Tom Smothers
Also Known As: Thomas Smothers , Smothers Brothers
Biography: Thomas Bolyn Smothers III (February 2, 1937 - December 26, 2023) was an American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy duo the Smothers Brothers, alongside his younger brother Dick Smothers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA
Birthday: February 02, 1937
Deathday: December 26, 2023
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Gender: Male
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The Informant!
Overview: A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-18
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The Aristocrats
Overview: One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-29
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Shake! Otis at Monterey
Overview: Renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captures Otis Redding in his ascendancy, singing at the historic Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. Comedian Tom Smothers introduces Redding to a crowd that is leaving -- until Redding grabs them with his charged rendition of "Shake." Redding's performance also includes "Respect" (which he wrote), "I've Been Loving You Too Long," "Satisfaction," and "Try a Little Tenderness." Tragically, Redding died in a plane crash six months later. An innovative filmmaker who started in the 1950s making experimental films, Pennebaker garnered an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature in 1993 for The War Room, his behind-the-scenes look at Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. His other subjects have included Norman Mailer, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-16
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Ted E. Bear: Cub Reporter
Overview: Ted E. Bear and friends host a newscast.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Speed Zone
Overview: An illegal race that takes place over the United States and nothing will stop this bunch of racers except for the occasional cop or a damsel in distress. Jackie Chan's car is not in this one, but many new cars make up for that. Who will win? Who will crash? Who will not even finish? Sit down and buckle up for the ride of your life.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-21
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Once Upon A Mattress
Overview: Queen Aggravain has ruled that none may marry until her son, Prince Dauntless marries. However, she has managed to sabotage every princess that come along. When Sir Harry and Lady Larken learn that they are going to be parents, wed or not, he goes off to the swamps and brings back Princess Winnifred ("Fred" to her friends).
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-18
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Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
Overview: The life and work of the enigmatic singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-26
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The Super Bob Einstein Movie
Overview: This documentary explores Bob Einstein’s unlikely discovery and enduring career, sharing the many evolving layers of his comedy from the people that knew him best.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-28
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Pandemonium
Overview: A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Get to Know Your Rabbit
Overview: A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-07
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Serial
Overview: A man resists the California fads that his wife, friends and wealthy Marin County neighbors embrace.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
Overview: While the rest of the world is getting ready for Christmas, all the bears in Bearbank are getting ready to sleep… except for Ted E. Bear. Ted gets curious about the holiday, and sets out to learn the meaning of it from Santa Claus himself.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-17
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Tribute to Harry Chapin
Overview: Tribute concert held in 1987 at Carnegie Hall (and later televised on PBS), commemorating Harry Chapin's posthumous receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his humanitarian efforts. Featuring songs and speeches by Harry's friends, family and peers.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Overview: Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.
Genres: Music Fantasy Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-06
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Monterey Pop
Overview: Featuring performances by popular artists of the 1960s, this concert film highlights the music of the 1967 California festival. Although not all musicians who performed at the Monterey Pop Festival are on film, some of the notable acts include the Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Otis Redding, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix's post-performance antics -- lighting a guitar on fire, breaking it and tossing a part into the audience -- are captured.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-26
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Goin' Back to Indiana
Overview: Jackson 5 TV special featuring comedic skits and live performances
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-19
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Free to Be… You and Me
Overview: Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972, featuring songs and stories from many current celebrities of the day (credited as "Marlo Thomas and Friends") such as Alan Alda, Rosey Grier, Cicely Tyson, Carol Channing, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross, among others. An ABC Afterschool Special using poetry, songs, and sketches, followed two years later in March 1974. The basic concept is to encourage a post-60's gender neutrality, while saluting values such as individuality, tolerance, and happiness with one's identity. A major thematic message is that anyone, whether a boy or a girl, can achieve anything.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-11
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Terror at Alcatraz
Overview: Tom and Dick Smothers play Bones Howard and Ryan Fitzgerald, a TV cameraman and intrepid reporter, respectively, involved in the race to find the buried treasure of Al Capone on Alcatraz Island at the former prison where he was imprisoned.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-04
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Pat Paulsen for President
Overview: Before there were mockumentaries, there was this "Documentary/TV Movie" on the satirical 1968 Presidential campaign for comedy performer Pat Paulsen
Genres: Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-20
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Alcohol Drugs Or Alternatives
Overview: This color 1973 educational film is about drug abuse. Tom Smothers and Christopher George are featured.This film shows how young people may attempt to deal with insecurities and inadequacies by taking drugs/alcohol. The film stresses that young people can help one another and find other ways than substance abuse.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-23
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Timmy's Special Delivery: A Precious Moments Christmas
Overview: An angel named Timmy with help of a dog and mouse tries to give a less fortunate Boy and Girl A Teddy bear and doll for Christmas.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-19
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There Goes The Bride
Overview: A nervous ad executive creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't catch.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-07
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Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card
Overview: Sketch comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-14
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Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
Overview: A special examining America's fascination with celebrities. Based on the irreverent, satirical humor of "Spy Magazine." Comedian Jerry Seinfeld acts as spokesman for the humor magazine in a mock-scientific—actually a mock-everything—look at the phenomenon of celebrity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Abbott & Costello Meet Biography
Overview: A biography of comedian duo Bud Abbott & Lou Costello
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-29
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The Smothers Brothers: LIVE!
Overview: Recorded in 2006 at the Casino-Rama outside of Toronto, this live show features classic bits and songs (complete with comedic interruptions) as only the Smothers Brothers are able to perform. The show is a solid reflection of the duo's later years, and helps solidify their longevity and climb to becoming comedy royalty.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-08
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This Land Is Your Land - Folk Years
Overview: Filmed live at Carnegie Melon University in 2002, This Land is Your Land features the biggest names in folk music.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-22
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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Overview: The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's contemporaries, (Steve Lawrence, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, etc.), established comedians (Billy Crystal, Rosanna Barr, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, etc.) and young comedians (Jeff Atoll, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, etc.).
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-13
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Smothers Brothers Yo-Yo Man Instructional Video
Overview: A new craze is sweeping the nation! The “Yo-Yo” has come out of retirement and is back into the hearts and minds of every hard working, right thinking, up-and-coming, true blue American yo-yo lover. And there are millions of them. Emerging from his all knowing state of yo, Tommy Smothers of TV and stage fame, is the voice of the “Yo-Yo Man” and Dick Smothers is the voice of Yo. Hecan now come into your home in this brand new video for your entire family and friends to enjoy. Learn tricks like “Walk the Dog”, “Over the Falls” and “Loop the loop”. Fast forward the tape to color coded markers to watch and rewatch the “Yo-Yo Man” and the “Yo Master” Daniel Volk demonstrating each trick.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-08
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Lewis Black & Friends - A Night to Let Freedom Laugh (Live in Washington D.C.)
Overview: Lewis Black hosts a night of stand-up comedy live from the Warner Theatre in D.C. to celebrate the Bill of Rights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-16
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Hurray for Betty Boop
Overview: Betty Boop runs for president in a loose storyline assembled from Fleischer cartoons redrawn by Korean animators.
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-21
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Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Overview: The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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The Great Bear Scare
Overview: As Halloween approaches, the bears of Bearbank begin to fear an invasion of monsters from nearby Monster Mountain. As most of the bears prepare to leave the city, one brave little bear, Ted E. Bear, sets out to confront fear!
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-01
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The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians
Overview: The Mad, Mad, Mad Comedians is a 1970 American animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. After the Christmas special Frosty the Snowman (1969), it was Rankin/Bass' second hand-drawn animated work to be outsourced to Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production in Tokyo, Japan. The show aired on ABC on April 7, 1970 before the airing of that year's Oscars. It was a tribute to early vaudeville, and featured animated reworkings of various famous comedians' acts.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-07
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Jack Paar: Smart Television
Overview: PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-29
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Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music
Overview: Examine the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity, and hear from dozens of musicians who explain the ways bluegrass music transcends generational, cultural and geographic boundaries.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-30
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Tales of the Rat Fink
Overview: This is an interesting look at the Life and Times of car customizer/cartoonist Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Through the use of many graphically enhanced photographs and "talking" cars, it is a loving look at the car culture in Southern California from the Early 50's to Ed's Passing in 2001.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Silver Bears
Overview: Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa, consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi. This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-03
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A Pleasure Doing Business
Overview: In this comedy, three middle-aged men renew their boyhood friendship at a stag party and hatch a crazy scheme that involves making money off of a luscious prostitute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-31
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The Kids Are Alright
Overview: Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us a comprehensive look at the British pioneer rock group, The Who. It captures their zany craziness and outrageous antics from the initial formation of the group in 1964 to 1978. It notably features the band's last performance with long-term drummer Keith Moon, filmed at Shepperton Studios in May 1978, three months before his death.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys
Overview: Modern comedians share their thoughts about Laurel and Hardy. Also includes archival footage of contemporary comedians. Hosted by Dom DeLuise.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-05
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Bed Peace
Overview: John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-drawn signs above their bed reading "Bed Peace." They invited the global press into their room to discuss peace for 12 hours every day.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-24
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