Whoopi Goldberg Filmography

Snow Buddies

Actors: Jimmy Bennett, Dominic Scott Kay, Josh Flitter

Synopsis: The Air Bud saga continues with this, the seventh installment in the Disney series. This time around, the cute and cuddly puppies from Air Buddies find themselves in the icy terrain of Alaska, where they'll meet some new friends, compete in a sled race, and try to find their way home. Richard Karn Read More

Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Based on the groundbreaking show Meerkat Manor, which followed the lives of a family of Meerkats living in the Kalahari desert, this film pays tribute to Flower, the matriarch of the family on the series. Just as on the show, the movie combines traditional nature footage with dramatic narration Read More

Farce of the Penguins

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Saget, Lewis Black, Christina Applegate, Mo'nique

Synopsis: Animal Planet aesthetics get infused with blush-inducing blue-humor sensibilities as director Bob Saget teams with an all-star cast of comics including Lewis Black, Tracy Morgan, Jason Alexander, Dane Cook, and Whoopi Goldberg to prove that sometimes penguins aren't as sweet as they appear to be Read More

Our Country, USA to Z

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Actors: Don Rickles, Clint Eastwood, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Guest

Synopsis: As one of the few heavyweight comedians of Vegas's "Golden Age" to topline standup routines in 21st century Glitter Gulch - a time and place that saw him still reeling in massive audiences well into his 70s and 80s - Don Rickles qualifies as a show business legend. Rickles, of course, pioneered Read More

Everyone's Hero

Actors: Rob Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Jake T. Austin, William H. Macy, Mandy Patinkin

Synopsis: A young baseball fan sets out on a cross-country quest to recover Babe Ruth's stolen bat and restore his father's good name in a computer animated family adventure that shows you're never too young to be a hero. Yankee Irving (voice of Jake T. Austin) may not be the best base-runner in his Read More

Homie Spumoni

Actors: Donald Faison, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Joey Fatone, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Donald Faison, Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Joey Fatone, and Whoopi Goldberg star in actor-turned-writer/director Mike Cerrone's identity crisis comedy concerning a young black man raised as an Italian-American. Renato may be black, but don't tell him that. Ever since he was just a young boy Renato was Read More

Comic Relief 2006

Actors: Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams

The Sophisticated Misfit

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Bamboo Ben, Crazy Al, Glen Agle, Holden Westland

The Aristocrats

Synopsis: "A family walks into a talent agent's office..." So begins "The Aristocrats," a joke kept mostly secret by stand-up comedians for decades. An intentionally "bad" joke, the laughs in The Aristocrats aren't in the punch-line (one of the only elements that's the same every time), but in the set-up Read More

Jiminy Glick in La La Wood

Actors: Martin Short, Jan Hooks, Linda Cardellini, Janeane Garofalo, John Michael Higgins

Synopsis: The world's most obnoxious celebrity talk-show host demonstrates how he rose to mediocrity in this pungent show business satire. Jiminy Glick (Martin Short) is a corpulent entertainment reporter who is looking to kick his career into high gear. Hoping to snag some celebrity interviews, Jiminy and Read More

Doogal

Actors: Tom Baker, Jon Stewart, Robbie Williams, Daniel Tay, Bill Nighy, Jimmy Fallon, William H. Macy, Jim Broadbent, Whoopi Goldberg, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: A plucky little girl and her dog join their magical pals to save the world in the computer-animated comedy-adventure for the whole family. The Enchanted Village is a happy place ruled by the good-natured wizard Zebedee where young Florence and her dog, Doogal, come to play with their friends Read More

Racing Stripes

Actors: Hayden Panettiere, Bruce Greenwood, M. Emmet Walsh, Wendie Malick, Frankie Muniz

Synopsis: A horse of a different pattern becomes a spoiler in a high-stakes race in the family-friendly comedy-drama. Nolan Walsh (Bruce Greenwood) is a farmer who once earned his living training racehorses before his wife was killed in an accident while riding, which led him to leave the racing game. Nolan Read More

Whoopi: Back to Broadway - The 20th Anniversary

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg first found fame while performing a one-woman show on Broadway in the beginning of the 1980s. Two decades later she celebrated that anniversary by performing in a new one-woman show featuring many of the same characters from that original production. This DVD captures one of those Read More

Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2

Actors: Jon Voight, Scott Baio, Vanessa Angel

Synopsis: Directed by Bob Clark, Super Babies: Baby Geniuses 2 follows a new generation of ultra-smart talking toddlers who have landed in the center of a dastardly scheme perpetrated by media mogul Bill Biscane (Jon Voight). With the help of Kahuna (Leo, Myles, and Gerry Fitzgerald); part spy, part Read More

P3K: Pinocchio3000

Actors: Carlos Latre, Lucrecia, Marta Ullod, Emilio Freixas, Pep Torrents

Synopsis: Daniel Robichaud's P3K: Pinocchio 3000 takes the famous fairy tale and sets it in the future. The childless Gepetto build a robot that looks like a boy. Gepetto has invented a special device that allows the robot to feel human emotion. The mayor of the town Gepetto lives in rules the city in a Read More

The Lion King 1½

Actors: Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Julie Kavner, Jerry Stiller, Matthew Broderick

Synopsis: Ten years after The Lion King shot to the top at the box office and first introduced the characters of Simba (Matthew Broderick) and his pals Timon (Nathan Lane) and Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella), Disney presented this retelling of the Academy Award-winning animated musical. Switching the perspective to Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Philip Casnoff, Nestor Carbonell, Rosa Blasi, Patricia Richardson, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Tamera Mowry, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis:
Joining the cast of the Lifetime network doctor series Strong Medicine during its fifth season is Tamera Mowry as Dr. Kayla Thornton, new first-year resident at Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Women's Health Clinic. Though raised in a rural community, Kayla has returned to her home town of Read More

The N Word

Synopsis: The biggest names in show business come together to offer their opinions on one of the most inflammatory words in the English language in filmmaker Todd Williams' revealing and thought-provoking documentary. In its long and complex history, the word "nigger" has gone from a cutting and derogatory Read More

Good Fences

Crew: Producer

Actors: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Zachary Simmons Glover, Ryan Michelle Bathe, Ashley Archer

Synopsis: A black family gets a first-hand look at the trials and tribulations of upward mobility and suburban segregation in this pointed comedy. In 1973, Tom (Danny Glover) is an African-American attorney who is determined to raise himself up by his own bootstraps from his position near the bottom of the Read More

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

The Official 2003 Stanley Cup Championship: New Jersey Devils

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: With the help of ace goaltender Martin Brodeur, the New Jersey Devils captured The Stanley Cup at the end of the 2002-2003 NHL season. This film documents that championship year and features a wealth of game footage, as well as interviews with various people associated with the team. ~ Perry Read More

Whoopi [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Wren T. Brown, Omid Djalili, Elizabeth Regen

Synopsis: Assembled by the same production team responsible for Roseanne, this NBC sitcom starred Whoopi Goldberg as hard-drinking, chain-smoking Mavis Rae, a former pop star with but one hit song to her name. With her 15 minutes of fame a distant memory, Mavis was reduced to running a second-class hotel Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 04

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Patricia Richardson, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliott, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: The fourth season of the feminist-oriented doctor series Strong Medicine begins with an immediate followup to the previous season's cliffhanger ending. As the firefighter boyfriend of the Rittenhouse Clinic's director Dr. Lu Delgado (Rose Blasi) hovers between life and death after being shot by Read More

Blizzard

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Whoopi Goldberg, Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollak, Brittany Bristow, Zoë Warner

Synopsis: A young girl still saddened by the decision of her best friend's family to move away learns an important life lesson about change from her eccentric aunt in this family-friendly holiday tale directed by LeVar Burton and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Kevin Pollak, Christopher Plummer, and Zoë Warner. Read More

Bear in the Big Blue House: The Great Bandini

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg

Star Trek: Nemesis

Actors: Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Jude Ciccolella, Jonathan Frakes, Shannon Cochran, Alan Dale

Synopsis: The tenth film in Paramount's highly lucrative sci-fi franchise is also positioned as the last for the entire original Next Generation crew. En route to the honeymoon of William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) to Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart Read More

Searching for Debra Winger

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, Emmanuelle Béart, Katrin Cartlidge, Laura Dern

Synopsis: Directed by actress Rosanna Arquette, this candid documentary is not only about the iconoclastic and somewhat reclusive film star Debra Winger (who does not even appear onscreen until an hour into the film), but also about the trials and tribulations of actresses in Hollywood who have reached Read More

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Synopsis: Among the tasks undertaken by the WPA's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s was to transcribe the memories of those former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Read More

Fighting for Freedom: Revolution & Civil War

Synopsis: Filmmakers Phillip B. Kunhardt III, Nancy Steiner, and Peter W. Kunhardt explore the eternal struggle for liberty in America while simultaneously illuminating the hypocritical underlying factors that undermined the colonist's bold "experiment in freedom," in a revealing documentary featuring the Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 03

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Jenifer Lewis, Patricia Richardson, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliott, Janine Turner, Philip Casnoff, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: Season Three of "Strong Medicine" marks the departure of series regular Janine Turner as Dr. Dana Stone, who with her earthier counterpart Dr. Lu Delgado (Rose Blasi) has since the outset of the series been in charge of the Rittenhouse Women's Health Clinic in Philadelphia. Having resumed her Read More

Liberty's Kids [Animated Series]

Actors: Reo Jones, Christine Lundquist, Kathleen Barr, D. Kevin Williams, Annette Bening

Synopsis: Coproduced by the DIC animation firm and PBS, Liberty's Kids was a half-hour historical cartoon series set during the American Revolution. The principal characters were Sarah Phillips and James Hiller, apprentices both to the multifaceted Benjamin Franklin. The fact that Sarah was loyal to the Read More

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

Actors: Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: What would life amongst the Muppets have been without their unofficial leader Kermit the Frog? That's the question posed by this made-for-TV confection, which not only spoofs the Yuletide classic It's a Wonderful Life, but also takes satirical aim at such pop cultural phenomena as Moulin Rouge and Fear Factor Read More

Absolutely Fabulous: Gay

Actors: Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This two-hour spin-off of the raunchy British sitcom Absolutely Fabulous was originally telecast in the U.K. under the title Absolutely Fabulous: Gay. Now a buyer for Jeremy's, a trendy clothing store, hard-living and hard-drinking Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley) comes to New York during Fashion Week 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

Kingdom Come

Actors: LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox, Loretta Devine, Anthony Anderson, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Based on the play Dearly Departed by David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones (who also penned this screenplay), this new comedy from the director of Jason's Lyric looks at a family gathering after one of their clan dies of a stroke. In the midst of a sweltering summer, the Slocumb family convenes. Read More

Monkeybone

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Bridget Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Chris Kattan

Synopsis: This feverishly energetic comedy combines stop-motion animation and live action from director Henry Selick, creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) and James and the Giant Peach (1996). Brendan Fraser stars as Stu Miley, a cartoonist who created a randy monkey character called Monkeybone Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 02

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliott, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: The second season of Lifetime's feminist medical series Strong Medicine begins with the episode "Donors", which includes a characteristic ethical clash between Rittenhouse Women's Health Clinic directors Dr. Lu Delgado (Rose Blasi) and Dr. Dana Stone (Janine Turner) over treatement of a girl who Read More

Call Me Claus

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Nigel Hawthorne, Victor Garber

Synopsis: As a child, Lucy Cullins asked Santa Claus to bring her father home from Vietnam. But when her dad returned in a pine box, the embittered Lucy decided that Christmas -- and every other holiday for that matter -- was a humbug. Now all grown-up (and played by Whoopi Goldberg), Lucy is the Read More

What Makes a Family

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Co-produced by Barbra Streisand and Whoopi Goldberg, the made-for-TV What Makes a Family stars Brooke Shields, cast against type as a woman happily committed to a lesbian relationship. Yearning for a family of their own, Janine Nielsen (Shields) and her partner, Sandy Cataldi (Cherry Jones), elect Read More

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

Actors: Rene Russo, Jason Alexander, Piper Perabo, Randy Quaid, Robert De Niro, June Foray, Keith Scott

Synopsis: The pride of Frostbite Falls and Whatsamatta U's most famous alumni find their way onto the big screen (and the real world) in this comedy inspired by the popular cartoon series. Years after their TV show is cancelled, Rocky the Flying Squirrel (voice of June Foray) and Bullwinkle J. Moose (voice Read More

Strong Medicine [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: One of the longest-running dramatic series on cable's Lifetime network, the weekly, hour-long Strong Medicine has been described, a bit too superficially than it deserves, as "ER for women." The series was cocreated by Whoopi Goldberg, who also appeared in the pilot episode as Dr. Lydia Emerson Read More

Chuck Jones: Extremes and Inbetweens - A Life in Animation

Actors: Chuck Jones, Leonard Maltin, Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Chuck Jones: Extremes and Inbetweens - A Life in Animation was originally telecast as a PBS "Great Performances" episode on November 22, 2000. Warner Bros. animator Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones created many cartoon characters, including Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, and the Road Runner. A key Read More

Strong Medicine: Season 01

Crew: Executive Producer, Show Creator

Actors: Rosa Blasi, Janine Turner, Jenifer Lewis, Josh Coxx, Brennan Elliott, Christopher Marquette

Synopsis: The female-centric medical series Strong Medicine launches its first season as Dr. Lydia Emerson, played by series cocreator Whoopi Goldberg) somewhat forcibly negotiates a merger between the financially strapped South Philadelphia storefront clinic run by the feisty and outspoken Dr. Lu Delgado Read More

More Dogs Than Bones

Synopsis: The crime comedy More Dogs Than Bones starts with female gangster Victoria Galetti hiding one million dollars in cash in the bags of Raj Lukla -- a foreigner flying into town in order to visit his nephew Andy. Victoria's underlings are assigned to retrieve the cash, but learn that the task is far Read More

Girl, Interrupted

Actors: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and Read More

Get Bruce!

Actors: Bruce Vilanch, Bette Midler, Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: This is a documentary portrait of a Hollywood comedy writer cited by many of entertainment's biggest stars as their comedic "secret weapon." Bruce Vilanch is a rotund, hirsute New Jersey native who left a job at a Chicago newspaper in the 1970s to become a gag writer for singer and actress Bette Midler Read More

The Deep End of the Ocean

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Jackson, Ryan Merriman, John Kapelos

Synopsis: Beth Cappadora (Michelle Pfeiffer), a photographer, is married to Pat (Treat Williams), a restaurateur, and they would seem to have a perfect life in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1988, they have three small children that Beth takes along to her high school reunion in Chicago. While checking in at a Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Tina Majorino

Synopsis: Originally produced for NBC television, this adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic features an impressive cast, including Miranda Richardson, Martin Short, Ben Kingsley, Whoopi Goldberg, Gene Wilder, Peter Ustinov, and George Wendt. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Jackie's Back

Actors: Jenifer Lewis, Tim Curry, TV Blake, Tangie Ambrose, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: Soul diva Jackie Washington is determined to hit the comeback trail but seems to be having trouble finding the on-ramp in the mock-documentary comedy Jackie's Back. Jackie (played by Jenifer Lewis) was a Rhythm and Blues singer who had a few late '60's and early 70's hits, including "Yield" and Read More

The Mao Game

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joshua Miller, Piper Laurie, Kirstie Alley, Jeffrey Tambor, Jodi Leesley

Synopsis: Child-actor turned novelist Joshua Miller now adds directing to his resume with this screen adaptation of his novel The Mao Game. Piper Laurie plays an older woman who gave up an early career as a hoofer to become a respected photographer. Her daughter (Kirstie Alley) has become a film star with Read More

In the Wild: Baby Animals with Whoopi Goldberg at the San Diego Zoo

Synopsis: Join Whoopi Goldberg as she visits the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park. You will get to see Whoopi feeding a baby rhino and greeting an albino koala bear. Background information is provided about the conditions that many of these animals are forced to cope with when living in the wild. For Read More

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

Actors: Randy Quaid, Whoopi Goldberg, Roger Daltrey, Colm Meaney, Kieran Culkin

Synopsis: An American businessman rents a cottage in Ireland, only to find the cottage is also inhabited by leprechauns as well. Soon, the American finds himself embroiled in a fierce dispute between the leprechauns and their enemies, the fairies, that only he can help settle. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Alegria

Actors: Rene Bazinet, Frank Langella, Julie Cox, Heathcote Williams, Clipper Miano

Synopsis: The acclaimed Canadian performance troupe Cirque de Soleil, which combines acrobatics, magic, music, and theater into spectacular stage productions, brings one of their most popular shows to the screen in Alegria. Frac (Rene Bazinet), a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression Read More

Foxbusters (Animated Series)

Synopsis: From the same folks who brought you such cartoon delights as Danger Mouse and Count Duckula, the animated British series Foxbusters was a spoof of the "maverick freedom fighter" genre. The title characters were three hens -- Ransome, Jeffries, and Sims -- who devoted their lives to protecting Read More

The Rugrats Movie

Actors: Elizabeth Daily, Christine Cavanaugh, Kath Soucie, Cheryl Chase, Tara Charendoff

Synopsis: Based on the popular Nickelodeon TV series Rugrats, this is the first full-length feature animated movie to star the little tots. It's the story of diaper-clad kids, told from a baby's point- of-view, and they were one of the hottest-selling toy franchises of the late '90s. The film features a Read More

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Actors: John Goodman, Eric Idle, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Simmons

Synopsis: Bill Kowalchuk produced and directed this animated interpretation of the familiar Christmas fable about the eccentric reindeer, highlighted by nine musical numbers. Following the song's basic outline, dad Blitzen is embarrassed by the antics of cute yet offbeat Rudolph who has a glowing nose, gets Read More

A Knight in Camelot

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Michael York, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: In this romantic fantasy adventure, a lady scientist's experiment whisks her back to King Arthur's court. While there, the plucky lass proves that modern women are as tough as medieval men, and she soon becomes the mythical king's most favored knight. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Actors: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Regina King, Whoopi Goldberg, Suzzanne Douglas

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