150 Ed Begley Jr. Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Documentary filmmaker Marti DeBergi accompanies the English heavy metal band Spinal Tap, as they begin their big US tour to boost their new album. However, in the tour, problems are numerous - it appears that the band’s popularity is waning, their events get cancelled, the album cover raises objection, there is a stage prop malfunction and the girlfriend of one of the band members arrives.

Zeke, Jerry and Smokey are three drinking buddies, who work at a car plant. One day, they come up with an idea to rob the local union bureau safe. Although they find only six hundred dollars, they also find some material which they decide to use to blackmail the union.

The In-Laws is a crime comedy adventure film which tells the story of Sheldon and Vince, two fathers who develop a friendship on the eve of their children’s marriage. Their friendship soon leads them to a series of misadventures, starting from New York to Central America.

Best in Show is presented as a documentary film, which captures the happenings around the fictitious Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show in Philadelphia, and focuses on the excitement and tension displayed by the participants, their owners and their handlers not only during the show, but also before and after the event.  

Zack Mayo, a loner who grew up without much of a family, joins Navy to become naval aviator. The strict regime of Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley at the Officer Candidate School makes it difficult for Zack to take an easy route through the drill. But Foley’s training teaches him importance of relating with others; while girlfriend Paula enriches his life with romance.

On New Year’s Eve, the Saturn Theater is preparing for its big New Year’s Eve concert under the direction of Max Wolfe. However, when Colin Beverley comes to know about this, he tries to sabotage the concert.

You’re Not You is a drama film which revolves around a classical pianist Kate Parker, who gets diagnosed with ALS. As she needs a caregiver, a brash college girl named Bec, who likes partying applies for the job, despite her lack of experience.  Despite all her flaws, Kate decides to keep Bec as her caregiver  and soon a bond develops between the two.  

Lucky is a comedy drama film which tells the story of Lucky, a 90 year old atheist, who lives alone in an isolated house in the small desert town of Piru, California. Upon coming to terms with his own mortality, he decides to search for ever-elusive enlightenment.

Jake Van Dorn, a businessman, allows his teen daughter goes on a church trip to California, but she never returns. He eventually decides to hire an investigator named Andy Mast to locate her. Mast is stunned when he finds a pornographic film where she has recently appeared in. With hopes of finding his daughter, Jake goes to California and ventures into the world of pornography, pretending to be an adult film producer.

This musical comedy film revolves around three folk bands who reunite for a TV performance for the first time in decades.  

Streets of Fire is a romantic drama action thriller film which tells the story of a mercenary, who is hired to rescue his former lover, when the latter gets kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.   

Battlestar Galactica is an action adventure science fiction film which takes us to a time where mankind has several colonies across the universe. However, after all twelve colonies are destroyed, a fleet searches for planet Earth, hoping to find chances of survival.

Whatever Works tells the story of a middle-aged, misanthropic divorcee from New York, who survives a suicide attempt. Some time later, he surprisingly enters into a strange relationship with a much younger, unsophisticated girl. 

Set in a small town, the film binds together several stories about different characters, united by their use of CB radio. In the center is a young boy, who does not know that his girlfriend likes to strike up erotic conversations over the radio. There is also the bigamist truck driver, whose wives meet for the first time after he has an accident near the town. 

Dale Denton, a court-process clerk, witnesses a murder committed by a cop and a drug lord. He escapes, but in panic, dumps his rare marijuana- Pineapple Express – behind. He and his marijuana dealer now know that the rare strain of the weed can be used to reach them. They run for their life with the bad guys close behind them.

The Accidental Tourist is a romantic drama film which tells the story of a travel writer named Macon Leary, whose son passes away, which causes his marriage to crumble. Unable to deal with his loss, he becomes emotionally distant, but his life changes when he meets a quirky woman named Muriel.  

Goin’ South is a western romantic comedy film which takes us to a town in Texas, shortly after the Civil War. Henry Moon is an outlaw who is captured while trying to make his escape to Mexico. Due to lack of men after the war, the town has a special law that if a single woman offers to marry a condemned man, he can walk free. Henry is in luck since a woman named Julia offers to marry him, but it soon turns out that her main purpose is to have someone to search for gold in her property.

 Committed to his job, a workaholic hardware store owner has little bonding with his family. Although his frugal ways has saved them from poverty during the Depression, they are all dissatisfied.  Then one day, an angel appears before him to tell him that his time is up. The revelation sets him thinking and he decides to sell his store.  

Irena Gallier has a dark family secret in this violent and sensual horror tale. She falls for Oliver Yates, a zoologist in New Orleans. The dangerous and dark curse of the Gallier clan reappears when she reconnects with Paul, her estranged brother and that's when the malediction raises its feline head.

Auto Focus is a biographical crime drama film which revolves around the story of a TV actor Bob Crane. The film shows how he develops a friendship with John Carpenter, an electronics expert, after his show gets cancelled, and how he falls into the seamy world of sex and strip clubs.

Billy Massey and Chuck Jarvis were childhood friends until a woman came in between them. Now they stand at the opposite end of the law with Billy turning into a bank robber and Chuck a lawman. However, it does not stop them from joining forces in a final showdown against a common enemy. 

In his last year of college, Andy Schmidt wins his fellow student Mary’s heart and takes her to New York, to pursue an acting career. However, when he is unable to get roles, he tries his luck in wrestling.  

The cast and crew of an independent film crew are hopeful about winning the Oscar, after their performance garners a lot of buzz.  

Rich and old Uncle Joe is surrounded by relatives who are waiting for him to die and leave his fortune to them. Things soon take a turn when their uncle decides to hire a new beautiful nurse named Molly.

While airing a science fiction classic named ‘Amazon Women on the Moon’, a TV station starts experiencing problems.  

All Darling has never had a successful relationship and has been fired from her job. She comes across an article that claims women who have had more than twenty lovers will have difficulty finding a husband. A desperate Ally decides to track down her exes to find out the one that got away.  

A crooked hospital administrator resorts to lies and cheating to loot as much money from the patients as possible. His assistant Alice can no longer endure his scams and therefore she makes a plan to send him to prison. 

Renaissance Man is a comedy drama film which tells the story of a failed advertisement executive who is offered a job by the US Army to teach a group of underachieving recruits, so that they can pass basic training.

Jon, a police officer, teams up with an undercover FBI agent, to investigate a million dollar heist. They also intend to expose all the corrupt officers in their own department.

Sunny Ann Davis is a young woman working as a cocktail waitress who lives a lousy life in Washington. Her life takes a turn when due to a series of comic misadventures, she becomes famous overnight, which leads her to becoming a protocol official for the State Department.

Based on William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream,' the movie revolves around Berke Landers, a high school student who is going through a streak of hard luck. Surviving in a world where his ex-girlfriend is making his life bitter by dating a new hot guy in school, Berke decides to get her back. But the road to true love is never easy. Is it?

Mascots is a mockumentary film which shows us a competition between several sports mascots for the Gold Fluffy Award of the World Mascot Association Championship.      

Charlie McCready does not approve of his daughter Wendy’s friends, especially her boyfriend Bart and to keep her away from him he tricks her into believing that she has won a full scholarship to his alma mater, Huntington College. On discovering the truth, she decides to get even and becomes engaged to a hippie artist named Klutch.

Ruth Patchett is a housewife and a mother, who can’t seem to make her husband happy, despite all her efforts. However, her husband eventually starts an affair with a  novelist named Mary Fisher. Although Patchett tries to ignore it, she is devastated when her husband eventually leaves her. She vows revenge and to destroy everything he holds dear. ‘

Record City is a comedy film which revolves around few employees working at a record store, and the unusual situations that they encounter on and off their job.

A superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman, the movie focuses on Batman trying to stop the villainous Two-Face and the Riddler from implementing their malicious scheme of stealing confidential information that could threaten Gotham city’s freedom. 

The remake of the 1984 classic Ghostbusters, follows paranormal researchers Abigail Yates, Erin Gilbert, Jilian Holtzman, and Patty Tolan. They take up the mantle of the Ghostbusters to stop occultist Rowan North who is summoning an army of deadly ghosts to bring an end to the world. 

Jack and Gil are tabloid reporters who are given two choices: Either find new jobs or find the Frankenstein monster who is reported to be living in Transylvania. Eventually, they decide to go to Transylvania in order to dig up their big story, but they face a nymphomaniac vampiress, an eccentric doctor, werewolves as well as several other obstacles before they can uncover the mystery.   

Maggie is a journalist who decides to expose her ex-boyfriend’s involvement with the illegal arms business. While she in traveling on an inaugural flight, he tries to bring down the plane.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a western romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of Sissy Hankshaw, a woman who has been hitchhiking through the US from a young age. Her life takes a turn when she becomes an advertising model, shortly after which her agent sends her to his ranch in California, for shooting a commercial. There, she develops a friendship with Bonanza, one of the cowgirls.

During Christmas time, a selfish multi-millionaire hits his head in an accident, which makes him lose his memory. Things get hilarious when a fiendish elf convinces him that he is Santa Claus.

Dr Clare Winslow is a seismologist who has information about a big earthquake that is going to strike Southern California. Although she knows the exact location and time when this long-awaited earthquake is going to strike, things get complicated when she is not allowed to release this information to the public.

Bruce Wayne is a millionaire businessman who lives in Gotham City, but people are unaware that at night, he assumes the role of a crime-fighting vigilante superhero: the caped crusader Batman. With the assistance of  Robin and Barbara Gordon, daughter of Commissioner Gordon, he works to protect Gotham City from various criminals and lunatics such as The Joker and Killer Croc. 

A sea turtle travels the world over a period of fifty years. He sees the repercussions of global warming and other environmental threats which have started taking their toll on Earth.  

This adventure fantasy comedy film revolves around a timid young boy who enters a library in order to escape a storm. He soon finds himself transformed into an animated illustration and must face several obstacles if he wishes to return to real-life.