Personal Info
Birth date
1953-03-24 (72 Years)
Day of death
2022-01-21
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Also known as
Louie Perry Anderson
루이 앤더슨
Louis Anderson
Louie Anderson
Biography
Louie Anderson (March 24, 1953 - January 21, 2022) was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA as Louie Perry Anderson. He was an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and game show host, known for Life with Louie (1995), Life with Louie: A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman (1994) and Coming to America (1988).
Filmography
Young Sheldon
8.044
Overview:
The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
6.78
Overview:
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Scottish American comedian Craig Ferguson, who is the third regular host of the Late Late Show franchise. It follows Late Show with David Letterman in the CBS late-night lineup, airing weekdays in the US at 12:37 a.m. It is taped in front of a live studio audience from Monday to Friday at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, directly above the Bob Barker Studio. It is produced by David Letterman's production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated and CBS Television Studios. Since becoming host on January 3, 2005, after Craig Kilborn and Tom Snyder, Ferguson has achieved the highest ratings since the show's inception in 1995. While the majority of the episodes focus on comedy, Ferguson has also addressed difficult subject matter, such as the deaths of his parents, and undertaken serious interviews, such as one with Desmond Tutu, which earned the show a 2009 Peabody Award.The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.459
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Scrubs
8.013
Overview:
In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D." Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.@midnight with Chris Hardwick
5.2
Overview:
Chris Hardwick will lead three celebrity contestants down the ultimate internet wormhole. Culling from the darkest recesses of social media, they will compete to determine who has the funniest take on the day's pop culture.Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.191
Overview:
Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.Real Time with Bill Maher
6.029
Overview:
Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors, comedians, musicians and the like to discuss what's going on in the world.V.I.P.
5.3
Overview:
While attending a Hollywood premiere with a famous action star, a crazed fan pulls a gun—but her movie hunk turns into a coward, and it's Vallery who becomes the hero. Suddenly, she's thrown into a world of action and danger as owner of a Hollywood protection agency, Vallery Irons Protection (V.I.P.), taking risks to protect others at a price few are willing to pay.Grace Under Fire
5.557
Overview:
Grace Kelly is a tough woman with kids to raise. A recently divorced recovering alcoholic, Grace struggles with the pressures of being a single mother supporting three children. Grace doesn't always handle situations with, well, grace, but she does get results.Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.972
Overview:
Some of this year's most talked about talent open up about the challenges and triumphs of creating critically acclaimed series and performances.Remington Steele
7.093
Overview:
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.Lights Out with David Spade
5.6
Overview:
Specializing in celebrities, entertainment and all things apolitical, comedy legend David Spade and a panel of his comedian friends are at the roundtable and in the field to help break down the biggest headlines of the day.Joey
6.272
Overview:
The charming and still-single Joey has struck out on his own and moved to Hollywood, hoping to truly make it as an actor. After reuniting with his high-strung sister Gina, Joey moves in with Michael, his 20-year-old genius nephew, who unbelievably is literally a rocket scientist. However, what Joey lacks in book smarts he makes up for with people smarts – making him the best new friend his nephew could ask for.Chicago Hope
7.243
Overview:
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.Touched by an Angel
7.2
Overview:
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.Nash Bridges
6.624
Overview:
Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.Tom Goes to the Mayor
6.8
Overview:
Tom Goes to the Mayor is an American animated television series created by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim for Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. It premiered on November 14, 2004 and ended on September 25, 2006, with a total of thirty episodes.Life with Louie
6.8
Overview:
The 8-year-old Louie is doing his best to grow up and cope with a large family, a doting mother, a pesky little brother, and a by-the-book, military veteran dad. Add to that a slew of holiday family squabbles, a flood, an old Rambler and a huge goldfish, and you have the background for Life with Louie. Each episode is a portrait of humor and warmth drawn from Louie Anderson's real-life experience as a child in the Midwest.Penn & Teller: Fool Us
7.147
Overview:
Illusionists Penn & Teller throw down the gauntlet to aspiring magicians to perform their most mystifying trick - and fool Penn and Teller. Penn & Teller have no prior knowledge of either the performers or the planned trick. They sit in the audience just like everyone else, watching every move the guest magicians make. If any illusionist fools the professionals, they win a five star trip to Las Vegas to perform as the opening act in Penn & Teller's world famous show at the Rio Hotel & Casino.Baskets
6.943
Overview:
Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing with his siblings for his mother's approval and affection.The Movies That Made Us
7.2
Overview:
These blockbusters brought us together and gave us the time of our lives. Meet the actors, directors and industry insiders who made them happen.Ally McBeal
6.6
Overview:
Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!Gotham Comedy Live
5.5
Overview:
Gotham Comedy Club, a popular comedy venue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, is the setting of an hourlong series that is shot in front of an audience at the club. Each episode features routines by several comics -- a list that has included such names as David Alan Grier, Gilbert Gottfried and Artie Lange -- in what the network says is an unedited and uncensored format. In addition to the big names of the field who take the Gotham stage, the show also features up-and-comers who want to make a name for themselves in the stand-up comedy business.Search Party
6.756
Overview:
A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.Family Feud
7.744
Overview:
Two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey question posed to 100 people.Hollywood Squares
7.333
Overview:
On September 14, 1998, a Hollywood Squares revival debuted with Tom Bergeron as its host. In addition to her production duties, Whoopi Goldberg served as the permanent center square, with series head writer Bruce Vilanch, Gilbert Gottfried, Martin Mull, and Caroline Rhea as regular panelists and Brad Garrett, Bobcat Goldthwait, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wallace, Kathy Griffin and various others as semi-regular panelists. Shadoe Stevens returned to announce, although he was not given a square on the panel as he had been when John Davidson was host.Celebrity Ghost Stories
7.3
Overview:
Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From encounters with ghosts and angry spirits to haunted homes, unexplainable spells and magic, these descriptive, first person narratives from our favorite stars delivers a brand new way of experiencing the thrills and chills of the addictive world of the paranormal.Acting
2021Coming 2 America as Maurice
2020The Comedy Store (5 Episodes) as Self
2020Feeding America Comedy Festival as Self
2020Call Your Mother as Unknown
2019The Movies That Made Us (1 Episode) as Self
2019Lights Out with David Spade (1 Episode) as Self - Panelist
2018Louie Anderson: Big Underwear as Himself
2017Cook-Off! as Mayor Doug Halverson
2017No Activity (1 Episode) as (voice)
2017Young Sheldon (1 Episode) as Ralph
2017Sandy Wexler as Testimonial
2017Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special as Self
2016Search Party (5 Episodes) as Bob
2016Baskets (40 Episodes) as Christine Baskets
2015Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (1 Episode) as Self
2015Celebrity Family Feud (1 Episode) as Self
2014Richard Pryor: Icon as Himself
2013@midnight with Chris Hardwick (1 Episode) as Self
2012Gotham Comedy Live (1 Episode) as Self - Host
2012Louie Anderson: Big Baby Boomer as Himself
2011Penn & Teller: Fool Us (1 Episode) as Himself
2010Conan (2 Episodes) as Self
2009Celebrity Ghost Stories (1 Episode) as Self
2008My Tale of Two Cities as Self
2007Heckler as Self
2006The Chuck Barris Story: My Life On The Edge as Self
2005The Reichen Show (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
2005Hari ng Sablay as Krizzy
2005Rockin' The Corps as Host
2005Back By Midnight as Game Show Host
2005The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2, 1 Episode) as Self, Geoff Peterson (voice) / Self
2004Tom Goes to the Mayor (1 Episode) as Mining Team of Louie Andersons (voice)
2004Joey (1 Episode) as Louie Anderson
2003Citizen Tony as Unknown
2003Real Time with Bill Maher (1 Episode) as Self
2002Half & Half (1 Episode) as Louie
2002Do It for Uncle Manny as Tow Truck Driver
2001Scrubs (1 Episode) as Louie Anderson
2001Laughing Out Loud: America's Funniest Comedians as Self (archive footage)
1999Family Feud (13 Episodes) as Self - Host
1998V.I.P. (1 Episode) as Homeless Person
1998Hollywood Squares (7 Episodes) as Self - Panelist
1997Ally McBeal (1 Episode) as Therapist
1997Rodney Dangerfield's 75th Birthday Toast as Self
1996For Hope as Date #3 (uncredited)
1996E! True Hollywood Story (1 Episode) as Unknown
1996Nash Bridges (1 Episode) as Richard Reynolds
1996Mr. Wrong as Self
1996The Louie Show (6 Episodes) as Louie Lundgren
1994Life with Louie (39 Episodes) as Little Louie / Dad (voice)
1994Life with Louie: A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman as Himself / Andy Anderson (Dad) / Little Louie (voice)
1994Touched by an Angel (1 Episode) as Uncle Dudley
1994Chicago Hope (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993Grace Under Fire (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1 Episode) as Self - Guest
1993Louie Anderson: Louie in St. Louie as Unknown
1992Bebe's Kids as Security Guard #1 (voice)
1990Louie Anderson: Comedy On Canvas as Himself
1989Louie Anderson: Mom! Louie's Looking at Me Again! as Unknown
1989The Jim Henson Hour (1 Episode) as Himself
1988Louie Anderson: The Louie Anderson Show as himself
1988Coming to America as Maurice
1988The Wrong Guys as Louie
1987Louie Anderson: Live at the Guthrie as himself
1986Ratboy as Omer Morrison
1986Ferris Bueller's Day Off as Flower Deliveryman
1986Quicksilver as Tiny (as Louis Anderson)
1985Rodney Dangerfield Hosts the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special as himself
1984Cloak & Dagger as Taxi Driver #2
1982Remington Steele (1 Episode) as Bingham 'Bing' Perret
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (3 Episodes) as Self
Production
2018Louie Anderson: Big Underwear ... Producer
Writing
2018Louie Anderson: Big Underwear ... Writer
1993Louie Anderson: Louie in St. Louie ... Writer
1990Louie Anderson: Comedy On Canvas ... Writer
1989Comic Relief III ... Writer