Mark Linn-Baker

Acting

Mark Linn-Baker

Born 1954-06-17 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Mark Linn-Baker is an American stage and screen actor and director. He is best known for his portrayal of Larry Appleton on the television sitcom "Perfect Strangers". He holds an MFA in Drama from the Yale School of Drama, New Haven, Connecticut.

Acting credits

How Do You Know poster
5.3

After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.

How Do You Know

2010

Manhattan poster
7.7

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Manhattan

1979

Adam poster
6.8

Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

Adam

2009

Noises Off... poster
7.2

Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. With a star actress quickly passing her prime, a male lead with no confidence, and a bit actor that's rarely sober, chaos ensues in the lead up to a Broadway premiere.

Noises Off...

1992

Me and Him poster
3.6

A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.

Me and Him

1988

12 and Holding poster
6.8

Three close knit 12-year-olds - introverted Jacob, precocious Malee and vulnerable Leonard - start down the path of self-discovery and begin to distinguish their own voices from those of their parents.

12 and Holding

2006

My Favorite Year poster
6.6

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.

My Favorite Year

1982

Night of 100 Stars III poster
4.3

A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

Night of 100 Stars III

1990

Accommodations poster
1.0

Married with children and living in downtown Manhattan, a woman decides to quit accommodating everyone around her and goes on a creative journey to bring meaning to her life.

Accommodations

2018

Bare Essentials poster
3.9

A couple leaves for a vacation on a tropical island and finds happiness and love... just not with each-other.

Bare Essentials

1991

Alice at the Palace poster
6.2

Meryl Streep stars as Alice in this production of Elizabeth Swados' musical, which was adapted from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. Based on the acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production by Joseph Papp, Alice at the Palace follows Alice's surreal adventures with The Mad Hatter, The March Hare, The Queen of Hearts, and The Cheshire Cat, among many others.

Alice at the Palace

1982

Lincoln in the Bardo poster
NR

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln's youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son's crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating their brief reunion. Based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed author George Saunders.

Lincoln in the Bardo

2017

No artwork available
NR

Molly and Advay meet again twenty five years after being high school sweethearts. They seemed destined to be together forever, but it all ended when she rose to stardom in Hollywood as a teenage actress.

There She Goes

No artwork available
NR

An autistic teenager wants to find a favorite Premiere League soccer club and makes his father take him to see every single team so he can decide.

Weekend Warriors

The End of August poster
7.0

In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves her family and tries to start a new life alone.

The End of August

1981

Going to the Chapel poster
5.3

As a couple (Valentine and Greene) prepare to get married all sorts of uninvited and unexpected guests arrive and secrets are revealed.

Going to the Chapel

1988

Laughter on the 23rd Floor poster
4.4

Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a running commentary on the writing, fighting, and wacky antics which take place in the writers' room

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

2001

Mickey's Audition poster
4.0

A five-minute film for The Disney-MGM Studios combining live-action and animation. Mickey Mouse recalls his first big audition and subsequent filmmaking career.

Mickey's Audition

1992

No artwork available
7.0

A failed sitcom about a "Cheers"-type bar located across the street from a bustling urban hospital, which is owned by an ex-medical student, and an ex-nurse.

The Recovery Room

1985

The Ghost Writer poster
NR

Nathan Zuckerman, a budding 23 year old writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovers the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff. Also staying is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past.

The Ghost Writer

1983

Here's to You, Mickey Mouse poster
6.4

A look at the history of Mickey Mouse as part of his 60th birthday.

Here's to You, Mickey Mouse

1988

All's Well That Ends Well poster
7.0

Video recording of a 1978 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Directed for stage by Wilford Leach and videotaped by Jaime Caro.

All's Well That Ends Well

1978

No artwork available
NR

A dark comedy about closure. Three cats. One dog. A cockatoo. Uncle Herman. Eternity.

Bereavement

2014

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