Al Franken
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Alan Stuart Franken is an American comedian, politician, media personality, and author who served as a United States senator from Minnesota from 2009 to 2018. He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a staff writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Known for
Credits
Trading Places (1983)
as Baggage Handler #1
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
as TV Commentator
Lorne (2026)
as Self
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
as Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue (2024)
as Gramps (voice)
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert (2025)
as Self
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
as Self
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025)
as Self - SNL Writer / Self - Cast Member / Self - Producer 1975 - 1995
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
as Self
The Words That Built America (2017)
as Self - Reader: The Constitution
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary (1989)
as Self
Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable (2004)
as Self
Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
as Stuart Smalley
Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh (2019)
as Self
Harvard Man (2001)
as Al Franken
Steve Martin's Best Show Ever (1981)
Actor
Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel (1988)
as The Awesome Pair
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation (2007)
as Self
One More Saturday Night (1986)
as Paul Flum
Tunnel Vision (1976)
as Al
The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase (2002)
as Self - Roaster
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found (2005)
as Self
Downey Wrote That (2025)
as Self
Hot Grease (2017)
as Self
Tab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter (1985)
Actor
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary (2008)
as Self
Long Strange Trip (2017)
as Self
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater (2007)
as Self
Wellstone! (2004)
as Self
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006)
as Self
Earth to America (2005)
as Self
Lord, Save Us from Your Followers (2008)
as Self
Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead (1981)
as Self - Host
Left of the Dial (2005)
as Self
The Definite Maybe (1997)
as Vagabond
Hot Coffee (2011)
as Self
Franken and Davis at Stockton State (1983)
as Himself
Inside the Russian Info War Machine (2018)
as Self