Movies starring Frank Oz

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Friday, March 14th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams | Anthony Daniels | David Prowse | Peter Mayhew | Kenny Baker | Frank Oz | Alec Guinness | Jeremy Bulloch | John Hollis | Jack Purvis | Des Webb | Clive Revill
Directors: Irvin Kershner
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The story of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and the others didn’t end with the destruction of the Death Star - it continues in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. Imperial forces have since driven the Rebels to hide on the ice world Hoth. But even on such an icy, backwater world, they cannot escape the wicked Darth Vader’s eye for long, and he devastates the Rebel base in an assault with the horrible AT-AT walkers. Luke flees to Dagobah to begin Jedi Knight training with Yoda, while Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia and C-3PO run the blockade of Imperial Star Destroyers in the Millenium Falcon. The Imperials pursue them across the galaxy and eventually catch up with them at Bespin. Now Darth Vader plans to use them as bait to lure Luke Skywalker to him, and turns Han Solo over to Boba Fett as a prize to be delivered to crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Luke learns a terrible family secret after losing a swordfight with Vader. Will he - and the others - escape the Empire’s clutches?

Spies Like Us (1985)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Bob Hope | Chevy Chase | Dan Aykroyd | Steve Forrest | Donna Dixon | Bruce Davison | Bernie Casey | William Prince | Tom Hatten | Frank Oz | Charles McKeown | James Daughton | Jim Staahl | Vanessa Angel | Svetlana Plotnikova | Bjarne Thomsen
Directors: John Landis
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Two totally incompetent applicants, Emmett Fitzhume and Austin Millbarge, are chosen from a CIA recruitment program. They are parachuted into Pakistan and eventually end up in Afghanistan, chased by the Russians, where they learn they are being used as decoys to draw out the Sovet defenses. Two real spies are sent in. Their mission is to Hijack a soviet Missile launcher, launch the Soviet missile and test the new US orbital defence laser. The missile is fired and while heading for an American City, the laser system misses it’s target. The contingency plan for this scenario, as set out by the Pentagon Nuts who planned it from deep within a secret underground bunker, is to let the 3rd World War happen anyway.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Natalie Portman | Hayden Christensen | Ian McDiarmid | Samuel L. Jackson | Jimmy Smits | Frank Oz | Anthony Daniels | Christopher Lee | Keisha Castle-Hughes | Silas Carson | Jay Laga'aia | Bruce Spence | Wayne Pygram | Temuera Morrison
Directors: George Lucas
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A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrilling climax. The story here logically sets up the events of Episode IV, the original 1977 Star Wars movie in which Darth Vader goes to war against his own children, Luke and Leia.

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ewan McGregor | Natalie Portman | Jake Lloyd | Pernilla August | Frank Oz | Ian McDiarmid | Oliver Ford Davies | Hugh Quarshie | Ahmed Best | Anthony Daniels | Kenny Baker | Terence Stamp | Brian Blessed | Andrew Secombe
Directors: George Lucas
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This First Episode follows the young years of Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader). The friendship of Obi-wan Kenobi, Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn are also central aspects. And the beginning of the rise to power of Senator Palpatine to Emperor.

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Jonah Bobo | Josh Hutcherson | Dax Shepard | Kristen Stewart | Tim Robbins | Frank Oz | John Alexander | Derek Mears | Douglas Tait | Joe Bucaro III | Jeff Wolfe
Directors: Jon Favreau
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Danny and Walter are two brothers who barely get along even while driving their parents to distraction as their older sister tries to ignore them. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they find that the game has apparently flung them, their sister and their entire house into outer space. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game. However with almost every move, new dangers arise as the siblings find themselves learning to cooperate in ways they never expected as they realize what they mean to each other.

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Natalie Portman | Hayden Christensen | Christopher Lee | Samuel L. Jackson | Frank Oz | Ian McDiarmid | Pernilla August | Temuera Morrison | Jimmy Smits | Daniel Logan | Jack Thompson | Leeanna Walsman | Ahmed Best | Rose Byrne
Directors: George Lucas
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Ten years after the ‘Phantom Menace’ threatened the planet Naboo, Padmé Amidala is now a Senator representing her homeworld. A faction of political separatists, led by Count Dooku, attempts to assassinate her. There aren’t enough Jedi to defend the Republic against the threat, so Chancellor Palpatine enlists the aid of Jango Fett, who promises that his army of clones will handle the situation. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan Kenobi continues to train the young Jedi Anakin Skywalker, who fears that the Jedi code will forbid his growing romance with Amidala…

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Hamill | Harrison Ford | Carrie Fisher | Billy Dee Williams | Anthony Daniels | Peter Mayhew | Sebastian Shaw | Ian McDiarmid | Frank Oz | James Earl Jones | David Prowse | Alec Guinness | Kenny Baker | Michael Pennington | Kenneth Colley
Directors: Richard Marquand
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The Empire is more than halfway through construction of a new Death Star - almost twice as big, but more than twice as powerful. When completed, it will spell certain doom for Luke Skywalker and the Rebels. Han Solo is a prisoner of crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and Princess Leia soon finds herself in the gangster’s hands. Luke Skywalker, aided by C-3PO and R2-D2, makes his way into Jabba’s palace, hoping to secure his friends’ freedom. But the Hutt has no intention of doing so and tries to kill them all. After escaping from Jabba and the sands of Tatooine, they regroup with the Rebel fleet, which is massing for an attack against the new satellite battle station at Endor. Lando Calrissian is pressed into action to lead the Rebel fighter attack, while Han is put in charge of a group of soldiers to take out the shield generator protecting the Death Star. Luke, however, surrenders to Vader’s soldiers on Endor, and is taken in front of Vader’s boss - the Galactic Emperor - on the Death Star for final corruption to the Dark Side of the Force. The fleet of Imperial Star Destroyers ambushes the Rebels, cutting them off. Worse, the new Death Star begins turning its giant laser on the Rebel carriers. It appears that nothing will stop the Empire’s triumph - unless things start to change quickly…

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: John Goodman | Billy Crystal | Mary Gibbs | Steve Buscemi | James Coburn | Jennifer Tilly | Bob Peterson | John Ratzenberger | Frank Oz | Dan Gerson | Steve Susskind | Bonnie Hunt | Jeff Pidgeon | Samuel Lord Black | Jack Angel
Directors: Peter Docter | David Silverman | Lee Unkrich
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James P. Sullivan (AKA “Sulley”) and Mike Wazowski pick up their paychecks at Monsters Inc., the utility company that generates energy from the goose bumps of children. Sulley, the No. 1 scream-generator at the plant accidentally lets in a little girl into the monster world. Since monsters are actually terrified of children it’s a major cause for alarm and a major headache for Sulley and Mike.