John Ritter
Birthday: 1948-09-17
Place of Birth: Burbank, California, USA
Biography: Johnathan Southworth "John" Ritter (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor, voice over artist and comedian, perhaps best known for playing Jack Tripper and Paul Hennessy in the ABC sitcoms "Three's Company" and "8 Simple Rules," respectively. Don Knotts called him the "greatest physical comedian on the planet." Ritter's final films "Bad Santa," "Clifford's Really Big Movie" and "Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up" were all dedicated in his memory.
Movies
Bad Santa
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've...
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Tricks of the Trade
After her picture perfect husband is murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Beverly Hills homemaker C...
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The Stone Killer
A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Maf...
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Shadow of Doubt
An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman....
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The Summer My Father Grew Up
A divorced and remarried doctor tries to reconnect with his eleven-year-old son whom he has always n...
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!...
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Panic
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage...
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Problem Child
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon dis...
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Stay Tuned
Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, H...
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Montana
A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitt...
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North
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't...
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Bride of Chucky
Chucky is reborn when his old flame, Tiffany, rescues his battered doll parts from a police impound....
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They All Laughed
New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected ...
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Wholly Moses
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was ...
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John Ritter: Being of Sound Mind and Body
John Ritter shows off his comedic talent with a collection of comedy sketches....
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Skin Deep
Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him...
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Sling Blade
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since t...
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Noises Off...
Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to contr...
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The Flight of Dragons
The realm of magic is being threatened by the realm of logic, so the green wizard, Carolinus, decide...
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Problem Child 2
Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's de...
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The Other
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, enci...
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A Smoky Mountain Christmas
A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsma...
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A Gun, a Car, a Blonde
In this homage to film noir, a wheelchair bound (Jim Metzler) paraplegic fantasizes about the new bl...
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Hero at Large
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery w...
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Real Men
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes ...
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It Came from the Sky
Jarvis and Pepper crash land their small plane on the roof of the Bridges family. Pepper finds herse...
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Tadpole
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks...
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Americathon
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankru...
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Clifford's Really Big Movie
Fearing that he costs too much to feed, Clifford decides to join a traveling carnival so he can ente...
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Man of the Year
Bill is the guest of honor as the "Man of the Year". A very successful head of a large energy firm, ...
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Harry Anderson: The Tricks of His Trade
A one man CBS Special featuring classic close-up magic, card tricks and other sleight of hand....
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The Colony
A man and his family move from a crime-ridden inner city suburb to a self-proclaimed violence-free h...
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All Star Party for Lucille Ball
A tribute to Lucille ball, with an humanitarian award for her quest to end juvenile diabetes....
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Terror Tract
A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they're...
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Nickelodeon
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an ille...
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Chance of a Lifetime
Irreverent freelance investigative reporter Tom Maguire hits rock bottom when bigot editor in chief ...
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Manhood
Filled with both laughter and tears, Manhood is a fascinating exploration of the interpersonal relat...
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Heartbeat
A divorced father falls in love with a pregnant woman whose husband had abandoned her when he discov...
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The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show
Miss Piggy hosts her own variety show, with special guests John Ritter, George Hamilton and Tony Cli...
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Lethal Vows
A seemingly upstanding, caring husband and father is accused of foul play by his ex-wife regarding t...
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Holy Joe
In the sleepy town of Vine Creek, preacher and volunteer fireman Joe Cass wakes up to realize his fa...
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Loss of Faith
A crime novelist searches for a missing baby at his sister's behest and makes painful discoveries ab...
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Mercenary
Jonas Ambler is a rich businessman whose wife is killed by kidnappers, so he decides to get even. He...
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The Lie
From an Ingmar Bergman script. Previously produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" and for th...
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Prison for Children
Contemporary drama dealing with an orphaned teenager trapped in an antiquated juvenile disciplinary ...
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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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Unnatural Causes
Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemica...
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The Comeback Kid
A down-on his-luck baseball pitcher finds a new set of rewards coaching a gang of underprivileged yo...
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The Last Fling
A young woman decides to have one more romantic escapade before marrying her dull fiancé....
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middl...
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A Child's Wish
A family discovers their youngest daughter has cancer. But the real struggle has yet to start....
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The Dreamer of Oz
The film is the biography of Frank Baum, the children's book author and creator of the fantasy world...
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Time Machine: When Cowboys Were King
Take a nostalgic ride through movie history and relive the glory days of the Western -- when kids sp...
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Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures....
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Scandalous John
A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way ...
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Evil Roy Slade
Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his...
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Letting Go
Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet du...
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Leave Yesterday Behind
A happy-go-lucky veterinary student, paralyzed for life in a college polo meet, finds love with a yo...
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Sink Or Swim
Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiratio...
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Stanley's Dinosaur Round-Up
Stanley goes with his family and friend's to his great uncle's dude ranch. The local land baron is t...
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The Barefoot Executive
In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post - an amb...
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Unforgivable
Paul Hegstrom is a so-called family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children...
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Gramps
After a long search, lawyer Clarke MacGruder finally locates his long lost father Jack. At first, ev...
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The Golden Girls: Lifetime Intimate Portrait Series
Lifetime's "Intimate Portrait" series shines a spotlight on the Golden Girls -- Bea Arthur, Betty Wh...
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Ringo
Ringo Starr, bored and disillusioned with fame, meets a doppelgänger in Hollywood named Ognir Rrats ...
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Nowhere
In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. Th...
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Mickey's 60th Birthday
This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat f...
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Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel
In 1970s Atlanta, a diminutive gay man tries to find succor from the small-town religion that filled...
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My Brother's Wife
Barney is a guy who comes home for his father's funeral. Eleanor, his brother's wife who is Barney f...
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The Goldie Hawn Special
Goldie Hawn’s second TV special was in 1978, “The Goldie Hawn Special” and it was a sort of comeback...
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Love Thy Neighbor
When Danny’s wife and Linda’s husband run away together, the two neighbors form an unlikely bond....
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Strong Kids, Safe Kids
Strong Kids, Safe Kids was put together because so many of us are concerned about the horrible poten...
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The Martin & Lewis Story: The Last Great Comedy Team
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis were the hottest act in America in the 1950's & the highest paid comedy te...
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The Making of High Noon
Documentary about High Noon featuring Fred Zinnemann and Stanley Kramer....
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Pray TV
A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep confli...
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Dead Husbands
Dr. Carter Elson is a man who finds a list of men's names among his wife Alex's possessions. When Ca...
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Sunset Limousine
Alan O'Black is a comic who wants to hit it big. But his endless attempts at stardom have worn down ...
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How to Survive the '70s and Maybe Even Bump Into Happiness
A 1978 special starring Mary Tyler Moore, Harvey Korman, and John Ritter. Dick Van Dyke guest stars....
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Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
Donald is shown in both animated and costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and other c...
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Robin Williams: Off the Wall
This was Robin's first HBO special, part of the HBO On Location series. It was taped on location at ...
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Mr. Thornton Goes to Hollywood
A 14-part documentary that explores the life and career of Billy Bob Thornton, chronicling his journ...
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The Real Story of O Christmas Tree
In this children's video a little girl asks a little pine tree to stay green through the winter to r...
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The Only Way Out
Jeremy Carlisle's ex-wife Lynn is trying to stay away from her dangerously disturbed ex-boyfriend To...
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The Night That Panicked America
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the World...
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For Hope
The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped....
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Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film....
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