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Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she won an A... more

Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.

Leachman's breakthrough role was the nosy and cunning landlady Phyllis Lindstrom in the landmark CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–75), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1974 and 1975; its spin-off, Phyllis (1975–77), earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy.

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969)
Crime, Drama, Western
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to ...
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
George Roy Hill
Cast:
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones
8.0
89%
66
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The Iron Giant
(1999)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Science Fiction
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Brad Bird
Cast:
Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, Cloris Leachman, James Gammon
8.0
96%
85
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Castle in the Sky
(1986)
Action, Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Romance
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Hayao Miyazaki
Cast:
Keiko Yokozawa, Mayumi Tanaka, Minori Terada, Kotoe Hatsui, Kotoe Hatsui
8.0
96%
78
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Young Frankenstein
(1974)
Comedy
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Mel Brooks
Cast:
Gene Wilder, Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle
8.0
94%
80
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Ponyo
(2008)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
The son of a sailor, 5-year-old Sosuke, lives a quiet life on an oceanside cliff with his mother Lisa. One fateful day, he finds a beautiful goldfish trapped in a bottle on the beach and upon rescuing her, names her Ponyo. But she is no ordinary goldfish.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Hayao Miyazaki
Cast:
Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi, George Tokoro, George Tokoro, Tomoko Yamaguchi
7.7
91%
86
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The Croods
(2013)
Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The prehistoric Croods family live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug, his mate Ugga, teenage daughter Eep, son Thunk, and feisty Gran gather food by day and huddle together in a cave at night. When a more evolved caveman named Guy arrives on the scene, Grug is distrustful, but it soon becomes apparent that Guy ...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders
Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman
7.2
71%
55
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The Last Picture Show
(1971)
Drama
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures. Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he...
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Peter Bogdanovich
Cast:
Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman
8.0
100%
93
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Bad Santa
(2003)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Terry Zwigoff
Cast:
Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly
7.0
78%
70
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The Muppet Movie
(1979)
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
James Frawley
Cast:
Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Jerry Nelson
7.6
88%
74
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The Longest Yard
(2005)
Comedy
Pro quarter-back, Paul Crewe and former college champion and coach, Nate Scarboro are doing time in the same prison. Asked to put together a team of inmates to take on the guards, Crewe enlists the help of Scarboro to coach the inmates to victory in a football game 'fixed' to turn out quite another way.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Peter Segal
Cast:
Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, Michael Irvin, Nelly
6.4
31%
48
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History of the World: Part I
(1981)
Comedy
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Mel Brooks
Cast:
Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman
6.9
61%
47
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
(1996)
Animation, Comedy
Mike Judge's slacker duo, Beavis and Butt-Head, wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across America where they manage to accidentally become America's most wanted.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Mike Judge
Cast:
Mike Judge, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore, Robert Stack, Richard Linklater
6.8
70%
64
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The Wedding Ringer
(2015)
Comedy
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams, Doug is referred to Jimmy Callahan, owner and CEO of Best Man, Inc., a company that provides flattering best men for socially challenged guys in need. What ensues is a ...
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Jeremy Garelick
Cast:
Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Kaley Cuoco, Affion Crockett, Jorge Garcia
6.7
29%
35
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Spanglish
(2004)
Comedy
Mexican immigrant and single mother Flor Moreno finds housekeeping work with Deborah and John Clasky, a well-off couple with two children of their own. When Flor admits she can't handle the schedule because of her daughter, Cristina, Deborah decides they should move into the Clasky home. Cultures clash and tensions run high as Flor and...
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
James L. Brooks
Cast:
Adam Sandler, Téa Leoni, Paz Vega, Cloris Leachman, Shelbie Bruce
6.4
53%
48
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Sky High
(2005)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Set in a world where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young Will Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Mike Mitchell
Cast:
Michael Angarano, Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston, Danielle Panabaker, Kevin Heffernan
6.2
73%
62
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Beerfest
(2006)
Comedy
During a trip to Germany to scatter their grandfather's ashes, German-American brothers Todd and Jan discover Beerfest, the secret Olympics of downing stout, and want to enter the contest to defend their family's beer-guzzling honor. Their Old Country cousins sneer at the Yanks' chances, prompting the siblings to return to America to p...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Jay Chandrasekhar
Cast:
Erik Stolhanske, Jay Chandrasekhar, Steve Lemme, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter
6.3
41%
46
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Kiss Me Deadly
(1955)
Mystery, Thriller
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "someth...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Robert Aldrich
Cast:
Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernández, Wesley Addy
7.6
98%
N/A
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Now and Then
(1995)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Lesli Linka Glatter
Cast:
Christina Ricci, Rosie O'Donnell, Thora Birch, Melanie Griffith, Gaby Hoffmann
6.8
30%
50
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New York, I Love You
(2008)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Natalie Portman, Yvan Attal, Fatih Akın, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Brett Ratner, Allen Hughes, Randall Balsmeyer, Shekhar Kapur, Shunji Iwai, Jiang Wen
Cast:
Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Andy García, Shia LaBeouf, Rachel Bilson
6.2
37%
49
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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
(2015)
Comedy, Horror
Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Christopher B. Landon
Cast:
Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, Sarah Dumont, David Koechner
6.3
45%
32
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High Anxiety
(1977)
Comedy
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Mel Brooks
Cast:
Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey
6.7
73%
55
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You Again
(2010)
Comedy, Romance
History -- make that high school -- may repeat itself when Marni learns that Joanna, the mean girl from her past, is set to be her sister-in-law. Before the wedding bells toll, Marni must show her brother that a tiger doesn't change its stripes. On Marni's side is her mother, while Joanna's backed by her wealthy aunt.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Andy Fickman
Cast:
Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Betty White, Kristin Chenoweth, Odette Annable
5.8
17%
28
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Music of the Heart
(1999)
Drama
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Wes Craven
Cast:
Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Gloria Estefan, Cloris Leachman, Michael Angarano
6.8
63%
54
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The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
(2012)
Family
It's Schluufy's birthday, and the Oogieloves (Goobie, Zoozie and Toofie), along with their friends J. Edgar, Windy Window and Ruffy, are organizing a party. (Shh! It's a secret.) Everything is going along just perfectly until J. Edgar trips and loses the last five magical balloons in all of Lovelyloveville--OH NO! The Oogiloves set out...
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Matthew Diamond
Cast:
Christopher Lloyd, Cary Elwes, Jaime Pressly, Cloris Leachman, Chazz Palminteri
6.3
27%
32
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Scary Movie 4
(2006)
Comedy
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
David Zucker
Cast:
Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Craig Bierko, Bill Pullman, Anthony Anderson
5.1
35%
40
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Adult World
(2013)
Comedy
Amy, a naive college graduate who believes she's destined to be a great poet, begrudgingly accepts a job at a sex shop while she pursues a mentorship with reclusive writer Rat Billings.
Runtime:
107 min
6.1
56%
61
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Game Over, Man!
(2018)
Action, Comedy
Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.
Runtime:
100 min
Cast:
Adam Devine, Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson, Jere Burns
5.4
20%
32
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Alex & Emma
(2003)
Comedy, Romance
Writer Alex Sheldon must finish his novel within a month. If he doesn't, he won't get paid. And, if that happens, angry Mafia types to whom he owes money will come looking for him. In order to expedite things, Alex hires typist Emma Dinsmore and begins dictating his novel. The book is about a doomed love affair between a character simi...
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Rob Reiner
Cast:
Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, Sophie Marceau, David Paymer, Paul Wilson
5.6
11%
32
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The Animal
(2001)
Comedy
When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deranged scientist as half man and half animal. His newfound powers are awesome -- but their adverse side effects could take over his life. Now, Marvin must fight to control his crazy primal urges around his new squeeze, Rianna, and his rival...
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Luke Greenfield
Cast:
Rob Schneider, Colleen Haskell, John C. McGinley, Ed Asner, Michael Caton
4.8
30%
43
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Prancer
(1989)
Drama, Family, Fantasy
Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to S...
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
John D. Hancock
Cast:
Sam Elliott, Rebecca Harrell Tickell, Cloris Leachman, Abe Vigoda, Michael Constantine
6.4
67%
N/A
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The Women
(2008)
Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Diane English
Cast:
Cloris Leachman, India Ennenga, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing
5.0
14%
27
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Dillinger
(1973)
Action, Crime, Drama
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson h...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
John Milius
Cast:
Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton
7.0
92%
N/A
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The Beverly Hillbillies
(1993)
Comedy
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Penelope Spheeris
Cast:
Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin
5.0
22%
37
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Hanging Up
(2000)
Comedy, Drama
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Diane Keaton
Cast:
Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau, Myndy Crist
4.9
12%
33
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Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?
(2016)
Comedy
Spurred by a gun incident at a school, the women of one Texas town lead a movement to get rid of guns by withholding sex from their husbands.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Matt Cooper
Cast:
Andrea Anders, Matt Passmore, Cloris Leachman, Katherine McNamara, John Michael Higgins
6.4
N/A
7
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Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget
(2008)
Comedy
The aggravatingly amiable star of "Full House," "America's Funniest Home Videos"
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Joel Gallen
Cast:
Bob Saget, John Stamos, Tony Besson, Susie Essman, Jeff Garlin
7.5
N/A
N/A
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A Troll in Central Park
(1994)
Animation, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
A friendly troll with a magic green thumb grows one flower too many for the queen, whose laws require all trolls to be mean ugly and scare humans whenever possible. As a punishment, he is exiled to a world of concrete, where he should live a life of proper trolldom: Manhattan.
Runtime:
76 min
Director:
Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Cast:
Dom DeLuise, Phillip Glasser, Tawny Sunshine Glover, Cloris Leachman, Hayley Mills
5.4
17%
N/A
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Annabelle's Wish
(1997)
Adventure, Animation, Family, Music
Annabelle - a calf who has a special wish for Christmas - wants to be a reindeer and help Santa Claus drive his sleigh as he delivers his presents! Annabelle's friends tell her not to get her hopes up, but to everyone's surprise, Santa does indeed meet up with Annabelle, and the calf gets to help Santa make the holiday special for one ...
Runtime:
54 min
Director:
Roy Wilson
Cast:
Randy Travis, Kath Soucie, Aria Noelle Curzon, Jerry Van Dyke, Jay Johnson
7.2
N/A
N/A
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My Little Pony: The Movie
(1986)
Animation, Family
The first day of Spring is on its way and the Little Ponies are preparing for it with a big festival. But all the fun may come to an end if the witch Hydia has her way! Can the Ponies defeat Hydia and her evil daughters, Reeka and Draggle? More importantly, can they save Ponyland from the witches’ concoction, the strange purple goo cal...
Runtime:
86 min
Cast:
Madeline Kahn, Danny DeVito, Danny DeVito, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Scavenger Hunt
(1979)
Comedy
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.
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Michael Schultz
Cast:
Richard Benjamin, Cleavon Little, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Ruth Gordon
5.9
N/A
N/A