Al Franken
Biography
Alan Stuart Franken is an American comedian, politician, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a staff writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Known For
Top 37 Movies
Trading Places
1983
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994
The Words That Built America
2017
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
2024
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
Downey Wrote That
2025
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
2019
Earth to America
2005
Tunnel Vision
1976
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
Stuart Saves His Family
1995
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
Harvard Man
2001
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
2005
Hot Grease
2017
Hot Coffee
2011
Al Franken: God Spoke
2006
The Definite Maybe
1997
One More Saturday Night
1986
Wellstone!
2004
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
1981
Long Strange Trip
2017
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
2004
The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase
2002
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
2004
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008
Lord, Save Us from Your Followers
2008
Tab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter
1985
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2007
Left of the Dial
2005
Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead
1981
Inside the Russian Info War Machine
2018