Phil Foster Movies
American actor Phil Foster started out as a stand-up comedian when he was quite young. Most of his early routines were slapstick, and the material was drawn from his life growing up in a Brooklyn neighborhood. After working the nightclub circuit through the 1940s, Foster began appearing on television variety shows such as Ed Sullivan. In the 1970s, he became a regular on Laverne and... (read more) Shirley. Beginning in 1954, he made infrequent journeys into feature films. Foster made his final feature film, Sno-Line in 1985. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Sno-Line
R 1985
In an unusual move, this gangster story features no good guys, telling its tale strictly within the confines of the mob. Steve King (Vince Edwards) is trying to gain control of...
Laverne & Shirley: Season 08
1983
Laverne & Shirley was Laverne & Shirley in name only as the series entered its eighth and final season. For a variety of reasons, chief among them her feelings that she was...
Laverne & Shirley: Councilman DeFazio
1983
Outraged when graft-happy Congressman Pike (Shecky Greene) announces plans to tear down Cowboy Bill's in order to construct a high-rise office building, Frank (Phil Foster)...
Laverne & Shirley: Season 07
1982
Here's the status quo as Laverne & Shirley enters its seventh season. Ex-Milwaukeeans Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) are still living in...
Laverne & Shirley: Season 06
1981
To counteract a precipitous drop in its ratings during its previous season, Laverne & Shirley launched season six by shifting the series' locale from Milwaukee, WI, to Burbank,...
The Great American Traffic Jam
1980
In this made-for-TV farce, the urban phenomenon of the traffic jam and the effect it has on the lives of the participants is examined. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi...
Laverne & Shirley: Season 05
1980
Season five of Laverne & Shirley begins with the conclusion of a two-part story inaugurated on its "sister" series Happy Days: "Shotgun Wedding, Part 2," wherein...
Laverne & Shirley: Season 04
1979
Season four of Laverne & Shirley found the series' time frame progressing from the late '50s to the early '60s. The season opener is the two-part "Festival," wherein...
Having Babies 3
1978
This third entry in the made-for-TV Having Babies saga was first telecast March 3, 1978. Susan Sullivan heads the cast as Dr. Julie Farr, presiding over three impending...
Laverne & Shirley: Season 03
1978
When Laverne & Shirley signed on in January of 1976, America's top-rated program was Happy Days -- of which Laverne & Shirley was, of course, a spin-off. By the time the...
Laverne & Shirley: Breaking Up and Making Up
1978
The budding romance between Laverne's widowed father Frank (Phil Foster) and five-time divorcee Edna (Betty Garrett) is threatened when the most recent of Edna's...
The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
R 1977
When a sex scandal threatens to blow the top off Washington politics, celebrated madame and advice columnist Xaviera Hollander (Joey Heatherton) is drawn into the fray. The...
Laverne & Shirley: Season 02
1977
Ending its first season as America's second most popular TV series (its "inspiration," Happy Days, was the first), Laverne & Shirley held fast to the second-place slot...
Laverne & Shirley: Season 01
1976
Exploiting the overwhelmingly positive audience response to the 1975 Happy Days episode in which Richie (Ron Howard) and Potsie (Anson Williams) found themselves on...
Bang the Drum Slowly
PG 1973
A guaranteed tear-jerker, Bang the Drum Slowly centers on professional baseball player Bruce Pearson (Robert DeNiro) and his team mate Henry Wiggen (Michael Moriarty),...
Every Little Crook and Nanny
PG 1972
In this drama, a woman's dancing school is overrun by gangster's who begin using it for a betting parlor. As a result, she becomes the nanny for the mob boss's son. Soon she...
Hail
1972
Any resemblance between the U.S. president in Hail and Richard M. Nixon was purely intentional. Faced with rebellious teenagers and college students, paranoid chief executive...
The Patsy
1964
Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness and fame that has to be the most rancid...
Conquest of Space
1955
George Pal's now-quaint science fiction odyssey concerns a multi-national group on the first space flight to Mars. Pal pulls out all stops in the special effects...