Todd Graff
Highest Rated: 89% The Abyss (1989)
Lowest Rated: 11% Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Birthday: Oct 22, 1959
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
The multi-talented Todd Graff began his career as a child performer, voicing the character of Choo Choo Charlie in TV commercials for Good 'N' Plenty candy. He went on to appear as a regular Short Circus on the award-winning PBS educational series "The Electric Company" from 1975-77 before attending college. As an adult, Graff first made his mark on stage coupled with Liz Callaway in the musical "Baby" (1983), for which he netted a Tony Award nomination. Onscreen, he has performed mid-size roles in several features, including "Five Corners" (1987), as Jodie Foster's handicapped boyfriend, "Dominick and Eugene" (1988), as a garbageman co-worker of Tom Hulce, and James Cameron's "The Abyss" (1989), as a paranoid crewman. He scripted "Used People" (1992), adapted from his play "The Grandma Plays" (1989), as well as co-produced and wrote the Geena Davis vehicle, "Angie" (1994), a film resembling his previous effort in its use of sweet-natured--though some critics have charged condescending--ethnic stereotypes and themes of familial strife. These works incorporated Graff's theater origins in their reliance on community-based plots and limited shooting locations.
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Movies
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32% | 65% | Joyful Noise |
Director, Screenwriter |
$30.9M | 2012 |
82% | 64% | Bandslam |
Director, Screenwriter |
$5.2M | 2009 |
65% | 68% | Camp |
Director, Writer |
$1.6M | 2003 |
22% | 46% | The Beautician and the Beast |
Screenwriter, Producer |
$11.5M | 1997 |
No Score Yet | 17% | Fly by Night | Naji (Character) | - | 1993 |
49% | 46% | The Vanishing | Screenwriter | $13.4M | 1993 |
44% | 39% | Used People |
Writer, Screenwriter |
$17.1M | 1992 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Framed | Pete (Character) | - | 1990 |
11% | 47% | Opportunity Knocks | Lou (Character) | $10.1M | 1990 |
44% | 47% | An Innocent Man | Robby, Con (Character) | $20.0M | 1989 |
89% | 83% | The Abyss | Alan "Hippy" Carnes (Character) | $54.3M | 1989 |
78% | 73% | Dominick and Eugene | Larry Higgins (Character) | $843.9K | 1988 |
78% | 54% | Five Corners | Jamie (Character) | $305.4K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Not Quite Paradise | Rothwell T. Schwartz (Character) | - | 1985 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 71% | The Nanny | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1997 |