Lear, Norman Filmography

• Stand Up Planet!
  2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Pablo
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Casting By
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption
  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Photographs of Your Junk (Will Be Publicized!)
  2011, role: producer
• The After Party: The Last Party 3
  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Ghetto Physics
  2010, role: actor
• Ray Charles America
  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• TV's 50 Funniest Catch Phrases
  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Juan Frances: Live
  2008, role: producer
• Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
  2007, role: producer
• The Brothers Warner
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself - Producer
• The American Flag: Two Centuries of Concord & Conflict
  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 4th Annual TV Land Awards
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Slam Planet
  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Evolution Will Be Televised
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 100 Most Memorable TV Moments
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Funniest Families of Television Comedy: A Museum of Television & Radio Special
  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Declaration of Independence
  2003, role: producer
• Inside TV Land: Taboo TV
  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• She Turned the World on with Her Smile: The Making of 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'
  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Inside TV Land: African Americans in Television
  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• TV's Most Censored Moments
  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Independence Day 2001
  2001, role: producer
• The 70s: The Decade That Changed Television
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Inside TV Land: The Dick Van Dyke Show
  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Way Past Cool
  2000, role: producer
• Maggie Bloom
  2000, role: producer
• Maggie Bloom
  2000, role: director
• League of Legends
  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• CBS: The First 50 Years
  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
  1998, role: miscellaneous crew
• The Thing in Bob's Garage
  1998, role: producer
• Channel Umptee-3
  1997, role: producer
• Corwin
  1996, role: actor , character name: Norman Lear
• New Passages
  1996, role: actor , character name: Himself
• 704 Hauser
  1994, role: producer
• The Powers That Be
  1992, role: producer
• Color Adjustment
  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Sunday Dinner
  1991, role: writer
• Fried Green Tomatoes
  1991, role: producer
• All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
  1991, role: producer
• All in the Family: 20th Anniversary Special
  1991, role: actor , character name: Host
• 50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration
  1989, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The Princess Bride
  1987, role: producer
• The 1st Annual American Comedy Awards
  1987, role: actor , character name: Himself
• One Voice
  1986, role: actor , character name: Himself - Audience Member

Famous quotes by Norman Lear:

"This isn't the best time for America laughing at ourselves. I think political satire thrives much more at a time when we're in a mood to laugh at ourselves. The degree of political correctness has just gotten terrible."

"There is excess violence, excess sensationalism, excess sex. We are looking at an excessive culture, and to see the excess only in Hollywood is a mistake that lifts a branch to block out the entire forest. The endemic problem is the excess that flows from the corporate need to deliver a profit statement this quarter larger than the last at the expense of every other value. You see that clearly in Hollywood."

"Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker was a genius at work, God's gift to the world. He is etched permanently in our memories."

"All in the Family,"

"It will belong to the American people,"

"It looks a little nutty. It's hard to believe people pay any attention to it."

"It's a happy coincidence that when we bought the Fantasy catalog we were also able to sign one of the most relevant and talented singer-songwriters of our generation. We're all enormous fans of his music. He's a big hero here."

"I know a lot of white people who have a lot more money than I do."

"Edith, stifle yourself!"

"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."

"You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings."

"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."

"Nobody doubts my partisanship, but a lot of the activity is nonpartisan."

"The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings."

"So we gravitated to shows and issues and causes that made people care."

"I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times."

"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."

"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."

"TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary."

"At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings."