Madeline Kahn

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
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Birthday
Sep 29, 1942 (82 years old)
Death date
Dec 03, 1999

Madeline Kahn

Known For

Who Done It: The Clue Documentary
1h 46m
Movie 2022

Who Done It: The Clue Documentary

Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never been a documentary created to tell the behind the scenes stories...until now.

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
1h 9m
Movie 2018

Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great critical acclaim in London in late 2017. Alan Yentob visits Mel at home in Hollywood, at work and at play.

Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West
0h 29m
Movie 2014

Blaze of Glory: Mel Brooks' Wild, Wild West

A documentary about Mel Brooks' legendary 1974 comedy «Blazing Saddles».

Cosby
TV Show 1996

Cosby

Cosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked with Cosby in the 1984–1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Madeline Kahn portrayed their neighbor, Pauline, until her death in 1999.

New York News
1h 0m
TV Show 1995

New York News

New York News is a newspaper drama which was broadcast in the United States by CBS as part of its 1995 fall lineup.

Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House
0h 30m
TV Show 1991

Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House

Kurt Vonnegut, the author of a collection of short stories called "Welcome to the Monkey House", hosts a series that displays dramatizations of several of his short stories. The anthology series aired on Showtime network from 1991 to 1993. The first three stories were produced as a television pilot in British Columbia, Canada, and broadcast together from 9:00–10:30pm on May 12, 1991. The later four were filmed and produced in New Zealand in 1992, as a co-production with South Pacific Pictures.

Betsy's Wedding
1h 34m
Movie 1990

Betsy's Wedding

Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration
1h 39m
Movie 1988

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration

The life, career, and music of Irving Berlin are celebrated live on stage with musical performances.

Mr. President
0h 30m
TV Show 1987

Mr. President

Mr. President is a United States television series starring George C. Scott that premiered on May 3, 1987. It was part of the Fox Broadcasting Company's premiere season of prime time entertainment, alongside Married... With Children, The Tracey Ullman Show, and Duet.

Wanted: The Perfect Guy
0h 46m
Movie 1986

Wanted: The Perfect Guy

Sensing his mom is lonely and looking for companionship, a 13-year-old places a personal ad for 'The Perfect Guy'

Biography

Madeline Gail Kahn (née Wolfson; September 29, 1942 – December 3, 1999) was an American actress, comedian and singer, known for comedic roles in films directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Mel Brooks, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), Young Frankenstein (1974), High Anxiety (1977), History of the World, Part I (1981), and her Academy Award–nominated roles in Paper Moon (1973) and Blazing Saddles (1974). Kahn made her Broadway debut in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1968, and received Tony Award nominations for the play In the Boom Boom Room in 1974 and for the original production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978. She starred as Madeline Wayne on the short-lived sitcom Oh Madeline (1983–84) and won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1987 for an ABC Afterschool Special. She received a third Tony Award nomination for the revival of the play Born Yesterday in 1989, before winning the 1993 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the comedy The Sisters Rosensweig. Her other film appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995). Description above from the Wikipedia article Madeline Kahn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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