Howard Hesseman Movies

Matty Perlman and Alan Corkus are old friends. He wants them to be more than friends. Sometimes she does too.

Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her real mother.

When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go...

A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.

Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's...

Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves him one step behind a killer.

A committee investigating TV's first uncensored network examines a typical day's programming, which includes shows, commercials, news programs, you...

Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from...

John Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches.

Reclusive Rubin Farr teams up with vocal but unsuccessful multi-level salesman Ed Tuttle on a quest to bury Rubin's dead cat in the "perfect spot."...

A documentary of the incredible life of actress Valerie Perrine and her battle with Parkinson's.

On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still...

Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on...

Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts, who battles boredom and a tyrannical captain to the...

In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with famous cartoonists AND their creations!

An ex-comedian fights to keep a failing nightclub alive as a showcase for aspiring young comics.

A Session with the Committee

Jory is a fifteen-year-old boy who joins a horse-drive after his father is killed by a drunkard. The drive's leader and a likable cowhand take the...

This short film satirizes French auteur theory. An earnest critic rediscovers washed-up director Seymour Z. Fishko ("Revenge of the 80-Foot...

Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.