Robert Klein
Birthday: 1942-02-08
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is an American stand-up comedian, singer, and actor. He is known for his appearances on stage and screen. He has released four standup comedy specials including, A Child of the 50s (1973), Mind Over Matter (1974), New Teeth (1975), and Let's Not Make Love (1990). The first two albums received Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nominations. Klein hosted Saturday Night Live in its first season in 1975 and again in 1978. Klein made his Broadway debut in the 1966 production of The Apple Tree opposite Alan Alda. He earned a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical nomination for his performance in Neil Simon's musical comedy They're Playing Our Song (1979). He is known for his film roles in The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), Mixed Nuts (1994), One Fine Day (1996), Primary Colors (1998), Two Weeks Notice (2002), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), and Reign Over Me (2007). He is also known for his recurring television roles in Law & Order: SVU (2009-2012), The Good Wife (2013-2014), Madam Secretary (2014), Will & Grace (2018-2019). He has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his specials, Child in his 50's (2001), and Unfair and Unbalanced (2010). He was profiled in the Starz documentary Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg (2016).
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The Last Unicorn
A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all t...
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Reign Over Me
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college room...
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Two Weeks Notice
Dedicated environmental lawyer Lucy Kelson goes to work for billionaire George Wade as part of a dea...
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him....
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One Fine Day
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father ...
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Mixed Nuts
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays....
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Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You for the Last Time
Taped for HBO in August 1998, on the final date of Jerry Seinfeld's tour appearances at New York Cit...
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The Safety of Objects
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal cri...
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
It's the battle of wills, as Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days, whereas Ben needs t...
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The Owl and the Pussycat
Meek, owlish Felix and strident, catty Doris live in the same apartment building. His incessant typi...
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The Gypsy
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance....
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Hooper
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The Gang
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After sever...
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Comedian
A look at the work of two stand-up comics, Jerry Seinfeld and a lesser-known newcomer, detailing the...
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I'm with Lucy
It's an hour before Lucy's wedding and her best friend wants to hear all about what led up to that m...
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An Evening with Robert Klein
Comedian Robert Klein performs in HBO's first ever standup special....
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Robert Klein: Unfair & Unbalanced
Comedian/actor Robert Klein stars in his ninth HBO stand-up special, an hour of all new insights int...
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National Lampoon's Dirty Movie
An outrageous cut-rate producer is about to fulfill his lifelong dream to make a movie about the mos...
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Dangerous Curves
A college graduate is offered a deal of a lifetime - deliver a Porsche for a client and join the com...
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Robert Klein Revisited
Robert Klein returns to HBO for another hour of his classic comedy....
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Robert Klein: Child of the 50's, Man of the 80's
1984 Live Recording from campus of New York University....
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The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
A fascinating look at the most beloved comedy team in motion picture history. Exclusive interviews w...
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Yesterday's Tomorrows
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in w...
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Funny Is Money
Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in w...
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The Back-Up Plan
When Zoe tires of looking for Mr. Right, she decides to have a baby on her own. But on the day she's...
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Rivals
A boy with an unhealthy and pathological attachment to his mother becomes increasingly jealous of th...
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Nobody's Perfekt
While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resi...
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The Bell Jar
Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to ...
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Suits
A deodorant company with a product called "Smell No Mo" pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come...
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Robert Klein: It All Started Here
Robert Klein performs a solo standup routine at the Forum Theater in Metuchen, New Jersey....
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Robert Klein: Child in His 50s
Comic Robert Klein performs a solo stand-up show before an audience at New York City's John Jay Coll...
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On Location: Robert Klein at Yale
HBO goes on location to Yale with Robert Klein in 1982....
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Robert Klein: The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue
In his eighth HBO special, the comic reflects on humorous events from his childhood, his summer job ...
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Echoes of the Sixties: A Musical Trip
A documentary on the pop music and culture of the 1960's, featuring film and video clips of 60's-era...
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Sharknado 2: The Second One
A freak weather system turns its deadly fury on New York City, unleashing a Sharknado on the populat...
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Goosed
Sheltered rich girl Charlene has an over-protective mother who insists that her daughter should marr...
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This Wife for Hire
A housewife starts a business hiring herself out as a "wife," to provide various domestic services....
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Night of 100 Stars III
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy....
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The Pursuit of Happiness
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much...
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Labor Pains
A New York City columnist falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- a free-spirited arti...
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Definitely, Maybe
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a secon...
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Ira & Abby
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spiri...
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Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
The sharks take bite out of the East Coast when the sharknado hits Washington, D.C. and Orlando, Flo...
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Putzel
For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighbor...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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Poison Ivy
Two teenage summer camp counselors struggle with their younger campers, providing a variety of humor...
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Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg
A hilarious and heartfelt look at the career and influence of comedy legend Robert Klein....
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Piñero
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Migue...
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Clarissa
Pilot episode of the cancelled follow-up series to Nickelodeon's "Clarissa Explains it All" in which...
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National Lampoon's Another Dirty Movie
Two college film students set out to make an homage to Charlie LaRue, not for art or for money. They...
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Primary Colors
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White Hous...
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Notice to Quit
Andy Singer, a struggling New York City realtor, finds his world crashing down around him when his e...
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Demoted
What go around comes around for a pair of prank-playing tire salesmen who find themselves placed in ...
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People I Know
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal....
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The Landlord
At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying ...
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Next Stop Wonderland
Dumped by her loser boyfriend, Erin's love life hits rock bottom when her overbearing mother places ...
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From Where I Sit
High school sex education teacher Sharon and her husband, overwhelmed family man Bob humorously deal...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa...
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Pocket Full of Soul: The Harmonica Documentary
The definitive film on the harmonica. A comprehensive exploration of the culture, the players, the p...
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All Commercials... A Steve Martin Special
Steve Martin's third NBC special serves as a salute to 1970s television commercials. Taking shots at...
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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Animated adaptation of Virginia Lee Burton's children's book....
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Monty Python Conquers America
This documentary follows the evolution of the British sketch comedy troupe that redefined humor and ...
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Radioland Murders
A series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network....
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Jeffrey
Jeffrey, a gay man living in New York City with an overwhelming fear of contracting AIDS, concludes ...
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Before I Go
A woman recalls her life and musical career choices in New York City through the years....
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Your Place... or Mine?
Karen (Tyne Daly) is a San Francisco real estate broker and best friend of psychiatrist Alexandra Be...
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Pajama Tops
French inspired farce about affairs, mistaken identities and similar hijinks....
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of cont...
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Monty Python: Live at Aspen
In March 1998 in Aspen, Colorado, the surviving members of the Monty Python team – John Cleese, Terr...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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Comic Relief '90
Several celebrity comedians take on sadness in the fourth laugh for charity....
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An All-Star Toast to the Improv
To celebrate the "birthday" of the famous Improv comedy club, 6 famous comedians get up on stage and...
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They're Playing Our Song
In a story based on the real-life relationship of Marvin Hamlisch and Carol Bayer Sager, a wisecrack...
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The Contract
Hannah has been trained in the lethal art of assasination by her father Luc, a former sniper with th...
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Jerry Seinfeld: The Comedian Award
Hosted by Anderson Cooper, Jerry is honored by fellow comedians Chris Albrecht, Anderson Cooper, Rob...
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Let's Go Mets
Documentary cameras go behind-the-scenes for the making of the "Let's Go Mets" music video....
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