Shelley Long
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Northwestern University drama student Shelley Long began picking up work in Chicago TV commercials in the mid-1970s. She went on to host the WMAQ-TV "magazine" program Sorting it Out, and honed her comic timing with the Second City troupe. While her actual film debut was in 1980's A Small Circle of Friends, Long prefers to list the 1981 spoof Caveman as her first film. After a handful of TV guest appearances (notably as one of Alan Alda's lady friends on MASH) and an attention-grabbing performance as a freewheeling hooker in Night Shift (1982), Long was cast as the pretentious, garrulous waitress Diane Chambers on the weekly sitcom Cheers. She won an Emmy for this role, but all was not roses on the Cheers set. According to most sources, Diane's overbearing personality spilled over into Long's off-camera behavior; when she left the series in 1987, many of the cast members, especially star Ted Danson, breathed a rather loud and public sigh of relief. Shelley Long's post-Cheers efforts to establish herself as a movie star have thus far fallen short of expectations; her most successful film assignment to date has been as retro housewife Carol Brady in 1995's The Brady Bunch: The Movie. She reprised the role of Carol in the 1996 sequel A Very Brady Sequel. She returned to the part of Diane Chambers with a guest appearance on Frasier in 1996, and she would play Carol Brady again in A Very Brady Sequel that same year. At the beginning of the next decade she had a memorable turn in Robert Altman's Dr. T & the Women, and she would appear again on Frasier in the part that made her famous. There was a third Brady Bunch movie in 2002. She appeared in light fare such as Honeymoon with Mom and A Holiday Engagement.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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80% | Different Flowers |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Christmas in the Heartland |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Zombie Hamlet |
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— | 2013 |
31% | Best Man Down |
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$2.3k | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The Wedding Chapel |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Merry In-Laws |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Strawberry Summer |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Dog Who Saved the Holidays |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Holiday Engagement (A Holiday Engagement) |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Ice Dreams |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | A Couple of White Chicks at the Hairdresser |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Santa Trap |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Honeymoon with Mom |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Last Guy on Earth |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Santa Trap |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Frozen Assets |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Brady Bunch in the White House (The Brady Bunch 3) |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Promise of Love |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Trust Me |
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— | 2001 |
57% | Dr. T and the Women |
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$12.2M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Jingle Bells |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Adventures of Ragtime |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Adventures of Ragtime |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | A Different Kind of Christmas |
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— | 1996 |
53% | A Very Brady Sequel |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Susie Q |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Freaky Friday |
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— | 1995 |
62% | The Brady Bunch Movie |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Welcome to Paradise |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Baa Baa Black Sheep |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Cheers: Last Call! |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Sex, Shock and Censorship |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Fatal Memories |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Frozen Assets |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Don't Tell Her It's Me |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase |
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— | 1990 |
25% | Troop Beverly Hills |
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— | 1989 |
11% | Hello Again |
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— | 1987 |
50% | Outrageous Fortune |
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— | 1987 |
50% | The Money Pit |
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— | 1986 |
57% | Irreconcilable Differences |
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— | 1984 |
18% | Losin' It |
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— | 1983 |
92% | Night Shift |
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— | 1982 |
28% | Caveman |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | A Small Circle of Friends |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Christmas Classics |
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TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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85% |
Modern Family
2009-2020
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100% |
Switched at Birth
2011-2017
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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86% |
Boston Legal
2004-2008
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No Score Yet |
Yes, Dear
2000-2006
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45% |
Complete Savages
2004-2005
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96% |
Joan of Arcadia
2003-2005
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58% |
8 Simple Rules
2002-2005
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No Score Yet |
Strong Medicine
2000-2006
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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62% |
Beggars and Choosers
1999-2001
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33% |
Boston Common
1996-1997
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No Score Yet |
Murphy Brown
1988-2019
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86% |
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993-1997
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No Score Yet |
Cheers
1982-1993
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No Score Yet |
M*A*S*H
1972-1983
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No Score Yet |
Trapper John, M.D.
1979-1986
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No Score Yet |
Good Advice
1993-1994
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20% |
Kelly Kelly
1998
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No Score Yet |
Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
1992-1993
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Quotes from Shelley Long's Characters
Lucy Van Patten Brodsky: | That bimbo stole my husband! They drank their lover's wine in glasses I stood in line to buy! |
Anna Crowley: | You are so much less attractive when I'm sober. |
Walter Fielding: | Thank goodness it's not that often. |