Fran Brill
Featuring unprecedented access to Jim Henson's personal archives, filmmaker Ron Howard brings us a fascinating and insightful look at a complex man whose boundless imagination inspired the world.
Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Fran Brill, Rita Moreno
Two seemingly disparate men experience powerful life lessons when a wheat harvester gives a hitch-hiking male model a ride on what feels to be the worst day of their lives, at the peak of the war in Vietnam. The harvester has just been diagnosed with cancer, but desperately needs to fulfill a reaping contract, while the male model got himself beaten up in a bar, leading to his firing, and stranding in Kansas.
Director: Joseph Sargent
Actors: Dennis Weaver, Kurt Russell, Mare Winningham, Fran Brill, Wilford Brimley
Join Elmo as he reminisces about his potty training journey and guides viewers as they embark on theirs. Elmo and his Sesame friends give helpful, confidence-building tips and encourage kids to listen to their bodies. Dance, sing and laugh along as kids learn healthy habits that will last a lifetime. Potty training can be fun! Create a positive potty time experience for your child with Elmo, Baby Bear, Grover, and other Sesame Street friends with Elmo's Potty Time! This amusing and song-filled DVD teaches children that everyone - mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, friends, and even monsters - has to learn how to use the potty. Your child will learn that accidents are okay and that it takes time and practice before he can use the potty on his own. So dance, sing, and laugh as your child learns confidence-building skills and helpful healthy habits that will last a lifetime.
Director: Emily Squires
Actors: Kevin Clash, Bill Barretta, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, David Rudman, Frank Oz
Sesame Street characters help Elmo count down the days leading up to Christmas.
Director: Gary Halvorson
Actors: Kevin Clash, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Tyler Bunch, Fran Brill, Pam Arciero
Jon Stewart is set to host the Sesame Street Muppets' 30 year celebration, but Elmo steps in when things go awry.
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Actors: Jon Stewart, Kevin Clash, Fran Brill, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson
Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this documentary includes rare archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and others and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop.
Director: Constance Marks
Actors: Kevin Clash, Whoopi Goldberg, Bill Barretta, Frank Oz, Fran Brill
Santa Claus and his elves are ready to deliver presents to children everywhere but Cosmo Scam has hatched a plan to kidnap Santa and take his place! One by one, Cosmo abducts Santa's elves and replaces them with his evil henchmen. Can Fred the Elf save Christmas before Cosmo burglarizes the world?
Director: John Moffitt
Actors: Art Carney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Danny Seagren
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Director: Hal Ashby
Actors: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart
A closeted gay movie director/actor in 1939 finds himself the target of the vicious and unscrupulous attacks by a gossip columnist reporter who goes by the name of Hollywood Confidential.
Director: Gerald Gutierrez
Actors: Julie Boyd, Fran Brill, Robert Curtis Brown, Peter Frechette, Robert Joy
The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but confessing to the priest later. But Karen also learns some honesty from Lonnie. A film about social differences and growing up.
Director: Marisa Silver
Actors: Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Neill Barry, Alyssa Milano, Danny Aiello
On Saturday 16 May 2020, the cast of the Muppet Guys Talking documentary - Frank Oz, Fran Brill, Dave Goelz and Bill Barretta - reteamed via Skype for a charity fundraising conversation to honor Jim Henson in aid of the COVID-19 appeal.
Director: Frank Oz
Actors: Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, Fran Brill, Victoria Labalme
When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.
Director: Frank Oz
Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Richard Hunt
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
Director: Frank Oz
Actors: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe
Five of the original Muppet performers come together for the first time ever to share behind-the-scenes secrets of the Muppets. Includes rare performance footage, surprising stories and insights into how Jim led his team to produce legendary work.
Director: Frank Oz
Actors: Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta, Fran Brill
Episode of Great Performances about Jim Henson
Director: Judy Kinberg
Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jane Henson, Jerry Juhl, Ted Koppel