John Astin
Film

John Astin

Section Title: Film
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Year	Title	Role	Notes	ref

1960	The Pusher	Detective

1961	West Side Story	Glad Hand, Social Worker Leading Dance	American romantic musical drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet.

1962	That Touch of Mink	Mr. Everett Beasley

1963	Move Over Darling	Clyde Prokey	The picture was a remake of a screwball comedy film, My Favorite Wife (1940), with Irene Dunne, Cary Grant and Gail Patrick.

The Wheeler Dealers	SEC official	Released as Separate Beds in the UK

1967	The Spirit Is Willing	Dr. Frieden

1968	Candy	Daddy / Uncle Jack	Sex farce film directed by Christian Marquand based on the 1958 novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, from a screenplay by Buck Henry.

1969	Viva Max!	Sergeant Valdez	Comedy film

1971	Bunny O'Hare	Ad	American comedy film directed by Gerd Oswald. Bette Davis was unhappy with the final film and sued AIP for $3.3 million in damages.

1972	Un secuestro de locura	Star	Spanish-language film. Directed by Cy Howard.

Evil Roy Slade	Evil Roy Slade

Get to Know Your Rabbit	Mr. Turnbull

Every Little Crook and Nanny	Vito Garbugli

Wacky Taxi	Pepper

1973	The Brothers O'Toole	Michael O'Toole / Desperate Ambrose Littleberry

1976	Freaky Friday	Bill Andrews	American fantasy comedy film directed by Gary Nelson.

1985	National Lampoon's European Vacation	Kent Winkdale (host of "Pig in a Poke")	Originally given the working title Vacation '2' Europe. The second film in National Lampoon's Vacation film series.

1987	Teen Wolf Too	Dean Dunn	American comedy film The sequel to Teen Wolf.

Body Slam	Scotty the car dealer	American comedy film directed by Hal Needham.

1988	Return of the Killer Tomatoes	Professor Mortimer Gangreen	A horror comedy film The second film in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes film series.

1989	Night Life	Uncle Verlin	A horror comedy film

1990	Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Janitor	American horror comedy film. The sequel to Gremlins.

Killer Tomatoes Strike Back	Professor Mortimer Gangreen	The third film in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes film series.

1991	Killer Tomatoes Eat France	Professor Mortimer Gangreen	The fourth film in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes film series.

1993	Stepmonster	Minister	Direct-to-video film

1994	The Silence of the Hams	The Ranger	Italian: Il Silenzio dei Prosciutti Parody film of many popular thriller and horror films, notably The Silence of the Lambs and Psycho.

Huck and the King of Hearts	Zach

1996	The Frighteners	The Judge	New Zealand-American horror comedy fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson and co-written with his wife, Fran Walsh.

2006	What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole	Dr. Quantum	Voice

2015	Starship II: Rendezvous with Ramses	Professor Peabody

Sentence(s)

In 1996, John Astin featured as The Judge in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners.

final_sentence: In 1996, John Astin featured as The Judge in Peter Jackson's The Frighteners.