Wayne NewtonFilmography

Born:: April 3, 1942 in Norfolk, VA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Aptly nicknamed "Mr. Vegas" for his constant presence in Glitter Gulch, master showman Wayne Newton swept audiences off their feet for many a decade with a slick crooning style modeled upon such influences as Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin (one of Newton's personal mentors). Newton distinguished...Read More

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Smokin' Aces

Actors: Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys, Ray Liotta, Jeremy Piven

Synopsis: When a shifty magician turns state's evidence against a Las Vegas underworld heavy, the high price placed on his head sparks a fevered race to rub the snitch out and collect a tidy paycheck in Narc director Joe Carnahan's dark action comedy. Buddy "Aces" Israel (Jeremy Piven) is a small-time Read More

1/26/07
Dancing With the Stars: Season 05

2007
Into the Night: The Benny Mardones Story

Actors: Benny Mardones

2002
Ocean's Eleven

Actors: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: A rag-tag group of con artists and ex-cons team up for the heist to end all heists in this high-profile remake of the 1960 Rat Pack favorite. As with its predecessor, Ocean's Eleven opens with its titular hero Danny Ocean (George Clooney stepping into the Frank Sinatra role) eager for a new Read More

12/7/01
Ally McBeal: They Eat Horses, Don't They

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

1998
Vegas Vacation

Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, Wayne Newton, Marisol Nichols

Synopsis: This is the fourth in a series of movies that began with National Lampoon's Vacation in 1983 and feature the family headed by Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) going on wacky vacations. This time, the Griswolds visit Las Vegas. Clark immediately goes to the blackjack table and starts blowing all his Read More

1997
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Viva Lost Wages

Synopsis: When Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) is given a trip to Las Vegas for his birthday, he invites Will (Will Smith) along--and that's only his first mistake. Sure enough, the boys end up at the gambling tables, where after a astonishing streak of luck they end up flat broke. Clearly, there is no other Read More

1995
Night of the Running Man

Actors: Scott Glenn, Andrew McCarthy, John Glover, Wayne Newton

Synopsis: In this taut thriller, a Las Vegas taxi driver must run for his life after stealing a cool million's worth of Mafia money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Best of the Best 2

Actors: Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Chris Penn, Edan Gross, Ralph Moeller

Synopsis: In Best of the Best 2, Alex Grady and his partner, Tommy Lee, turn their karate talents toward crime fighting. An illegal fighting club, headed by Wayne Newton, is a center for crime and criminals. Alex and Tommy decide to take it down but first they have to fight their way through Brakus, the big Read More

1993
Roseanne: Vegas, Vegas (Part 2)

Synopsis: Dan and Roseanne go to a nightclub and a wedding chapel in Las Vegas with the newly married Arnie (Tom Arnold) and Nancy (Sandra Bernhard). Wayne Newton guest stars as himself. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Dark Backward

Actors: Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Rob Lowe

Synopsis: Writer/director Adam Rifkin's The Dark Backward is set in a dark, grimy, garbage-strewn urban netherworld, where a company named "Blump's" apparently owns everything. Marty Malt (Judd Nelson of The Breakfast Club) is an unhappy garbageman who moonlights as an atrociously unfunny standup comic. His Read More

1991
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Actors: Andrew Dice Clay, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley, Morris Day, Lauren Holly

Synopsis: Controversial and often offensive stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay made his debut as a feature film star in this crude comedy. Fairlane is a "rock and roll detective" who works in the music business, has an office on Sunset Boulevard, and drives a 1957 Ford, with clothing to match. He floats Read More

7/11/90
Full House: 5 Viva Las Joey

Synopsis: Appearing as himself, singer Wayne Newton) hires Joey (David Coulier) for his Las Vegas nightclub act (it seems that a group of trained chimps have fallen ill). Disturbingly, Joey invites everyone to attend his premiere performance except his father, Col. Gladstone (Arlen Dean Snyder). Thus, DJ Read More

1990
Licence to Kill

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Timothy Dalton is better in Licence to Kill than in his first James Bond endeavor (The Living Daylights), but he still seems uncomfortable on the right side of the law. This time around, Bond is working on his own rather than on behalf of the British Secret Service. His American friend Felix Read More

1989
Rock & Roll Call

1984
Wayne Newton at the London Palladium

1983
80 Steps to Jonah

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Wayne Newton, Jo Van Fleet, Keenan Wynn, Diana Ewing, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: Wayne Newton is the hero of the warm-hearted family feature 80 Steps to Jonah. The piping-voiced Newton is accused of car thievery, but who could doubt the sincerity of that angelic face? On the lam from the cops, he takes a job at a summer camp for blind children. Passing himself off as the new Read More

1969
Bonanza: The Unwritten Commandment

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Wayne Newton, Anne Jeffreys

Synopsis: Singer Wayne Newton makes his dramatic debut as Andy Walker, the son of domineering dirt farmer Willard Walker (Malcolm Atterbury). Desirous of pursuing a musical career, Andy is stopped in his tracks by his hidebound father. Ben Cartwright intervenes in this domestic dilemma-and along the way Read More

1966
Bonanza: A Christmas Story

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Wayne Newton, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Not surprisingly, "A Christmas Story" originally aired on December 25, 1966. Wayne Newton returns to Bonanza in the role of singer Andy Walker, who herein agrees to perform at the annual Oprhan's Christmas Benefit. The fly (or grinch) in the ointment is Andy's crooked uncle/manager Thaddeus Cade Read More

1966
The Lucy Show: Lucy Discovers Wayne Newton

Actors: Wayne Newton, Gary Morton

Synopsis: A decidedly pre-Las Vegas Wayne Newton makes his TV sitcom debut as "himself" -- that is, a bucolic farm boy named Wayne Newton, who happens to have a gorgeous singing voice. Persuading banker Mooney (Gale Gordon) to arrange for Wayne to audition in front of a major record-company executive Read More

1965