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  • Guttenberg, Danson and Selleck are reuniting for Three Men and a Bride - 4 November 2009
    -Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg are reuniting for a new Three Men And A Baby sequel - nearly 20 years after the last installment.- -The trio played bachelor pals forced to raise a baby together after she's left on their doorstep by desperate mum Nancy

Ted Danson - what members say


  • Gulliver's Travels
  • Gulliver's Travels review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Great story, very well adapted--shame about the casting 26 July 2004
    ... all in all this is an enjoyable story with a message. Shame about the casting: Ted Danson is his usual flat, uncharismatic, shallow self. The role calls for someone who ...   Read customer review
  • Cheers - Season 1
  • Cheers - Season 1 review by OPENTHEPODBAYDOORHAL from
    Rated - 5.0 stars Rraise your glass to an evergreen classic. Cheers! 16 October 2012
    ...oint that I'm certainly not gay (just ask my wife and 58 mistresses) but wasn't Ted Danson just the most gorgeous looking man?...   Read customer review
  • Damages - Series 1 - Complete
  • Damages - Series 1 - Complete review by Tiger33 from Nottingham
    Rated - 5.0 stars Unexpected 17 February 2008
    ... close is amazing in this show along with the supporting cast (big shout out to Ted Danson!) i have to say this is without doubt the best new show i've watched ...   Read customer review

Ted Danson - filmography


  • Big Miracle on DVD (2012)
    Starring: Stephen Root,  John Krasinski,  Ted Danson
    Director: Ken Kwapis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a family of grey whales becomes trapped in the Arctic Circle, a Greenpeace volunteer and a small-town reporter go to extraordinary lengths to save the majestic creatures in this romantic adventure inspired by actual events. Alaskan newsman Adam Carlson (John Krasinski) has grown weary of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,326 member
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  • Big Miracle - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Stephen Root,  John Krasinski,  Ted Danson
    Director: Ken Kwapis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski star in this romantic drama set in the Arctic Circle. The film, based on the 1989 book 'Freeing the Whales' by Tom Rose, follows Operation Breakthrough, a real-life 1988 international effort to rescue a family of endangered grey whales trapped by rapidly-forming ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 624 members
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  • Bored to Death - Series 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Jason Schwartzman,  Zach Galifianakis
    Director: Jonathan Ames
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Devastated by the departure of his girlfriend, writer Jonathan Ames (Jason Schwartzmann) distracts himself by taking on some casual work - as a private detective. Co-stars include Ted Danson, Zach Galifianakis and (in an episode entitled The Case of the Missing Screenplay) one Jim Jarmusch.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,100 member
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  • Open Road on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Jeff Bridges,  Lyle Lovett
    Director: Michael Meredith
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Family drama starring Justin Timberlake, Jeff Bridges and Mary Steenburgen. Before she will consent to having a life-saving delicate heart operation, Katherine (Steenburgen) asks her son Carlton (Timberlake) to track down his estranged father, one-time baseball legend Kyle Garrett (Bridges), and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 401 members
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  • Mad Money on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Diane Keaton,  Ted Danson,  Katie Holmes
    Director: Callie Khouri
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Crime comedy starring Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah. When two bored bank clerks, Nina (Latifah) and Jackie (Holmes), become embroiled in a heist along with career mother-turned-cleaner Bridget (Keaton), the unlikely alliance changes all three women's lives forever. The women all have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 4,189 members
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  • Nobel Son on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Alan Rickman,  Bryan Greenberg,  Shawn Hatosy
    Director: Randall Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PHD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 384 members
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  • The Moguls on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Glenne Headly,  John Hawkes
    Director: Michael Traeger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy starring Jeff Bridges as small-town loser Andy Sargentee. Broke, unemployed, and having seen all of his get-rich-quick schemes come to nothing, Andy has to sit back and watch while his ex-wife marries a rich businessman who can provide Andy's son with all the things he wants. Surrounded by ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,668 member
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  • Fronterz (2004)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Henry Winkler,  Garth Belcon
    Director: Courtney Jones
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Comedy set in the world of rap music, as three out-of-work actors decide to pose as gangster rappers. After seeing so many acting jobs being landed by rappers with no acting experience, struggling trio Tracy Baker (Reno Wilson), Ron Lewis (Dennis Pressey) and Malikai Cameron (Garth Belcon) decide ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 3 members
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  • Jerry and Tom (1998)
    Starring: Joe Mantegna,  Sam Rockwell,  Maury Chaykin
    Director: Saul Rubinek
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs which is emphasised when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 16 members
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  • Saving Private Ryan on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Giovanni Ribisi,  Vin Diese
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steven Spielberg's Oscar winning, epic, World War 2 drama is set against the backdrop of the Normandy landings. A squad of American soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), receive top-level instructions to undertake an unusual mission: to rescue Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), whose ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 67,774 members
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  • Gulliver's Travels on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Geraldine Chaplin,  Ned Beatty
    Director: Charles Sturridge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This multi-million dollar television adaptation of the classic Jonathan Swift allegory was first transmitted on television over the Easter weekend in 1996 and drew critical acclaim and massive audiences. The story follows the adventures of Dr Lemuel Gulliver (Ted Danson) as he discovers strange and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 929 members
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  • Loch Ness on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Joely Richardson,  Ted Danson
    Director: John Henderson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Cynical Doctor Jonathan Dempsey (Ted Danson) arrives in Scotland to explode the myth of the Loch Ness Monster once and for all - much to the chagrin of the local community, who rely on the tourist trade that the monster generates. Dempsey becomes involved with the landlady of the pub where he is ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,916 member
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  • Getting Even With Dad on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Glenne Headly,  Hector Elizondo
    Director: Howard Deutch
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Eleven-year-old Timmy (Macaulay Culkin) is about to be reunited with his ex-con father (Ted Danson), who he has not seen for years. Unfortunately he arrives to witness dad, now a pastry chef, preparing for one last heist to set him up for life. However, once the theft has taken place, Timmy hides ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 471 members
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  • Made in America (1993)
    Starring: Whoopi Goldberg,  Ted Danson,  Will Smith
    Director: Richard Benjamin
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Love, marriage, family. That's the usual sequence - but not for Sarah (Whoopi Goldberg) and Hal (Ted Danson). They're the parents of bright, college-bound Zora (Nia Long) - even though Sarah and Hal never met! Goldberg and Danson put a wild new spin on family values in 'Made In America', a romantic ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 992 members
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  • Cheers - Season 11 (4 discs) on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Kelsey Grammer,  Ted Danson,  Rhea Perlman
    Director: James Burrows,  John Ratzenberger
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All 28 episodes from the eleventh and final season of the 1980s US sitcom based in the Boston bar where everybody knows your name. In this season, it's the end of an era as Rebecca (Kirstie Alley) accidentally sets fire to the bar; Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth) leaves Fraser (Kelsey Grammer) to live in an ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 25 members
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  • Cheers - Season 9 (4 discs) on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  George Wendt,  John Ratzenberger
    Director: James Burrows,  Andy Ackerman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    One of the most beloved and critically acclaimed television series of all time, Cheers ran for 10 seasons and centered on the colorful staff and patrons of the Boston bar "where everyone knows your name." Run by former Red Sox pitcher and ladies' man Sam Malone (Ted Danson), the establishment's ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 71 members
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  • Three Men And A Little Lady on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Fiona Shaw,  Tom Selleck
    Director: Emile Ardolino
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this sequel to 'Three Men and a Baby', Mary is now five years old and her mother, Sylvia, wants to find a 'real' father for her child - who is still living with the three bachelors: Peter (Tom Selleck), Jack (Ted Danson) and Michael (Steve Guttenberg). When Edward (Christopher Cazenove) proposes,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 6,127 members
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  • Cheers - Season 8 (4 discs) on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Kelsey Grammer,  Ted Danson,  John Ratzenberger
    Director: James Burrows
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All 26 episodes from the eighth season of the 1980s US sitcom based in the Boston bar where everybody knows your name. The episodes are: 'The Improbable Dream: Part 1', 'The Improbable Dream: Part 2', 'A Bar Is Born', 'How to Marry a Mailman', 'The Two Faces of Norm', 'The Stork Brings a Crane', '..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 34 members
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  • Cousins (1989)
    Starring: Keith Coogan,  Sean Young,  Ted Danson
    Director: Joel Schumacher
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this romantic comedy, two people brought together by marriage are brought even closer by their mates. Maria Hardy (Isabella Rossellini) and Larry Konzinski (Ted Danson) first meet at a wedding, where Maria's mother and Larry's uncle are tying the knot. However, the new cousins also have ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 309 members
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  • Cheers - Season 5 (4 discs) on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Woody Harrelson,  Shelley Long
    Director: James Burrows
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All 26 episodes from the fifth series of the 1980s US sitcom based in the bar where everybody knows your name. In this series it transpires that Sammy's (Ted Danson) mystery telephone proposal at the end of the last series was indeed, to Diane (Shelley Long). The romance doesn't last though, and by ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 560 members
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  • Three Men And A Baby on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Tom Selleck,  Nancy Travis
    Director: Leonard Nimoy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Bachelors Peter Mitchell (Tom Selleck), Jack Holden (Ted Danson) and Michael Kellam (Steve Guttenberg) live together in an opulent Manhattan penthouse. While Jack is away, a 'package' arrives for him: a baby girl. Peter and Michael are forced to cope with the rigours of childcare until Jack returns ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 8,095 members
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  • Cheers - Season 4 (4 discs) on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Kelsey Grammer,  Ted Danson,  John Ratzenberger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    All 26 episodes from the fourth series of the 1980s US sitcom based in the bar where everybody knows your name. Episodes are: 'Birth, Death, Love and Rice', 'Woody Goes Belly Up', 'Some Day My Prince Will Come', 'The Groom Wore Clearasil', 'Diane's Nightmare', 'I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday', '2 ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,050 member
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  • Cheers - Season 3 (4 discs) on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Shelley Long,  Rhea Perlman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Join Sam Malone (Ted Danson), Coach (Nicholas Colasanto), Carla (Rhea Perlma), Norm (George Wendt), Cliff (John Ratzenberger) and Diane (Shelley Long) in the bar where everybody knows your name for the complete Third Season of Cheers. Episode titles: Rebound Part One, Rebound Part Two, I Call Your ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 965 members
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  • Cheers - Season 2 (4 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Shelley Long
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The entire second series of the US sitcom (based in the bar where everybody knows your name) following the love-hate romance between Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long), the hate-hate relationship between Carla (Rhea Perlman) and Cliff (John Ratzenberger), and the indestructible love affair ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,437 member
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  • Cheers - Season 1 (4 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Kelsey Grammer,  Ted Danson,  John Ratzenberger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The entire first series of the US sitcom (based in the bar where everybody knows your name) following the love-hate romance between Sam (Ted Danson) and Diane (Shelley Long), the hate-hate relationship between Carla (Rhea Perlman) and Cliff (John Ratzenberger), and the indestructible love affair ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,882 member
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  • Body Heat on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Mickey Rourke,  Richard Crenna
    Director: Lawrence Kasdan
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Lawrence Kasdan's first directorial effort is a throwback to the early days of film noir. The scene is a beastly hot Florida coastal town, where naive attorney Ned (William Hurt) is entranced by the alluring Matty (Kathleen Turner in her film debut). Ned is manipulated into killing Matty's much ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,628 members
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  • The Onion Field (1979)
    Starring: David Huffman,  Franklyn Seales,  Ted Danson
    Director: Harold Becker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Two low-lifes (James Woods and Franklyn Seales) kidnap a pair of plain-clothes policemen and kill one of them in a field. The other (John Savage) escapes and the killers are soon brought to trial. By making deals and blaming each other, the bad guys look as though they might get off. Meanwhile, the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 392 members
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  • Becker - Season 1 (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Ted Danson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All 22 episodes from season one of the American medical sitcom about a gruff doctor with a heart of gold. Doctor John Becker (Ted Danson) runs a busy clinic in the the heart of the Bronx, dealing with a steady string of sick and needy clients. But with an appalling bedside manner verging on disdain,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 155 members
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Ted Danson facts

5 most recent films

Big Miracle - 3.5 stars
Big Miracle - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Bored To Death - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
Bored To Death - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Bored To Death - Series 3 - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Series 7 - 4.5 stars
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Series 6 - 4.5 stars
Saving Private Ryan - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Damages - Series 1 - Complete - 4.0 stars
Damages - Series 1 - Complete - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Fronterz - 1.5 stars
Jerry and Tom - 2.5 stars
Spider-Man - The Dragon's Challenge - 3.0 stars
Knights of the South Bronx - 3.5 stars
Bored To Death - Series 3 - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Shelley Long - 31 times - show films
John Ratzenberger - 30 times - show films
Kelsey Grammer - 29 times - show films
George Wendt - 29 times - show films
Rhea Perlman - 29 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 21 times - show films
James Burrows - 18 times - show films
Greg Yaitanes - 8 times - show films
John David Coles - 8 times - show films
George Wendt - 5 times - show films