The best Louis Zorich’s movies

Louis Zorich

Louis Zorich

12/02/1924- 30/01/2018
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7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/04/2011
  • Character: Grampa
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.

Fiddler on the Roof

Fiddler on the Roof
8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 03/11/1971
  • Character: Constable
This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century Czarist Russia. Nominated for eight Academy Awards.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 14/12/1988
  • Character: Greek Millionaire
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can be the first to swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000.

The Muppets Take Manhattan

The Muppets Take Manhattan
6.8/10
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.

Coogan's Bluff

Coogan's Bluff
6.4/10
Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport, he escapes and Coogan heads into the city to recapture him.

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman
7.2/10
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.

Kiss & Tell

Kiss & Tell
4.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/10/1997
  • Character: Louis
A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview her friends to find out who killed her and why.

Bloodhounds of Broadway

Bloodhounds of Broadway
5.3/10
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Right", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.

Flanagan

Flanagan
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/10/1985
  • Character: Lerner
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.

Popi

Popi
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/05/1969
  • Character: Penebaz
Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day he notices that Cubans who escape are lionized and given exceptional benefits. He thinks up a plot to have his sons washed ashore as cuban immigrants who will be adopted by rich anglos.

Joe the King

Joe the King
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/10/1999
  • Character: Judge
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.

The Don Is Dead

The Don Is Dead
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/11/1973
  • Character: Mitch
After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

Olympia

Olympia
7.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 11/11/2018
  • Character: Himself
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stalwart New Yorker and beloved stage and screen treasure.

City of Hope

City of Hope
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/10/1991
  • Character: Mayor Baci
This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father. Other characters in this ensemble drama about urban conflict and corruption include Asteroid , an unstable homeless person, and Wynn, an idealistic young politician.

Missing Pieces

Missing Pieces
5.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/03/1992
  • Character: Ochenko
As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician friend, Lou, are soon thrust into a comic chase, as an assortment of unsavoury characters, underworld figures, and even private investigators, are after them for the inheritance - and they don't know what it is!

For Pete's Sake

For Pete's Sake
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/06/1974
  • Character: Nick
Henry is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete-- including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with...

A Fish in the Bathtub

A Fish in the Bathtub
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/03/1999
  • Character: Morris
The fish stays...the marriage goes! A comedy about long term relationships.

Nurse

Nurse
6.5/10
Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot for the short-lived TV series.

Made For Each Other

Made For Each Other
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/12/1971
  • Character: Pandora's Father
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.

The World of Jim Henson

The World of Jim Henson
7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 23/11/1994
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Episode of Great Performances about Jim Henson

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