Gilda Radner

Gilda Radner

Birth : 1946-06-28, Detroit, Michigan, United States

Death : 1989-05-20

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedian and actress, best known as one of the original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award in 1978. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilda Radner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Gilda Radner

Movies

Belushi
Self (archive footage)
Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short life of the once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audiences.
Love, Gilda
Self (archive footage)
Diaries, audiotapes, videotapes and testimonies from friends and colleagues offer insight into the life and career of Gilda Radner -- the beloved comic and actress who became an icon on Saturday Night Live.
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
Self / Actress (archive footage)
A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage, this is the mind boggling story of The National Lampoon from its subversive and electrifying beginnings, to rebirth as an unlikely Hollywood heavyweight, and beyond. A humour empire like no other, the impact of the magazines irreverent, often shocking, sensibility was nothing short of seismic: this is an institution whose (drunk stoned brilliant) alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture. Both insanely great and breathtakingly innovative, The National Lampoon created the foundation of modern comic sensibility by setting the bar in comedy impossibly high.
Saturday Night Live Backstage
Various (archive footage)
Originally a special celebrating the 35th anniversary of the show was planned but it was scrapped and replaced with this special, which shows viewers how an SNL episode is created within the span of a week.
The Women of SNL
Various (archive footage)
A look back at some of the funniest female characters and sketches in SNL's 39-year history.
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dan Aykroyd
Various Characters
A collection of classic Saturday Night Live sketches featuring Dan Aykroyd.
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live
Self
A retrospective of the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live.
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Self (archive footage)
A TV special celebrating the 25th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, many of the former cast members and guest hosts return to perform their signature monologues and present a look back at some of the best comedy skits and musical numbers of the past two and a half decades.
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
Self (archive footage)
A TV special celebrating the 15th anniversary of Saturday Night Live. Before a celebrity audience, many of the former cast members and guest hosts return to perform their signature monologues and present a look back at some of the best comedy skits and musical numbers of the past 15 years.
Free to Be... a Family
Self
Seminal TV special about two groups of children, one in New York City and the other in Moscow, who befriend each other over a satellite connection and find common ground. The Muppets and several celebrities make a cameo.
Haunted Honeymoon
Vickie Pearl
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.
The Best of John Belushi
Various characters
Movers & Shakers
Livia Machado
Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. He undertakes to make a major movie using the title - if not the content - of a best-selling sex manual "Love in Sex". Enlisting the help of depressed screenwriter Herb Derman and rather off-centre director Sid Spokane to try and come up with an idea or two, Joe soon wishes he was not one of those people who always try to keep their promises.
The Woman in Red
Ms. Milner
When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.
It Came from Hollywood
Herself
Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Gilda Radner and Cheech and Chong present this compilation of classic bad films from the 50's, 60's and 70's. Special features on gorilla pictures, anti-marijuana films and a special tribute to the worst film maker of all-time, Ed Wood.
Hanky Panky
Kate Hellman
The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
First Family
Gloria Link
When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.
Gilda Live
Writer
A filmed version of the Broadway show starring comedienne Gilda Radner, complete with the characters she made famous on the TV show "Saturday Night Live."
Gilda Live
Herself
A filmed version of the Broadway show starring comedienne Gilda Radner, complete with the characters she made famous on the TV show "Saturday Night Live."
Animalympics
Barbra Warblers
Animalympics is all about the Animal Olympics Contest where all the animals around the world gather to take part in everything from skiing in North America to the very long marathon race in humid conditions.
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
Herself
Mike O'Donoghue's parody of "Mondo Cane" showcases curious performers, strange musicians, celebrity mutations and unusual short films, including Thomas Alva Edison's "Elephant Electrocution". In the tradition of films like Groove Tube (1974), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), and Saturday Night Live.
Bob & Ray, Jane, Laraine & Gilda
A series of skits feature the Finley Quality Network and its many quality TV shows.
The Things We Did Last Summer
Herself
This episodic comedy features the original cast of Saturday Night Live as they present individual skits that describe their summer vacations. Among the highlights is a concert segment featuring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as the Blues Brothers.
Witch's Night Out
Witch (The Fairy Godmother)
A witch, disgruntled by the fact that no one takes Halloween seriously anymore, decides to stir things up and disrupt the social gathering in her old house as well as turn a couple of kids who love monsters into actual monsters.
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
Mrs. Emily Pules
The story of the rise and fall of the Pre-Fab Four.
The Gift of Winter
Nicely / Malicious / Narrator (voice)
Long, long ago the world didn't have any snow and winter was a time of wind, darkness and cold. One day a group of kids with a heartfelt cause to transform the season marched to the Ministry of Winter to persuade the all-powerful, icy-hearted Mr.Winter to use his magic and bestow the great gift of snowfall upon the world. It's a gift that makes the season full of wonder and joy, it is The Gift of Winter.
The Last Detail
Nichiren Shoshu Member
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.