The best Jerry Orbach’s comedy movies

Jerry Orbach

Jerry Orbach

20/10/1935- 28/12/2004
We present our ranking of the best Jerry Orbach’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Jerry Orbach.
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Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/10/1989
  • Character: Jack Rosenthal
An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.

Brewster's Millions

Brewster's Millions
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/05/1985
  • Character: Charley Pegler
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!

Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 04/04/1963
  • Character: Ed Sullivan Show Producer (uncredited)
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.

Mr. Saturday Night

Mr. Saturday Night
5.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/09/1992
  • Character: Phil Gussman
Buddy Young was the comic's comic, beloved by everyone. Now, playing to miniscule crowds in nursing homes, it seems like everybody but Buddy realizes that he should retire. As Buddy looks for work in show business, he realizes that the rest of the world has forgotten the golden days of Buddy Young, and that there just may not be room in the business for an old comic like himself.

Delirious

Delirious
5.8/10
A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

Love Among Thieves

Love Among Thieves
6/10
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ransom for her kidnapped fiancé. She boards a plane for the Latin American city of Ladera, as per instructions, and is met by Mike Chambers. Caroline first believes that Mike is one of the kidnappers, until a mysterious man in a trench-coat tries to kill her, and Mike comes to the rescue. They are then both captured by a band of Mexican bandits, who also may or may not be part of the scheme.

Straight Talk

Straight Talk
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/04/1992
  • Character: Milo Jacoby
Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.

Mastergate

Mastergate
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/11/1992
  • Character: Clifton Byers
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
4.9/10
This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.

The Cemetery Club

The Cemetery Club
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/02/1993
  • Character: Jake Rubin (uncredited)
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.

Fore Play

Fore Play
3.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/03/1975
  • Character: Jerry Lorsey
A three-part omnibus centered around sex and its discontents.

A Gnome Named Gnorm

A Gnome Named Gnorm
4.4/10
A young Los Angeles police officer and a mysterious gnome become unlikely partners as they track a killer. When a sting operation goes awry, officer Casey is blamed for the murder of his colleague and Gnorm the gnome is the only witness.

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/03/1965
  • Character: Pinkerton
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz, soon discovers that Goldfarb used to be a college football star. So he issues him an ultimatum: coach his country's football team, or Fawz will surrender him to the Russians. Goldfarb teams up with undercover reporter Jenny Ericson, and together they plot to escape their dangerous situation.

Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife

Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 04/02/1974
  • Character: Self
Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, dance and comedy vignettes celebrating housewives. Songs include "Married," "I Can Cook, Too," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The cast also attend a party performing "The Little Things We Do Together" from Stephen Sondheim's Company.

Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along

Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along
7.2/10
Lend Us Your Voice Don’t miss this enchanting twist on a timeless tale narrated by none other than Mrs. Potts herself—Angela Lansbury. As Belle and the Beast’s love story unfolds before your eyes, tap your toes and sing along to the songs you know and love like Be Our Guest and Gaston. Tales As Old As Time: French Storytelling on Stage and Screen Step into some of the world’s most enchanting stories. At the Palais du Cinema, you’ll explore 6 distinct gallery cases honoring the costumes, music and artwork that brought French literature to life through cinema, theater, ballet and opera. Catch a glimpse of how these stories inspired artists from around the globe, including those who created such timeless Disney classics as Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and—of course—Beauty and the Beast.

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