The best Richard Mulligan’s comedy movies

Richard Mulligan

Richard Mulligan

13/11/1932- 26/09/2000
We present our ranking of the best Richard Mulligan’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 Richard Mulligan.
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Oliver & Company

Oliver & Company
6.6/10
This animated take on Oliver Twist re-imagines Oliver as an adorable orphaned kitten who struggles to survive in New York City and falls in with a band of canine criminals led by an evil human. First, Oliver meets Dodger, a carefree mutt with street savoir faire. But when Oliver meets wealthy Jenny on one of the gang's thieving missions, his life changes forever.

Little Big Man

Little Big Man
7.5/10
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

The Big Bus

The Big Bus
5.6/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 23/06/1976
  • Character: Claude Crane
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?

Micki & Maude

Micki & Maude
6/10
TV reporter Rob Salinger is married to Micki, but because she's always busy working, they hardly ever spend time together. One night at which he got stood up by Micki again, Rob meets cellist Maude and they soon get romanticly involved. When it turns out Maude is pregnant with his baby, Rob decides to marry Maude. When he's on the verge of telling Micki, she tells him she's pregnant, so he doesn't have the heart to leave her, but he marries Maude anyway. Now married to two pregnant women who don't know about each other, Rob has a busy time taking care of both and keep them from finding out.

Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther
4.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 03/12/1982
  • Character: Clouseau's Father
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

The Heavenly Kid

The Heavenly Kid
6.3/10
When Bobby dies in a car accident he is not allowed to enter heaven but has to stay in one of the lower levels until he has worked enough as an guardian angel in order to deserve paradise. One of his jobs is Lenny, a gifted boy, who loves his schoolmate Sharon who is the most beautiful girl of the class. But she does not even notice him so that he is about to commit suicide. Bobby prevents this and dresses Lenny up making him a playboy and tough guy so that he gets what he wants although Bobby knows that this is not the best. Thinking that his job is done, Bobby realizes that Lenny's mother is his former girlfriend who has married another guy. Although not being allowed he makes himself visible to her...

Teachers

Teachers
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/10/1984
  • Character: Herbert Gower
A teacher tries to overcome his frustration teaching a high-school that seems to be full of flunkies.

Meatballs Part II

Meatballs Part II
3.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/07/1984
  • Character: Coach Giddy
The second in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake area to expand Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. Meanwhile, a tough, inner city punk, nicknamed Flash, is at Camp Sasquash for community service as a counselor-in-training where he sets his sights on the naive and intellectual Cheryl, while Flash's young charges befriend an alien, whom they name Meathead, also staying at the camp for the summer.

A Fine Mess

A Fine Mess
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/08/1986
  • Character: Wayne 'Turnip' Parragella
Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And there's also the mob boss whom the two guys work for who planned the fixing thing whose wife is having an affair with the actor.

Love with the Proper Stranger

Love with the Proper Stranger
7.2/10
Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion. Rocky agrees to help, but after seeing the unsanitary abortion facility, he refuses to let Angie go through with the procedure and attempts to make her an honest woman.

S.O.B.

S.O.B.
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/07/1981
  • Character: Felix Farmer
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

The Muppets Go Hollywood

The Muppets Go Hollywood
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamily
  • Release: 16/05/1979
  • Character: Himself
In this one-hour special, Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movie. Hosts Dick van Dyke and Rita Moreno interview the wide array of celebrities and Muppets who attend the event. Gary Owens serves as off-camera announcer, and appears on-screen to introduce Miss Piggy.

Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/1979
  • Character: Marvin Dummitz
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars - which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family and hired help, who wins a madcap scavenger hunt.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
6.2/10
Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

40 Pounds of Trouble

40 Pounds of Trouble
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/01/1962
  • Character: Bellboy
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.

Doin' Time

Doin' Time
4.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/05/1985
  • Character: Mongo Mitchell
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.

London Suite

London Suite
5.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/09/1996
  • Character: Dennis Cummings
On one day at an English Hotel, four different stories are shown. Diana is in London to promote her Television Series and her ex-husband Sidney shows up to ask her for money for his gay lover. Mark and Annie come to London for the Wimbledon Tennis matches, but they lose their tickets and Mark's back goes out. Debra is on her honeymoon with Paul, but Paul is missing and Debra lies to everyone she meets as to where Paul is. Sharon and Lauren are on a shop till you drop trip and Sharon meets Dennis, an older man who seems to be interested in her.

Dog's Best Friend

Dog's Best Friend
5.7/10
Animals communicate with a boy while he's staying at his grandparents' farm and warn him about an impending foreclosure.

Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?

Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?
5.2/10
The visitor that you might expect for Christmas is not who shows up in this film. Instead, a mysterious stranger (Bridges) befriends a small-town eccentric (Mulligan) and confides in him that he is from another planet.

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