Wendy Schaal

Acting

Wendy Schaal

Born 1954-07-02 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Wendy Schaal (born July 2, 1954) is an American actress and voice actress, perhaps best known as the voice of Francine Smith on the television show American Dad!. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she is the daughter of Lois (née Treacy) and the actor Richard Schaal, and the former stepdaughter of Valerie Harper. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wendy Schaal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Small Soldiers poster
6.6

When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

Small Soldiers

1998

Innerspace poster
6.8

Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.

Innerspace

1987

The 'Burbs poster
6.8

When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.

The 'Burbs

1989

*batteries not included poster
6.7

In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.

*batteries not included

1987

My Girl 2 poster
6.1

Vada Sultenfuss has a holiday coming up, and an assignment: to do an essay on someone she admires and has never met. She decides she wants to do an assignment on her mother, but quickly realises she knows very little about her. She manages to get her father to agree to let her go to LA to stay with her Uncle Phil and do some research on her mother.

My Girl 2

1994

Bright Lights, Big City poster
5.7

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

Bright Lights, Big City

1988

Holiday in the Sun poster
6.0

Sisters Alex and Madison are whisked away to the Bahamas for winter break but soon find themselves crossing paths with a man smuggling stolen artifacts.

Holiday in the Sun

2001

Munchies poster
4.8

Simon Watterman, a space archaeologist, discovers the "Munchies" in a cave in Peru. Cecil Watterman, Simon's evil twin brother and snack food entrepreneur, kidnaps the creature. What Cecil does not know is that the creature, when chopped up, regenerates into many new creatures and are they mean!

Munchies

1987

Loving Annabelle poster
6.6

Annabelle is the wise-beyond-her-years newcomer to an exclusive Catholic girls school. Having been expelled from her first two schools she's bound to stir some trouble. Sparks fly though when sexual chemistry appears between her and the Head of her dorm and English teacher, Simone Bradley. Annabelle pursues her relentlessly and until the end the older woman manages to avoid the law.

Loving Annabelle

2007

Where the Boys Are poster
4.5

Four college co-eds travel to Fort Lauderdale for their Easter week of Spring Break, and become involved in a series of adventures and misadventures

Where the Boys Are

1984

Bound for Glory poster
6.9

A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.

Bound for Glory

1976

Out There poster
5.0

A Pulitzer Prize winning photographer is fired from his job for not being sensationalistic enough. After he purchases an old camera at a yard sale, he discovers some undeveloped film in it, including photos of an apparent alien abduction. When he goes public with the photos, he garners the attention of his former boss, the government and a woman who thinks her father was the abductee.

Out There

1995

Reform School Girl poster
4.8

After being a passenger in a hit-and-run, Donna Patterson is sent to reform school, taking the rap for the driver, bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and self-discoveries while trying to save her little sister from their abusive uncle.

Reform School Girl

1994

Creature poster
4.7

A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artifacts of unknown origin. They discover that their German enemies already have a ship there. When they seek their help after a failed landing, they only find the Germans’ bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.

Creature

1985

Going Under poster
3.9

An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine.

Going Under

1991

American Dad: The New CIA poster
7.4

The American Dad short film, which preceded the theatrical run of the 2005 feature Fever Pitch, is about Stan Smith touring his work days in the CIA and his "normal" everyday life.

American Dad: The New CIA

2005

Record City poster
5.3

Lighthearted comedy chronicling the exploits of the employees at a record store.

Record City

1978

Runaway Daughters poster
6.0

After Mary tells her boyfriend she's pregnant, he enrolls in the Army and skips town, leaving her to fend for herself. With her friends Angie and Laura by her side, Mary steals a car, fakes a kidnapping and heads down to San Diego to chase her errant beau. It's a bumpy ride, however, as the girls are pursued by corrupt cops and homicidal hillbillies, not to mention their own flabbergasted parents.

Runaway Daughters

1994

When the Time Comes poster
NR

A terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses.

When the Time Comes

1987

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4.1

An in depth look at the making of The 'Burbs, from High Rising Productions. This feature-length documentary includes interviews with director Joe Dante, actors Corey Feldman, Courtney Gains and Wendy Schaal, director of photography Robert M. Stevens and production designer James H. Spencer.

There Goes the Neighborhood: The Making of The 'Burbs

2014