Robert Picardo Filmography |
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 Dead Heat (1988) - Starring as Lieutenant Herzog |
| Roger Mortis (Treat Williams) and Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) are cops that are chasing after dead crooks, literally. It seems someone has learned how to bring back the dead and is sending them on crime sprees. Now these indestructable goons are in the way of officers Mortis and Bigelow. To even things up, when Mortis is killed in the line of duty, Bigelow places Mortis's body in the machine and revives him. Bigelow now has 12 hours before his body starts to decompose in which to solve his own murder. |
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| 976-EVIL (1989) - Starring as Mark Dark |
Hoax is a a picked-on nerd who lives with his crazy religious mother. One day Hoax calls the 976-number and the demonic voice at the other end starts giving him evil advice. He ends up killing his brother's girlfriend, slashing the face of a thug with his new talons, and murdering several of his enemies. Only Palmer the journalist and a sexy schoolmarm can stop Hoax before he sends the whole neighborhood straight to Hell.
- Mark Dark runs the 976 telephone operation. He constantly blows his nose on an extra large handkerchief, squirts medication up his nose, gargles and spits into a chrome bedpan and talks with a hoarse voice. |
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| The 'burbs (1989) - Starring as Joe the Garbageman |
Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) and Carol (Carrie Fisher) are a couple so clean that they squeak. When the new neighbors begin showing bizarre behavior, Hanks and his fellow suburbanites endure all sorts of slapstick misadventures in the vain hope of getting "the goods" on the newcomers.
- Joe the Garbageman is a small part and he is seen when Ray and his neighbor Art go through the garbage looking for a dead body. |
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| Newhart (1989) (TV) - Starring as Terry in "The Little Match Girl" |
In Newhart, Dick Loudon (Bob Newhart) and his wife Joanna purchase The Stratford Inn in Vermont. Dick writes how-to books and is the host of the TV show called Vermont Today. George Utley is the handyman and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid. The show also featured the three brothers Larry, Darryl, and his other brother Darryl.
In this epsiode, Michael (producer of Vermont Today) is visiting a sanitarium and Dick runs into illustrator Corinne Denby. He invites her to collaborate with him on his next book even though she has a habit of burning things.
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| Loverboy (1989) - Starring as Reed Palmer |
Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Senor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. "Loverboy's" reputation soon makes him very popular, but when Mom Bodek suddenly feels like some extra anchovies, things are looking grim for young Randy. |
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) - Starring as Forster |
After the incident in Gremlins, Billy and Kate have moved to New York where they work for media mogul Daniel Clamp. Gizmo's former owner died and he's been captured for genetics testing in the Clamp building. Gizmo gets wet and creates a new Gremlin species. While Gizmo and the surviving humans fight back, the Gremlins and their evil leader, the Brain Gremlin, are planning to escape when it gets dark.
- Forster is the building security chief and one of Billy's crueler bosses. He refuses to believe Billy's insistence that the building must be evacuated. He ends up getting married to a girl gremlin to them singing 'Here comes the bride'. |
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| The Wonder Years (1991-1998) (TV) - Starring as Coach Cutlip in 15 episodes |
The Wonder Years is about an adult Kevin Arnold reminiscing about his teenage years spent growing up during the 60's. He experiences, along with his best friend Paul and sometimes-girlfriend Winnie, the full range of trials and traumas that come in just about everyone's life.
- Coach Cutlip is Kevin's gym teacher who excels in bullying his students. He was one of the first teachers that viewers saw at RFK Junior High. His sex education lecture was a comic highlight of the first season.
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| China Beach (1988-1991) (TV) - Starring as Dr. Dick Richard in 6 episodes |
Showcased are the people of the 510th Evac Hospital at China Beach Vietnam, 1967. With cool but callous Army nurse Colleen McMurphy, naive Red Cross newcomer Cherry White, singer Laurette Barber, and cynical civilian worker/prostitute K.C. Koloski trying to deal with the horrors of war which are never far away from the base and dealing with their own individual lives.
- Dr. Dick Richard was the wise-cracking doctor and the resident grim reaper as he is often viewed. He also had a nervous breakdown on the show.
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| Motorama (1991) - Starring as Jerry the Policeman |
This black comedy tells the story of a ten-year-old boy who is determined to win the "Motorama" road game, a promotional effort by a major gas station that promises winners 500 million dollars. In order to win, one simply has to collect enough game cards from Chimera gas stations all over the country to spell out the word "Motorama." The boy steals a bright red classic Mustang and sets off across several fictional states. Along the way, he has assorted adventures, and many of them are not at all pleasant, but they are very strange. |
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| Matinee (1993) - Starring as Howard the Theater Manager |
Showman Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a horror movie called MANT in Atomo-Vision and Rumble-Rama, along with actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
- Howard is the bumbling theater manager who is beyond panic over the Missile Crisis. The character is introduced early in the film as Gene and his little brother leave the theater after seeing the "MANT" preview, Howard is attempting, to assemble a stand-up promotional display for the movie. Howard is worried and constantly listening to CONRAD, the emergency broadcast station, on his pocket transistor radio about the Missile Crisis and has his own bomb shelter. |
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| The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (1993) (TV) - Starring as Puel in "The Orb Scholar" |
Brisco County Jr. (Bruce Campbell) is the son of the famous marshal. He's a bounty hunter and lawyer, sworn to bring his fathers killer in. It was eventually revealed that tjhe criminal was from the future who had come back in time to get some Orbs.
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| Home Improvement (1993) (TV) - Starring as Joe Morton in "Blow Up" and "A Sew, Sew Evening" |
The show was about Tim "The Toolman" Taylor, his family, and of course his own TV show called Tool Time. Tim's TV show affects his homelife with hilarious consequences and of course Tim's male hormone driven attitude only makes things worse with his wife, Jill. Tim was known for his trademark grunting during conversations. He had a sidekick named Al, that always spouted the phrase "I don't thinks so Tim", and a neighbor named Wilson whose face was always covered below the eyes with whatever funny prop they could find.
In "Blow up", Tim accidentally blows up Jills old drivers licences photo into a huge poster at her library fundraising dinner.
In "A sew, sew evening", Tim finds his new neighbor annoying, Brad signs up for a home economics class to meet girls but finds out that all the other boys did the same thing.
- Joe Morton is Tim Taylor's new annoying neighbor who goes by the nickname "The Meat Man" because he's a butcher.
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