Billy Crystal is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 14 march 1948 at New York City (USA)
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal participated to
45 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
9 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Actor
, 1h42
Directed by Dan ScanlonOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Fantasy,
Adventure,
AnimationThemes L'adolescence,
Films about education,
Films about children,
Films about the labor movement,
Time travel films,
Children's films,
Films about school violence,
Harcèlement au travailActors Billy Crystal,
John Goodman,
Steve Buscemi,
Joel Murray,
Sean Hayes,
Dave FoleyRoles Mike Wazowski (voice)
Rating71%
A young monster named Michael "Mike" Wazowski dreams of being a scarer (a monster who enters the human world at night to scare children so their screams can be harvested for energy) when he grows up, after visiting Monsters Inc. (Monstropolis' most profitable and best-known scaring company) on a school field trip. Eleven years later, Mike is a first-year scare major at Monsters University, where he meets a monster named James P. "Sulley" Sullivan., 1h32
Directed by Lee Unkrich,
Pete Docter,
David SilvermanOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Fantasy,
AnimationThemes Time travel films,
Buddy films,
Children's filmsActors John Goodman,
Billy Crystal,
Steve Buscemi,
Mary Gibbs,
James Coburn,
Jennifer TillyRoles Mike (voice)
Rating80%
The parallel city of Monstropolis is inhabited by monsters and powered by the screams of children in the human world. At the factory of Monsters, Inc., employees called "scarers" venture into children's bedrooms to scare them and collect their screams, using closet doors as portals. This is considered a dangerous task because the monsters believe children are toxic and that touching them would be fatal. However, production is falling as children are becoming harder to scare and the company's chairman Henry J. Waternoose III is determined to find a solution. The top scarer is James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, who lives with his friend and assistant Mike Wazowski and has a rivalry with the ever-determined chameleon-like monster Randall Boggs. During an ordinary day's work on what is known as the "Scarefloor", another scarer accidentally brings a child's sock into the factory, causing the Child Detection Agency (CDA) to arrive and cleanse him. Mike is frequently ridiculed by the company's clerk Roz for never completing his paperwork on time., 1h53
Directed by Ron UnderwoodOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
Adventure,
WesternThemes Films about animals,
Films about cows,
Buddy films,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Billy Crystal,
Bruno Kirby,
Daniel Stern,
Patricia Wettig,
Helen Slater,
Jack PalanceRoles Mitch Robbins
Rating67%
New Yorker Mitch Robbins has just turned 39 years old, and is having a midlife crisis. His best friends are also having crises of their own: Phil Berquist is stuck managing his father-in-law's grocery store, while trapped in a 12-year sexless marriage with his ruthless wife, Arlene, and Ed Furillo (Bruno Kirby) is a successful sporting-goods salesman and playboy, having recently married an underwear model, but is struggling with the idea of monogamous marriage and the pressure to have kids., 1h43
Directed by Harold RamisOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
CrimeThemes Mafia films,
Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about psychiatry,
Psychanalyse,
Gangster filmsActors Robert De Niro,
Billy Crystal,
Lisa Kudrow,
Chazz Palminteri,
Joe Viterelli,
Molly ShannonRoles Dr. Ben Sobel
Rating66%
Mob boss Paul Vitti narrates a brief history of the Mafia: in the wake of Albert Anastasia's death, the dispute over who among Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino and Joe Bananas will ascend to mob supremacy results in the Apalachin Meeting in upstate New York. The meeting is raided by the FBI, and the Mafia does not call a summit again until the present day., 1h36
Directed by Rob ReinerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Children's films,
Nouvel anActors Billy Crystal,
Meg Ryan,
Carrie Fisher,
Bruno Kirby,
Steven Ford,
Lisa Jane PerskyRoles Harry Burns
Rating76%
In 1977, Harry Burns (Crystal) and Sally Albright (Ryan) graduate from the University of Chicago and share the drive to New York City, where Sally is beginning Journalism school and Harry is starting a career; at the time, Harry is dating a friend of Sally's, Amanda (Nicastro)., 1h24
Directed by Danny DeVitoOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Action,
CrimeThemes Transport films,
Rail transport filmsActors Billy Crystal,
Danny DeVito,
Kim Greist,
Kate Mulgrew,
Anne Ramsey,
Branford MarsalisRoles Larry Donner
Rating62%
Novelist Larry Donner (Billy Crystal) struggles with writer's block due to his resentment towards his ex-wife Margaret (Kate Mulgrew), who stole his book and garnered mainstream success and critical acclaim with it. Owen Lift (Danny DeVito) is a timid, middle-aged fellow who still lives with his overbearing, abusive and paranoid mother (Anne Ramsey). Owen fantasizes about killing his mother but can't summon the courage to bring his desires into fruition. As a student in Larry's community college writing class, Owen is given advice by Larry to view an Alfred Hitchcock film to gain some insight into plot development for his mystery stories. He sees Strangers on a Train, in which two strangers conspire to commit a murder for each other, figuring their lack of connection to the victim will, in theory, establish a perfect alibi. Having overheard Larry's public rant that he wished his ex-wife dead, Owen forms a plan to kill Margaret, believing that Larry will, in return, kill his mother., 2h3
Directed by Michael MooreOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
DocumentaryThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about the labor movement,
Documentary films about business,
Documentary films about health care,
Documentaire sur le monde du travailActors Michael Moore,
Tucker Albrizzi,
Billy Crystal,
Bill MaherRoles Self (archive footage)
Rating79%
According to Sicko, almost fifty million Americans are uninsured while the remainder, who are covered, are often victims of insurance company fraud and red tape. Furthermore, Sicko points out that the U.S. health care system is ranked 37 out of 191 by the World Health Organization with certain health measures, such as infant mortality and life expectancy, equal to countries with much less economic wealth. Interviews are conducted with people who thought they had adequate coverage but were denied care. Former employees of insurance companies describe cost-cutting initiatives that give bonuses to insurance company physicians and others to find reasons for the company to avoid meeting the cost of medically necessary treatments for policy holders, and thus increase company profitability., 1h36
Directed by Woody AllenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ComedyThemes Films about writers,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitution,
Films about automobiles,
Demons in film,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Road movies,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Caroline Aaron,
Kirstie Alley,
Bob Balaban,
Richard Benjamin,
Eric Bogosian,
Billy CrystalRoles Larry / The Devil
Rating72%
One night, Lucy (Judy Davis) gets a taxi to the home of author Harry Block (Woody Allen). She has just read Harry's latest novel. In the novel, the character Leslie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is having an affair with her sister's husband Ken (Richard Benjamin). Lucy is angry because the novel is patently based on her and Harry's own affair; as a result, everyone knows about it. Lucy pulls a gun out of her purse, saying she will kill herself. She then turns the gun on Harry and begins firing. She chases him out onto the roof. Harry insists that he has already been punished: his latest girlfriend Fay (Elisabeth Shue) has left him for his best friend Larry (Billy Crystal). To distract Lucy, Harry tells her a story he is currently writing: a semi-autobiographical story of a sex-obsessed young man named Harvey (Tobey Maguire) who is mistakenly claimed by Death., 3minutes
Directed by Pete DocterOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Fantasy,
AnimationThemes Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Children's filmsActors John Goodman,
Billy Crystal,
Jacques Frantz,
Éric Métayer,
Denis Mercier,
Alain ZouviRoles Mike (voice)
Rating70%
Mike is obsessed with his new six-wheel drive car, and insists on showing it off to his pal Sulley. Unfortunately for Mike, everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Sulley plays with the ultra-adjustable seats until an annoyed Mike asks him to stop. Mike starts the engine and the seatbelt reminder tone sounds. Sully manages to get his seatbelt on easily, but Mike finds his seatbelt stuck and accidentally locks himself out of the car while trying to unstick it. Sulley, trying to be helpful but confused by the massive amount of buttons on the dashboard, pops the hood open. When Mike goes over to close it, Sulley ends up trapping Mike in the engine compartment. Mike manages to escape, re-enters the car, and is exasperated by the continuous seatbelt reminder tone. Sulley reaches for another button on the dash, as when Mike managed to put his seat-belt on, he turned the windshield wipers on by accident. Mike shouts, "Don't touch anything!" and pushes a button that launches the entire car into chaotic malfunction, including conga music playing loudly on the car's stereo system. Mike finally ends the chaos by pulling the key out of the ignition, and Sulley adds insult to injury when, in an attempt to realign the rearview mirror, he breaks it off. Mike gets angry, orders Sulley out of the car, and speeds away, wrecking the car completely. Sulley mutters, "Huh, that's weird, the airbag didn't go off." Right on cue, the airbag inflates, and its force sends Mike flying back up the street. Sulley catches Mike, who mourns for his old car before agreeing to walk to work while the credits roll.