Known for Acting
Sam McMurray (born April 15, 1952) is an American television, film and voice actor. He is known for his roles as Supervisor Patrick O'Boyle in the CBS sitcom The King of Queens, Glen in the Coen Brothers comedy film Raising Arizona, Trent Culpepper in the sitcom Cristela, and for voicing Roy in the family sitcom Dinosaurs. He also appeared as Doug on the NBC sitcom Friends, Ned on the CBS sitcom Mom, and as a gay man named Andy in the fifth season of Married With Children. He is noted for being the first-ever guest star on The Simpsons. Among his film credits are C.H.U.D. (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), The Wizard (1989) as Jimmy's stepfather Mr. Bateman, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), L.A. Story (1991), Addams Family Values (1993), and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). On television, he was a regular on The Tracey Ullman Show, voiced Roy in the series Dinosaurs, and played recurring roles such as Chandler's boss on Friends, dentist Vic Schweiber on Freaks and Geeks, Doug and Deacon's boss in The King of Queens, and Ned in the sitcom Mom. He was also in episodes of The Jeffersons, Hill Street Blues, The Golden Girls, Who's the Boss?, Married With Children, Home Improvement, Disney's Recess, The Sopranos, The Tick, Malcolm in the Middle, and Breaking Bad, among others. He was married to actress Elizabeth Collins; they have two daughters. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Born
April 15, 1952 (age 74)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
64 films, 92 shows


Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story
2023 · 1h 32m · US
When a beautiful, tall, aging Hollywood star and a short, funny Jewish man try online dating, it's a disaster. But when they randomly meet at a bird store, what are the chances? He is immediately smitten, but she not so much. As he pursues the woman of his dreams, his charm, sense of humor, and multiple impressions win her over in their heartwarming (almost completely true) love story.


7000 Miles
2023
A passionate pilot who is inspired by her grandmother's mysterious legacy must decide what is more important: protecting the innocence of those you love, or fame and success.


Jenny's Wedding
2015 · 1h 34m · US
Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roommate is actually her fiancée? As the old-fashioned Farrells attempt to come to terms with the prospect of a surprise daughter-in-law, they face a difficult choice: either adapt with the times or risk being left behind.


Pearly Gates
2015 · 1h 28m
Pearly Gates is a story about wanting to be remembered, and knowing that long after death, a person can live on through the memories of family, friends associates and even strangers whose lives that person touched.


Americons
2015 · 1h 29m · US
A broken down collegiate football hero gets a shot at stardom during the eleventh hour of LA's nihilistic sub-prime mortgage boom.


Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
2013 · 2h 28m · US
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing fifty-five-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl, but does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?


2nd Serve
2012 · 1h 26m
(Long Synopsis) "When former tennis pro Owen “Game Set” Match gets fired from his cushy job instructing at the affluent Fountain Club, he’s forced to take a position at the gritty public courts of the Derby City Recreation Center. There he contends with his new co-workers, a ragtag group of tennis pro misfits; his boss Sherry, a strong-willed, single mother; and her son Jake, a goth teenager and secret tennis hopeful. Slowly Owen begins to win over his colleagues, mend his broken friendships and help Jake fix his serve … and develops a romantic connection with Sherry, despite her insistence that she doesn't date tennis pros. Just when things seem to be looking up, Owen’s former boss and court nemesis challenges the Derby City club to a showdown in the annual Combo Cup tennis tournament. As he leads his team of oddball amateurs, Owen learns the most valuable lesson of all … On the court or off, everyone deserves a second chance!"


Cupid
2012 · 1h 20m · US
With Valentine’s Day approaching, Eve Lovett, a workaholic TV talk show host with a string of failed relationships, is worried she will never find true love. But when a mysterious stranger named Vernon Gart shows up on the set claiming to work for Cupid, Inc., Eve has no idea her love life is about to get an arrow right through the heart.


Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
2012 · 1h 16m · US
Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?


The Dealer Plate
2012 · 1h 30m · US
An unscrupulous young car salesman thinks he's found a way to take over his philandering boss' dealership and close the deal with the boss' beautiful daughter, but there is a price to pay when lies overtake love.


Blue-Eyed Butcher
2012 · 1h 25m · US
A woman appeared to have a fairy-tale life, but six years into her marriage, the fairytale crumbles when her husband is found buried in the backyard of their home with numerous stab wounds.


Holiday Engagement
2011 · 1h 32m · US
Thirty-something Hillary Burns has spent her life trying to get the approval of her parents, in the shadow of her more successfully-attached siblings. So when Hillary's fiance, workaholic lawyer Jason King, dumps her because she isn't willing to relocate for his potential promotion, she panics because she had been promising to bring him home to meet her expectant family, whom she does not want to let down! As a last-minute idea, her best friend Sophie convinces her to actually hire someone to "play the role" of Jason for her return home on Thanksgiving.. leading to an interesting combination of sparks & revelations for all involved.


The Craigslist Killer
2011 · 1h 35m · US
Based on a true story, seemingly flawless Philip Markoff, a charismatic and popular medical student at Boston University, leads a double life and starts to descend into a twisted world of gambling, crime, battery, and eventually murder, all while meeting his victims via Craigslist.


Miss Nobody
2010 · 1h 26m · US
A mild-mannered secretary discovers that she has a talent for murder as she ascends the corporate ladder.


Meet Monica Velour
2010 · 1h 38m · US
For Tobe, a nerdy, horny, frizzy-haired cineaste who doesn't quite fit in with the average contemporary teen, the pinnacle of womanhood is Monica Velour, a soft-core actress who reached the zenith of her career in the 1980s. When Tobe learns that his love idol is headlining hundreds of miles away at the Gentlemen's Petting Zoo in Indiana, he drives off with carefree glory, filled with the hope of meeting her.


A Little Help
2010 · 1h 49m · US
It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's a movie for everyone, period. Set in suburban Long Island in the summer of 2002, with the psychic wounds of 9/11 still fresh, A Little Help is a story that takes a comic, searching and profoundly empathetic look at a few pivotal months in the life of dental hygienist Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer)-an ordinary woman whose life suddenly flies off the rails-and her heroic efforts to re-establish a sense of security and normalcy for herself and her son.


Ring of Death
2008 · 1h 25m · US
Burke Wyatt is an innocent, but condemned man behind prison walls. He's found an outlet for his rage. It's called the Death Match, a killer sport devised by sadistic wardens and authorities and played out in the bowels of a maximum security prison.


Killer Pad
2008 · 1h 24m · US
Three naïve guys, in their 20s, drive from Illinois to LA. A sleazy real-estate agent gives them a great deal on a house in the Hollywood Hills. The night they arrive, a solitary Mexican, who speaks only Spanish, tries to warn them that the place is possessed by Satan. They don't understand him, move in, and plan a party after they meet Lucy, their gorgeous neighbor from down the hill. An old friend of theirs, studying to be a priest, joins them. In the basement is a portal to Hell, so at the party, guests meet their end in various ways. Lucy and her friends may not be who the lads think. Is there any hope for these innocents? Maybe their neutered dog can help.


A Christmas Too Many
2007 · 1h 34m · US
Disaster strikes when an aging actress invites her eccentric family to Hollywood for the holidays.


Dane Cook - The Lost Pilots
2007 · 47m
The disc features the popular comedian in two hilarious but unaired television pilots. In the first pilot, Cook stars as a comedian just cast in a sitcom; in the second, he plays a slacker who drags his pals through unusual adventures.


Lake Placid 2
2007 · 1h 28m · CA
Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake as two males and one aggressive female crocodile, which is protecting her nest, wreak havoc on the locals.


Tennis Anyone?
2006 · 1h 50m · US
Two mid level Hollywood losers attempt to find redemption, revenge and meaning in their lives through celebrity tennis tournaments.


Cruel But Necessary
2005 · 1h 32m · US
A suburban housewife uses a hidden camera to compulsively record everyone around her.


Confessions of an Action Star
2005 · 1h 23m · US
A 'mockumentary' on the rise and fall of Chip and Dales dancer turned martial arts action star, Francis Allen Sledgewick, AKA Frank Sledge. When fame and fortune caused Frank to lose his sense of what's truly important, he realized he'd have to get in touch with his roots, if there's ever going to be a comeback.


Batman Beyond: School Days and Spellbound
2004 · 2h 4m
As Terry takes up the mantle of the Dark Knight, he finds the pressure of High School just as demanding.Terry confronts the evil of the hypnotic Spellbinder.


Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade
2003 · 1h 2m · US
Everyone's favorite fourth graders have graduated! It's an all-new school year for the kids — and the gang hits the fifth grade running! But they're stopped in their tracks when they discover some unwelcome changes — no pizza, no playground... no lockers! And to make things worse, their teacher turns out to be the cantankerous Miss Finster! It's all too much for T.J., who is determined to find a way to stand up for what the gang believes in and improve the school they love! The fifth grade brings out the best in everyone... even Miss Finster and Principal Prickly!


Recess: All Growed Down
2003 · 1h 1m · US
T.J. and The Recess Gang are kidnapped by the Third Street School's kindergartners, who are in turn being bullied by a new kid in their class.


Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003 · 50m · US
Comedy special spotlighting Tracey Ullman’s larger than life character Ruby Romaine from HBO's Tracey Takes On (1996–1999). After an illustrious career, veteran Hollywood makeup artist Ruby has decided to call it quits. Or has she? In her makeup trailer, Ruby tells a series of hilarious tales and explains why she reconsidered her retirement. With Debbie Reynolds, Jane Kaczmarek.


Stealing Sinatra
2003 · 1h 36m
In need of a grubstake, a young man convinces a couple of friends to help him kidnap Frank Sinatra Jr. It's a true story


Wishcraft
2002 · 1h 42m · US
Brett is a high-school outcast who doesn't run with the in crowd, unlike Samantha, the cheerleader he has a desperate crush on. Then one day, he gets a parcel in the mail -- a totem with the power to grant his deepest, darkest desires. Brett wishes for Samantha to love him, and she does, although after a while her affection starts leaning toward obsession. Then murders start occurring in the school, which Brett gradually starts to connect to the totem.


Sunshine State
2002 · 2h 21m · US
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.


Lone Star State of Mind
2002 · 1h 28m · US
Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby's dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap of trouble, Earl has just 48 hours to save the day, rescue Junior and keep his promise to get his Baby to Los Angeles in time for sweeps.


Recess Christmas: Miracle On Third Street
2001 · 1h 3m · US
Principal Prickly gets his car stuck in a snowbank and decides it has to be the Recess gang's fault, but the teachers look back and remember all the good times they've had with T.J. and the rest of the gang.


The Amati Girls
2001 · 1h 31m · US
Four sisters who disagree about everything... except what matters most. Family.


Lucky Numbers
2000 · 1h 45m · FR
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.


Drop Dead Gorgeous
1999 · 1h 38m · US
In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.


The Mod Squad
1999 · 1h 32m · US
Three youthful delinquents escape conviction for their crimes by teaming with the LAPD.


Baby Geniuses
1999 · 1h 35m · US
BabyCo is the world's leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn't know, is that Drs Kinder and Heep, two of its most brilliant scientists, are tirelessly working in complete secrecy to crack the indecipherable code to 'baby talk': a highly sophisticated language, and the key to the secrets of the universe. Before long, problems arise when mischievous Sly, the smartest of the toddlers, escapes confinement, bent on uniting all babies to free those trapped in the laboratory. Now, Kinder and Heep must find Sly before it is too late.


Batman Beyond: The Movie
1999 · 41m · US
Fuelled by remorse and vengeance, a high schooler named Terry McGinnis becomes the new Batman as he fights crime in the futuristic Neo-Gotham City.


Soccer Dog: The Movie
1999 · 1h 39m · US
A heart-warming comedy about the friendship between the new kid in town and a soccer-playing dog on the lam from the dog-catcher. It's up to these two underdogs to win the PeeWee Soccer League championship game.


Slappy and the Stinkers
1998 · 1h 18m · US
Five 2nd-grade kids who don't follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed "Stinkers" by him. On the class visit to an aquarium the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn't feel too good there, "free" him, and plant him into Brinway's hot-tub.


Savage
1997 · 1h 38m · US
After his family is murdered, and he's left for dead, a farmer awakens in the desert and finds himself transformed into a savage warrior, with all the powers and skills of the ancient gods. Guided by his "spirit masters" he's given a mission; destroy Tital Corporation, the world's most powerful high-tech computer company and its ambitious leader, Michael Burroughs. Burrough's has discovered the technological remains of an ancient race and a secret that will allow him to open the Vortex and achieve immortality. Out in the desert, ancient powers collide with sophisticated technology as the Savage and Burroughs meet in a titanic struggle that could destroy mankind.


The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas
1996 · 1h 31m · US
The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie missing his home in Transylvania. Soon the entire family bands together to teach the young boy everything great about the holiday season.
Teenage Confidential
Teenage Confidential
1996 · 1h · US
Overprotective parents hire a private eye to follow her every move.


Dear God
1996 · 1h 52m · US
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter office, he starts a Good Samaritan con by answering letters written to God. His seemingly virtuous work inspires his co-workers to do the same, but their good deeds are frowned upon by the postmaster general—and the cops.


Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
1994 · 1h 20m · US
Spoof-meister, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles


Getting Even with Dad
1994 · 1h 49m · US
Con man Ray is going after one last heist – a stash of rare coins – when his estranged son Timmy unexpectedly shows up. Ray is too preoccupied with his robbery to spend time with his son, so Timmy blackmails him into acting like a father, hiding the coins and promises to return them only after Ray takes him to amusement parks and baseball games.


Addams Family Values
1993 · 1h 34m · US
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.


Stone Cold
1991 · 1h 32m · US
Joe Huff is a tough, loner cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Huff into an undercover operation that entails infiltrating The Brotherhood – a powerful Mississippi biker gang linked in the murder of government officials as well as dealing drugs with the mafia.


L.A. Story
1991 · 1h 35m · US
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.


Little Vegas
1990 · 1h 31m · US
Quirky serio-comedy about the unusual residents of a desert trailer park that mobsters want to turn into a gambling mecca.
The Best of the Tracey Ullman Show
The Best of the Tracey Ullman Show
1990 · 1h 30m · US


The Wizard
1989 · 1h 40m · US
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video game championship.


National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989 · 1h 37m · US
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.


Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
1987 · 23m · US
An older widower accidentally stumbles into a lively, eccentric male dance class in a desolate mall, finding a new lease on life.


Hands of a Stranger
1987 · 2h 10m · US
A New York cop becomes obsessed with finding his wife's rapist.


Raising Arizona
1987 · 1h 34m · US
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.


Adam: His Song Continues
1986 · 1h 40m · US
Follows the true story of John and Reve Walsh who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.


Out of the Darkness
1985 · 1h 34m · US
A gripping thriller telling the true story of the hunt and capture of David Berkowitz, a.k.a. "Son of Sam" — the infamous serial killer who stalked New York in the 70s.


Fast Forward
1985 · 1h 50m · US
Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait some time before they take part in it. So they try to do their best to survive in the Big Apple before competition, and get some lessons about the real World.


C.H.U.D.
1984 · 1h 36m · US
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.


Baby It's You
1983 · 1h 45m · US
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.


Union City
1980 · 1h 26m · US
A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.


The Front
1976 · 1h 35m · US
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.