Steve Martin

Steve Martin

Date of Birth: 14 Aug 1945

Country: USA

Biography: Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer. Martin was born in Waco, Texas, and raised in Southern California, where his early influences were working at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm and working magic and comedy acts at these and other smaller venues in the area. His ascent to fame picked up when he became a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest on The Tonight Show..(Wikipedia)

Total Credits at Criticker: 65 (Actor), 1 (Director), 18 (Writer), 1 (Creator)

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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (65) | Director (1) | Writer (18) | Creator (1)

    Bowfinger
    Bobby Bowfinger, a nearly bankrupt aspiring movie producer-director, is about to take one last shot at fame and fortune. Desperate to hit the big time, the hapless dreamer recruits a motley crew of aspiring misfits, including an eager nerd, an ambitious ingenue and an overthe-hill diva. With their help, Bowfinger embarks on a radical, ingenious scheme to trick the biggest name in movies into becoming the star of his ultra-low budget film. (Universal Pictures)
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    L.A. Story
    Harris Telemacher is the "Wacky Weather" presenter for a Los Angeles television station. He finds himself battling the insane conditions and people caused by the manic chaos that is Los Angeles. Striving to achieve happiness (or at least a date), he finds a helping hand from the last person he expected: the city of Los Angeles itself. (imdb)
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    Shopgirl
    Based on Steve Martin's bestselling novella, Shopgirl is a funny and poignant story of love in the modern age. The film catches a glimpse inside the lives of three very different people on diverse paths, but all in search of the same thing.
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    The Pink Panther
    In this action-packed comedy, the bumbling Inspector Closeau (Martin) takes on his most important case ever. (Sony)
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    The Man with Two Brains
    Steve Martin comedy about brain transplantation (imdb)
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    The Jerk
    A complete imbecile struggles to make it through life on his own, until a strange invention makes him unbelievably wealthy. (imdb)
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    A Simple Twist of Fate
    His life was emotionally closed off from the world, until an orphaned baby showed up at his house. (imdb)
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    Three Amigos!
    Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is real thing. (imdb)
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    Roxanne
    Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks. (imdb)
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    Traitor
    A special operative working with a terrorist group becomes the target of the CIA.
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    The Pink Panther 2
    Insp. Jacques Clouseau teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts. (imdb)
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    Steve Martin: Live!
    This video contains three segments: First, the Oscar-nominated short The absent-minded waiter (1977), then a fake interview with Steve Martin about his art (comedians-segment) and finally a full live performance done by Steve sometime in the seventies at the Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles. (imdb)
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    The Jerk, Too
    Navin Johnson, the consummate idiot, returns in this remake of Steve Martin's popular 1979 film The Jerk. As in the first, Johnson, the lily white adoptee of a black sharecropper sets out across the country in search of true love.
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    The Absent-Minded Waiter
    Bernie Cates requests the services of the most absent-minded waiter he's ever seen, who pours water before setting the glasses, endlessly repeats questions, brings wrong orders, and ruins everything- but the bill. (imdb)
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    Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life
    Comedians and writers Steve Martin and Martin Short perform a live comedy set with music by The Steep Canyon Rangers and jazz pianist, Jeff Babko, at the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina. (imdb)
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    The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
    The Smothers Brothers ran a comedy-variety show that featured not just that comedy duo, but also the top musical acts like the Who and the Beatles. Along that way, they presented comedy that poked humor at politics, the Vietnam War, religion, sexuality and censorship in with fearless bravado.
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    Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin
    A Saturday Night Live DVD featuring the best of Steve Martin.
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    On Location
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