. There's just one small hitch: If the insurance adjuster (played by Seinfeld's Wayne Knight) learns the truth behind the cause of the conflagration, Mimi Read More

Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

Actors: William Hurt, Mary-Louise Parker, David Strathairn, Ron Silver, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: Originally presented in two parts by the CBS network, Master Spy is the true story of Robert Hanssen, a disgruntled FBI agent who, for 20 years, systematically sold out his country to the former Soviet Union. The film depicts Hanssen (played by William Hurt) as hyper-intelligent and Read More

Bleacher Bums

Actors: Peter Riegert, Brad Garrett, Wayne Knight

Synopsis: There are people who like to watch a ball game every once in a while, and then there are baseball fans, individuals of rare dedication whose passion for their favorite team defies conventional logic, and this comedy-drama follows a group of fans whose devotion to their hometown heroes is rarely Read More

Rat Race

Actors: Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Seth Green, Jon Lovitz, Breckin Meyer, Kathy Najimy

Synopsis: A very loose remake of the classic multi-star comedy It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), this madcap comedy is directed by Jerry Zucker, one third of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker comedy team and director of Ghost (1990). John Cleese stars as an eccentric casino owner who devises a contest pitting Read More

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

Actors: Tim Allen, Wayne Knight, Nicole Sullivan, Stephen Furst

Synopsis: Buzz Lightyear, the plastic spaceman who helped conquer the toy box in the wildly popular Toy Story films, returns in this animated adventure. Buzz (voice of Tim Allen) and his partner Agent Z (voice of Diedrich Bader) have devoted themselves to keeping Gamma Quadrant in Deep Space free of Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 06

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Compared to the zany opening episodes of previous seasons, the sixth and final season of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun boasts a rather innocuous opener, with alien-in-human-form Dick Solomon (John Lithgow) helping his human-in-human form fiancée Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) teach a Read More

Toy Story 2

Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles

Synopsis: Woody the Cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of their friends from the toy box return in this computer-animated sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story. This time around, Andy, the young boy who is the proud owner of most of our cast of characters, is off at summer camp, giving the toys a few weeks off Read More

Tarzan

Actors: Brian Blessed, Glenn Close, Minnie Driver, Tony Goldwyn, Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis: Author Edgar Rice Burroughs once suggested that animation would be the ideal medium to bring his Tarzan to the screen, and 81 years after the first film about the famous ape-man, Disney brings us the first full-length animated film starring the King of the Jungle. After a disaster at sea causes Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 05

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: The riotous conclusion of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun's fourth season has a big spillover effect at the beginning of Season Five. The Solomon "family", a group of aliens in human form who've come to earth on a fact-finding mission, are relieved to discover that the baby borne by Harry Read More

Seinfeld: The Finale, Part 2

Synopsis: In the concluding half of Seinfeld's controversial series finale, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Kramer (Michael Richards), and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) find themselves stranded in Latham, MA -- and even worse, they are facing arrest for violating the town's new Good Read More

Seinfeld: The Bookstore

Synopsis: Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) confronts Uncle Leo (Len Lesser), who claims "senior citizens' rights" when he shoplifts at a bookstore. Meanwhile, George (Jason Alexander) learns the terrible consequences of taking a big book to the store's bathroom. Kramer (Michael Richards) and Newman (Wayne Knight) Read More

Seinfeld: The Finale, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of Seinfeld's controversial series finale, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) receives word that NBC is very interested in his concept of a sitcom "about nothing."Almost immediately, Jerry and George (Jason Alexander) draw up plans to move to California -- but not before taking fiendish Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 04

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Resolving the cliffhanger ending of Season Three, Season Four of 3rd From the Sun finds the Solomon family--actually a team of aliens who've assumed human form while on a fact-finding mission on Planet Earth--desperately searching for their kidnapped colleague Harry Solomon (French Stewart) Read More

Seinfeld: The Cartoon

Synopsis: In her efforts to "understand" a New Yorker cartoon, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) takes up cartooning herself -- but her boss, Peterman (John O'Hurley), knows a Ziggy rip-off when he sees one. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) is aghast when performance artist Sally Weaver (Kathy Griffin) puts on her latest Read More

Seinfeld: The Reverse Peephole

Synopsis: Kramer (Michael Richards) and Newman (Wayne Knight) reverse the peepholes on their apartment doors, leading to the usual landlord troubles (usual for Seinfeld, that is). Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) doesn't like carrying his girlfriend's stuff around, but that's nothing compared to his ill feelings Read More

Seinfeld: The Muffin Tops

Synopsis: Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) smells a "million dollar idea" when a restauranteur notices that she only eats the tops of muffins. George (Jason Alexander) begins wearing the clothes found in a bag left in his care by a tourist who never returned. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) shaves his chest to impress Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 03

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Season Three of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun opens with another dilemma for the group of space aliens who have assumed the human form of the "Solomon" family for the purpose of gathering intelligence on the planet earth: It seems that group leader Dick Solomon (John Lithgow) has been Read More

Seinfeld: The Millennium

Synopsis: Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) thinks it's a good thing that he is number one on his girlfriend's speed dial -- but it isn't. Apprehensive about the approaching millennium, Kramer (Michael Richards) decides to hold his New Year's Eve party two years early. George (Jason Alexander) connives to get fired by Read More

Seinfeld: The Pothole

Synopsis: Try though he might, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) cannot overcome the fact that his girlfriend, Jenna (Kristen Davis), has used a toothbrush that he'd pulled from his toilet. George (Jason Alexander) loses his keys -- and also a key ring that Steinbrenner has given him -- near a pothole. Kramer (Michael Richards Read More

Seinfeld: The Betrayal

Synopsis: This is the legendary "backwards" episode, beginning at the end with a bedraggled Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) returning from a trip to India. Thereafter, each successive scene takes us back in time, culminating with the opening of the story Read More

For Richer or Poorer

Actors: Tim Allen, Kirstie Alley, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Lerner, Wayne Knight

Synopsis: Plagued by debts, New Yorkers Brad (Tim Allen) and Caroline (Kirstie Alley) Sexton continue to live the high life while maintaining the deception of wealth. But then real estate developer Brad learns his accountant has balanced the books in his own favor, appropriated $5 million, and flown to Read More

Seinfeld: The Merv Griffin Show

Synopsis: Purchasing the set of the old Merv Griffin Show, Kramer (Michael Richards) transforms his living room into a talk show -- but is it "Merv," or is it "Scandals and Animals?" (And yes, that's Wild Kingdom's Jim Fowler.) Meanwhile, Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is plagued at work by a "sidler" who Read More

Seinfeld: The Junk Mail

Synopsis: Kramer (Michael Richards) plots a horrible revenge on the mail-order company that has been deluging him with catalogues. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) gets a car from his old pal "Fragile" Frankie (Dana Gould), but not the car he wanted; however, the vehicle falls right into place with Kramer's sinister Read More

Seinfeld: The Butter Shave

Synopsis: The ninth and final season of Seinfeld begins with Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) enthusing over NBC's interest in his concept for a situation comedy "about nothing." However, he's less than enthusiastic over the omnipresence of his eternal nemesis, second-rate comedian Kenny Bania (Steve Hytner). Read More

Seinfeld: The Blood

Synopsis: After an unfortunate encounter with an Exacto knife, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) receives an infusion of Kramer's blood -- and he isn't keen on being regarded as a "blood brother." George (Jason Alexander) finds both his appetite and his libido increasing thanks to some vanilla-scented incense. Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus Read More

Seinfeld: The Package

Synopsis: Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) goes to great lengths to peek at her diagnosis after visiting a doctor about a rash. Refusing delivery of a package with no return address, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) is faced with a charge of mail fraud -- and worse still, a "basic instinct" moment with Newman (Wayne Knight Read More

Seinfeld: The Chicken Roaster

Synopsis: Kramer (Michael Richards) switches apartments (and several other things) with Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) when he is kept awake by a huge neon sign promoting Kenny Rogers Roasters. Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has to go to the end of the earth -- or at least to Burma -- to get her expense account Read More

Seinfeld: The Andrea Doria

Synopsis: Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) finds several bags of Newman's mail in his storage lockup. Kramer (Michael Richards) uses a sick dog to get free cold medication for himself -- and ends up exhibiting a number of disturbing doglike tendencies (he even tries to "tell us something," Lassie style!) George (Jason Alexander Read More

Seinfeld: The Calzone

Synopsis: Hoping to curry favor with George Steinbrenner, George (Jason Alexander) dickers an arrangement with Newman (Wayne Knight) to pick up a low-cost supply of eggplant calzone. Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) goes on several dates that aren't really dates. Kramer (Michael Richards) insists upon getting Read More

Space Jam

Actors: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Theresa Randle, Muggsy Bogues, Billy West, Bill Murray, D. Bradley Baker

Synopsis: Warner Bros. attempted to revitalize its animation division with this family adventure that blended live action and animation in the style of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), reportedly coming in with a price tag of $100 million. Basketball legend Michael Jordan stars as himself, a retired sports Read More

3rd Rock From the Sun: Season 02

Actors: John Lithgow, Jane Curtin, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Synopsis: Season two of the fantasy sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun begins where Season One left off, with Dick Solomon (John Lithgow), the leader of a group of space aliens who've assumed human form to gather intelligence on the planet earth, still locked in the basement of his home, while his alien clone Read More

Seinfeld: The Soul Mate

Synopsis: George (Jason Alexander) is worried that the lawyer for the Susan Ross Foundation thinks he murdered Susan; and later, George has trouble with a "faulty" tape recorder. Kramer (Michael Richards) consults Newman (Wayne Knight) when he falls in love with Jerry's (Jerry Seinfeld) new girlfriend, Pam (Kim Myers Read More

Seinfeld: The Bottle Deposit, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of "The Bottle Deposit," Kramer (Michael Richards) is halfway to Michigan when he spots the car stolen from Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) -- and in so doing messes up his "double deposit" scheme. Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has a vested interest in the stolen car, since it carries the Read More

Seinfeld: The Bottle Deposit, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of "The Bottle Deposit," it's Elaine versus the "Oh Henry Heiress" in a bidding war for a set of golf clubs originally owned by J.F.K. and highly coveted by Peterman (John O'Hurley). Kramer (Michael Richards) and Newman (Wayne Knight) travel to Michigan to get a double refund on Read More

To Die For

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Alison Folland

Synopsis: The price of fame is murder -- or at least it is in the mind of one woman in New Hampshire. Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) has spent most of her life wanting to be famous; she's attractive, speaks well, and imagines herself to be intelligent ("imagines" is the key word here), so she has set her Read More

Jurassic Park

Actors: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck

Synopsis: Steven Spielberg's phenomenally successful sci-fi adventure thriller is graced by state-of-the-art special effects from the team of Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri from George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic. The film follows two dinosaur experts -- Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 2

Synopsis: The second volume in this film noir style TV-anthology series, this collection of short stories revolves around the dark world of detectives and police officers. Called to look into a murder, an investigator (Gary Oldman) discovers that the victim of the crime is none other than his estranged wife Read More

Basic Instinct

Actors: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt

Synopsis: This cold, stylish erotic-thriller grossed over $100 million at the box-office despite vigorous protests at its depiction of gays and women. The shocking opening sequence features a graphic sexual encounter involving a rock-star bound with a white Hermes scarf by an unidentified blond woman. Read More

Hit Woman - The Double Edge

Actors: Susan Lucci, Robert Urich, Michael Woods, Kevin Dunn

T-Bone N Weasel

Actors: Gregory Hines, Christopher Lloyd, Ned Beatty, Rip Torn, Graham Jarvis

Synopsis: In this comical adventure two former convicts think of themselves as clever con men, but they are anything but. After teaming up and stealing a car, the two set off to make a new life conning country hicks. Unfortunately for them, things don't quite turn out as planned. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

JFK

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been Read More

Dead Again

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams

Synopsis: Set in contemporary Los Angeles as well as the Los Angeles of the 1940s, Dead Again explores a romance between two star-crossed lovers -- and the doomed passion they shared in their last lifetime. Los Angeles detective Mike Church (Kenneth Branagh) comes to the aid of mute, amnesia-victim Grace (Emma Thompson Read More

V.I. Warshawski

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning, Angela Goethals, Nancy Paul

Synopsis: Kathleen Turner stars as V.I. Warshawski in Jeff Kanew's film version of the hard-boiled detective character from Sara Paretsky's series of crime novels. Warshawski is a freelance private investigator in Chicago, who lives the part of the hard-boiled detective. But in her heart of hearts, she is a Read More

Born on the Fourth of July

Actors: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Kyra Sedgwick, Brian Larkin, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: The second of three films by co-writer/director Oliver Stone to explore the effects of the Vietnam War (Platoon and Heaven and Earth are the others), Born On The Fourth Of July tells the true story of Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise), a patriotic, All-American small town athlete who shocks his family by Read More

Everybody's All-American

Actors: Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid, Timothy Hutton, John Goodman, Carl Lumbly, Ray Baker

Synopsis: Everybody's All American covers 25 years in the life of college football hero Gavin Grey (Dennis Quaid). When he marries campus sweetheart Babs Rogers (Jessica Lange) and is picked up by the pros, a happily-ever-after denouement is predicted by friends and family. It is clear from the outset Read More

Dirty Dancing

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston

Synopsis: A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in the Peace Corps next summer, so Read More

Forever, Lulu

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Deborah Harry, Alec Baldwin, Annie Golden, Paul Gleason

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young German woman named Elaine Hines (Hanna Schygulla) moves to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Elaine becomes entangled in a mystery and falls in with a group of gangsters who lead her through a series of crazy adventures. Released on video under the title Crazy Read More

Porky's 2: The Next Day

Actors: Dan Monahan, Mark Herrier, Roger Wilson, Cyril O'Reilly

Synopsis: The real world once more takes a back seat to a caricature of itself as the same Florida high-school teens who grossed profits in Porky's by grossing out, have to band together to stop their Shakespeare festival (!!) from being cancelled, due to a crusading, right-wing reverend's attack on the Read More

The Sex O'clock News

Actors: Doug Ballard, Lydia Mahan, Wayne Knight, Kate Weiman, Rob Bartlett

Synopsis: This is a weak attempt by director and co-writer Romano Vanderbes to satirize middle America's standard news broadcasts with as many jokes about sex as possible. The featured station is KSEX and Doug Ballard and Lydia Mahan play the anchors in a broadcast where blue does not mean melancholy. Aside Read More

For Lovers Only

Actors: Katherine Helmond, Gordon Jump, Tracy Pollan, Gary Sandy

Synopsis: The made-for-TV For Lovers Only was the pilot film for a potential series titled Honeymoon Hotel. Set in the Poconos, the story takes place in a fancy honeymoon resort managed by Vernon Bliss (Andy Griffith). Belying his name and professional, Bliss is far from Blissful, especially when bickering Read More