Acting · New York City, New York, USA · Born May 21, 1951
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.
MovieLorne
2026
as Self
MovieDowney Wrote That
2025
as Self
TVThe Residence
2025
as Aaron Filkins
MovieLadies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
as Self - SNL Writer / Self - Cast Member / Self - Producer 1975 - 1995
TVSNL50: Beyond Saturday Night
2025
as Self
MovieGracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue
2024
as Gramps (voice)
MovieChris Farley: Anything for a Laugh
2019
as Self
TVBiography: Comedy Icons
2019
as Self
TVMinnesota Experience
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieInside the Russian Info War Machine
2018
as Self
MovieHot Grease
2017
as Self
TVI Love You, America
2017
as Self
MovieAn Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
2017
as Self
MovieThe Words That Built America
2017
as Self - Reader: The Constitution
MovieLong Strange Trip
2017
as Self
TVThe History of Comedy
2017
as Self
TVChelsea
2016
as Self
TVLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
MovieHot Coffee
2011
as Self
TVConan
2010
as Self
TVOverheard with Evan Smith
2010
as Self
MovieDean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
2008
as Self
MovieLord, Save Us from Your Followers
2008
as Self
MovieMr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2007
as Self
MovieSaturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
2007
as Self
MovieAl Franken: God Spoke
2006
as Self
MovieEarth to America
2005
as Self
TVThe Colbert Report
2005
as Self
MovieSaturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost and Found
2005
as Self
MovieLeft of the Dial
2005
as Self
MovieWellstone!
2004
as Self
TVTanner on Tanner
2004
as Self
MovieIndian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable
2004
as Self
MovieThe Manchurian Candidate
2004
as TV Commentator
MovieOutfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
2004
as Self (archive footage)
TVReal Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self - Guest
TVJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
MovieThe N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Chevy Chase
2002
as Self - Roaster
MovieHarvard Man
2001
as Al Franken
TVClerks
2000
as Mayor McCheese (voice)
MovieSaturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999
as Self
TVThe Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
1999
as Self
TVFrom the Earth to the Moon
1998
as Jerome Weisner
LateLine
1998
as Al Freundlich
TVThe View
1997
as Self
MovieThe Definite Maybe
1997
as Vagabond
TVThe Daily Show
1996
as Self
TVThe Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self
TV3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
as Frank Gansmiller
TVDr. Katz, Professional Therapist
1995
as Al (voice)
MovieStuart Saves His Family
1995
as Stuart Smalley
MovieWhen a Man Loves a Woman
1994
as Co-Pilot (uncredited)
TVLate Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
TVLate Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
TVPolitically Incorrect
1993
as Self
TVThe Larry Sanders Show
1992
as Al Franken
TVThe Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
as Self
MovieSaturday Night Live: 15th Anniversary
1989
as Self
MovieSuperman's 50th Anniversary: A Celebration of the Man of Steel
1988
as The Awesome Pair
MovieOne More Saturday Night
1986
as Paul Flum
MovieTab Lloyd: Investigative Reporter
1985
Franken and Davis at Stockton State
1983
as Himself
MovieTrading Places
1983
as Baggage Handler #1
MovieSteve Martin's Best Show Ever
1981
MovieGrateful Dead: Dead Ahead
1981
as Self - Host
MovieTunnel Vision
1976
as Al
TVSaturday Night Live
1975
as McSooshi Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
