Billy Crystal
Acting
Biography
William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, filmmaker, and comedian. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom “Soap” and became a Hollywood film star during the 1990s, appearing in the critical and box office successes When “Harry Met Sally...” and “City Slickers.” He is also known for his role as Mike in the “Monsters Inc.” franchise, and roles in “The Princess Bride,” “Analyze This,” and “Throw Momma From the Train.” He has hosted the Academy Awards eight times.
As actor 188
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Daily Show
1996
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Hollywood Squares
1998
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Friends
1994
Saturday Night Live
1975
Modern Family
2009
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
Frasier
1993
The View
1997
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The Love Boat
1977
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Film '72
1971
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
Monsters, Inc.
2001
Never Have I Ever
2020
Cars
2006
The Bernie Mac Show
2001
Web Therapy
2008
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Monsters at Work
2021
All in the Family
1971
Monsters University
2013
The Jay Leno Show
2009
The Oscars
1953
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
The Princess Bride
1987
The Critic
1994
Soap
1977
Jay Leno's Garage
2015
Muppets Tonight
1996
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992
Fridays
1980
Before
2024
When Harry Met Sally...
1989
Analyze This
1999
Primetime Glick
2001
Tooth Fairy
2010
Web Therapy
2011
Baseball
1994
Liberty's Kids
2002
Analyze That
2002
Donny & Marie
1976
Inside Comedy
2012
Throw Momma from the Train
1987
City Slickers
1991
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
Darkroom
1981
The Comedians
2015
Deconstructing Harry
1997
Party Central
2014
This Is Spinal Tap
1984
I'm Still Here
2010
Sicko
2007
Flitterabend
1988
America's Sweethearts
2001
Here Today
2021
Running Scared
1986
Mike's New Car
2002
The Pixar Story
2007
Fathers' Day
1997
Shut Up and Dribble
2018
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
American Movie
1999
The Comedian
2016
The Story of Late Night
2021
Hamlet
1996
9/11: United We Stand -- 25 Years Later
2026
Andre the Giant
2018
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
2000
Parental Guidance
2012
Forget Paris
1995
FireAid Benefit Concert
2025
Studio 42 with Bob Costas
2009
The Concert for New York City
2001
Get Bruce!
1999
Standing Up, Falling Down
2020
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
2009
Night of 100 Stars II
1985
Inside the Golden Statue
1998
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018
Animalympics
1980
Mr. Saturday Night
1992
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
A Century of Cinema
1994
The Love We Make
2011
My Giant
1998
King Kong: Monster and Myth
2024
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021
Small Apartments
2012
In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover
2020
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
1979
Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
1980
The Journey
2001
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011
Billy Connolly: A BAFTA Tribute
2002
Untogether
2019
Monsters Funday Football
2025
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
Memories of Me
1988
Feeding America Comedy Festival
2020
Roll Up Your Sleeves
2021
The Improv: 50 Years Behind the Brick Wall
2013
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
Comic Relief
1986
Voices That Care
1991
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
The Hollywood Rabbi
2026
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
2005
How Harry Met Sally…
2001
Comic Relief 2006
2006
Saturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
Rabbit Test
1978
Catch A Rising Star: 10th Anniversary Special
1982
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
Kareem: Minority of One
2015
Back on the Record with Bob Costas
2021
Still Laugh-In: The Stars Celebrate
2019
Costas Now
2005
Tony Bennett: An American Classic
2006
Eat Drink Laugh: The Story of The Comic Strip
2014
Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell
1975
Caesar's Writers
1996
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020
Comic Relief '90
1990
Which Witch?
Kings of Comedy USA
2006
Comic Relief: The Greatest... and the Latest
2008
Comic Relief VII
1995
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy
1998
When It Was a Game 2
1992
Christmas in Hollywood
2003
When It Was a Game 3
2000
Kraft Salutes the George Burns 90th Birthday Special
1986
Robin Williams: Laugh Until You Cry
2022
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
2001
Cutting Edge Comedians of the '60s & '70s
2007
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
2011
Comic Relief III
1989
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star
2020
SST: Death Flight
1978
The T.V. Show
1979
Human Feelings
1978
Inside the Actors Studio
1994
Pixar 25 Magic Moments
2011
Muhammad Ali - Through The Eyes Of The World
2001
First Pitch
2015
Branford Marsalis: Steep
1991
Mr. Saturday Night
2022
Doug Henning's World of Magic
1975
Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales
1999
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
2020
It Ain't Over
2023
In Search of Dr. Seuss
1994
Scenes from a Friendship
2019
Stand Tall
1997
Comic Relief VI
1994
The Best of Comic Relief
1986
Horton Hatches the Egg
1992
Mantle
2005
Doug Henning's World of Magic
1982
Grand Slam!
1988
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
2025
Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
2017
Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory
1998
City Slickers In Westworld
2017
Billy Crystal: A Comic's Line
1984
Billy Crystal: Don't Get Me Started
1986
An All-Star Toast to the Improv
1988
Richard Lewis: I'm In Pain
1985
Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays
2014
The Warner Bros. Story: 75 Years of Laughter
1998
Billy Crystal: Midnight Train to Moscow
1989
The Grammys
1959
On the crew 26
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Oscars
1953
Before
2024
Analyze This
1999
Analyze That
2002
City Slickers
1991
My Best Friend's Girl
2008
The Comedians
2015
America's Sweethearts
2001
Here Today
2021
Parental Guidance
2012
Forget Paris
1995
Standing Up, Falling Down
2020
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994
Mr. Saturday Night
1992
My Giant
1998
Sessions
1991
61*
2001
Memories of Me
1988
Which Witch?
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
2011
The T.V. Show
1979
Mr. Saturday Night
2022
Billy Crystal: A Comic's Line
1984
Billy Crystal: Don't Get Me Started
1986
Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays
2014