Acting

Philip Roth

Born — Died

1930-07-06 — 2002-07-15

Place of birth

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

18 titles

Philip Roth (July 6, 1930 – July 15, 2002) was an American television and film actor. Roth appeared in over twenty television shows and movies beginning in 1961 with a small role in an episode of Tallahassee 7000. He had roles in several notable films of the early 1970s, such as What's Up, Doc? where he played 'Mr Jones', Catch-22 as 'Doctor', One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as 'Woolsey', and Harry and Tonto as 'Vegas Gambler'. He also had roles in numerous smaller films as well as several TV shows such as The Monkees as 'Howard Needleman,' Tales from the Dark Side as 'Sam Larchmont/Wilson Farber' as well as Cagney and Lacey as 'Sullivan'.

Known for

8.0

Maxwell Smart, a hilariously inept and maladroit secret agent for CONTROL, battles the nefarious—though equally incompetent—KAOS.

Get Smart

1965

6.7

Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.

Charlie's Angels

1976

7.4

Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.

Barney Miller

1975

7.2

Tales from the Darkside is an anthology horror TV series created by George A. Romero, each episode was an individual short story that ended with a plot twist. The series' episodes spanned the genres of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and some episodes featured elements of black comedy or more lighthearted themes.

Tales from the Darkside

1984

6.5

Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out of TV and movie central casting, with full knowledge that their existence is part of a weekly television series.

The Monkees

1966

8.4

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

Film credits

1980s · 2 titles

5.7

A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.

The Baltimore Bullet

1980

3.4

When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.

First Family

1980

1970s · 9 titles

8.4

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

6.7

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.

Catch-22

1970

7.4

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

What's Up, Doc?

1972

5.9

Lawyer Stephen Blume, who specializes in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.

Blume in Love

1973

7.1

Harry Coombes is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.

Harry and Tonto

1974

Tom and Jay are best friends. Tom is married to Sally and Jay is single. Tom and Jay are also stand-up comedians and their mishaps as they seek stardom as headliners are related.

The Chopped Liver Brothers

1977

7.3

Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.

Whiffs

1975

5.6

Some unknown source has interrupted all television transmissions around the world. In place of the regular broadcasts, a lineup of extremely tasteless programs and commercials have been substituted. Included in the mix are such show as The Shitheads, The Charles Whitman Invitational, and commercials for a number of improbable products.

American Raspberry

1977

Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller continents and islands. Thirty million years ago, the country of Japan was part of the continent of Asia, and has since split off into its own archipelago. Another landmass shift is about to occur...