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Jan Hooks is a Actor American born on 23 april 1957 at Decatur (USA)

Jan Hooks

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Birth name Janet Vivian Hooks
Nationality USA
Birth 23 april 1957 at Decatur (USA)
Death 9 october 2014 (at 57 years) at New York City (USA)

Janet Vivian "Jan" Hooks (April 23, 1957 – October 9, 2014) was an American actress and comedian best known for her work on Saturday Night Live, where she was a repertory player from 1986–91, and continued making cameo appearances until 1994. Her subsequent work included a regular role on the final two seasons of Designing Women, a recurring role on 3rd Rock from the Sun and a number of other roles in film and television.

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Tim Burton
Tim Burton
(2 films)
Terry Turner
Terry Turner
(2 films)
Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens
(2 films)
Martin Short
Martin Short
(1 films)
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Filmography of Jan Hooks (9 films)

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Actress

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, 1h30
Directed by Vadim Jean
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Martin Short, Robert Trebor, Jan Hooks, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Perkins, Linda Cardellini
Roles Dixie Glick
Rating51% 2.5503852.5503852.5503852.5503852.550385
Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood starts off as an Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood spoof, but develops into a murder mystery, with David Lynch played by Martin Short as a makeshift Hercule Poirot.
Simon Birch, 1h54
Directed by Mark Steven Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Buddy films
Actors Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Jim Carrey, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn
Roles Miss Leavey
Rating67% 3.3991953.3991953.3991953.3991953.399195
Simon Birch est un petit garçon nain. Persuadé que Dieu l'a créé petit pour accomplir quelque chose de grand, il part à la recherche de son destin.
A Dangerous Woman, 1h41
Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, Laurie Metcalf, John Terry, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Roles Makeup Girl
Rating56% 2.849572.849572.849572.849572.84957
Martha Horgan (Winger) struggles to have a normal life in spite of being mentally challenged. She is fired from a job at the local dry-cleaner's after accusations of stealing from the cash register, something she believes the boyfriend of her work colleague Birdie (Chloe Webb) has been doing.
Coneheads
Coneheads (1993)
, 1h28
Directed by Steve Barron
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Ellen DeGeneres, Michael McKean, David Spade
Roles Gladys Johnson, Driving Student
Rating54% 2.7001152.7001152.7001152.7001152.700115
Upon discovering a UFO in American airspace, the National Guard sends fighter jets to investigate, and they fire on the craft when it doesn't respond. Belatedly activating a cloaking device too late, the spaceship crashes into the Atlantic ocean, near land. The aliens aboard, Beldar Clorhone and his life-mate Prymaat, survive and quickly adapt to our human way of life, despite standing out with their conical shaped heads. Beldar gets work as an appliance repairman, and when his grateful boss Otto discovers that Beldar has no documentation, he arranges for a false identity, which sends up a red flag that quickly alerts the INS. Meanwhile, after communicating with their world (Remulak) and discovering that a rescue vessel will not arrive for seven "Zurls" (many years), Prymaat informs Beldar that she is pregnant. They now need to completely adapt and safely blend in in order to raise their child among humans. Ambitious INS agent Gorman Seedling and his assistant Eli attempt to capture Beldar and Prymaat, but they are able to elude the two agents.
Batman Returns, 2h6
Directed by Tim Burton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Christmas films, Films about cats, Batman films, Superhero films, Political films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Michael Murphy
Roles Jen
Rating70% 3.5483053.5483053.5483053.5483053.548305
Tucker and Esther Cobblepot, an aristocratic couple, throw their deformed infant child in a river, feeling that Gotham City's high society would not approve after witnessing their son kill their pet cat. However, a flock of penguins living in an abandoned zoo's arctic exhibit connected to the sewers rescue and raise him. 33 years later, the child becomes The Penguin (Danny DeVito) and the leader of the Red Triangle Circus Gang, who appear in Gotham City during the annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony and cause a riot. As the police and Batman (Michael Keaton) deal with the riot, one of the guests at the ceremony, a prominent businessman named Max Shreck (Christopher Walken), is kidnapped and taken to the Penguin, who desires to become a citizen of Gotham and blackmails Shreck into helping him by threatening to expose evidence of his corporate crimes.
Funland
Funland (1987)
, 1h38
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors David L. Lander, William Windom, Jan Hooks, Bruce Mahler, Clark Brandon, Michael McManus
Roles Shelly Willingham
Rating43% 2.169282.169282.169282.169282.16928
Funland is a family-oriented amusement park owned by the eccentric Angus Perry. Niel Stickney, the clown mascot and one of the founders of the park and its former accountant, suffered a nervous breakdown and his grip on reality is slowly deteriorating. After the mob kills Angus and takes over the park, Stickney begins to have increasingly bizarre hallucinations, including envisioning the patrons of the park cafeteria spontaneously breaking into song and dance and seeing visions of the dead Angus. He then begins to believe himself to be his clown persona, Bruce Burger. After the new mafia management fires him, he finally snaps. He buys a rifle, intending to kill his replacement and reclaim the theme park.
Wildcats
Wildcats (1986)
, 1h46
Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Films about racism, Sports films, American football films
Actors Goldie Hawn, Jan Hooks, Swoosie Kurtz, Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Robyn Lively
Roles Stephanie Needham
Rating60% 3.0017253.0017253.0017253.0017253.001725
Molly McGrath is the daughter of a famed football coach who is dying to head her own team. When her wish is finally granted, Molly leaves her job coaching girls' track at an affluent high school (Prescott High School) to take over a football team at an inner-city high school (Central High School)--the kind of place where guard dogs are needed to patrol the campus. At first the new coach’s idealism and optimism are suffocated with racial and gender prejudice, but eventually her overriding spirit begins to whip her unruly team into shape. At the same time, she must also struggle to win a battle for the custody of her two young daughters. The real test for Molly comes when her Central High team faces Prescott in the city championship.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure, 1h30
Directed by Tim Burton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about films, Sports films, Transport films, Cycling films, Road movies
Actors Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Phil Hartman, Manuel Benitez
Roles Tina
Rating69% 3.4962553.4962553.4962553.4962553.496255
Pee-wee Herman is a puer aeternus with a pimped-out bicycle that he treasures and that his neighbor, Francis Buxton, covets. A bike shop employee, Dottie, has a crush on Pee-wee, but he does not reciprocate it. Pee-wee's bike gets stolen while at the mall. He confronts Francis, who has an air-tight alibi. Pee-wee then offers a $10,000 reward for his bike. Francis, who did indeed pay to have someone steal the bike, is frightened by Pee-wee's relentlessness and then pays to have it sent away. After holding a meeting, Pee Wee angrily shouts Dottie down while she is giving suggestions to him and refused to admit he needed help from Dottie while telling her off. Now mad, Pee Wee gives Dottie a furious "I DON'T NEED ANYBODY!" Desperate, Pee-wee visits a psychic, Madam Ruby, who lies to him, claiming that the bike is in the basement of the Alamo. Pee-wee hitchhikes to Texas, getting rides from a fugitive, Mickey, and from a ghostly trucker, Large Marge.
Frosty Returns, 30minutes
Directed by Bill Meléndez
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Christmas films
Actors Jonathan Winters, John Goodman, Elisabeth Moss, Brian Doyle-Murray, Andrea Martin, Jan Hooks
Roles Lil
Rating49% 2.4607052.4607052.4607052.4607052.460705
The special begins with a musical number showing that Beansboro Elementary School is canceled for the day due to a seven-inch snowfall. While the adults incessantly complain about the problems snow and ice cause, the children enjoy the opportunity to play in it.