
Acting
Born May 21, 1951 · New York City, New York, USA
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.

Downey Wrote That
2025

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025

Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
2024

Chris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
2019

Inside the Russian Info War Machine
2018

Hot Grease
2017

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017

The Words That Built America
2017

Long Strange Trip
2017

Hot Coffee
2011

Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008

Lord, Save Us from Your Followers
2008

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2007

Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007

Al Franken: God Spoke
2006

Earth to America
2005

Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
2005

Left of the Dial
2005

Wellstone!
2004

Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
2004

The Manchurian Candidate
2004

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
2004

The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase
2002

Harvard Man
2001

Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999

The Definite Maybe
1997

Stuart Saves His Family
1995

When a Man Loves a Woman
1994

Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989

Superman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988

One More Saturday Night
1986

Tab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter
1985
Franken and Davis at Stockton State
1983

Trading Places
1983

Steve Martin's Best Show Ever
1981

Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead
1981

Tunnel Vision
1976