Matthew Broderick

Total Box Office:
 $515.3M
Highest Rated:
95% You Can Count On Me (2000)
Lowest Rated:
6% Deck the Halls (2006)
Birthday:
Mar 21
Birthplace:
New York City, New York
Bio:
Although Matthew Broderick has built a solid reputation as one of the stage and screen's more talented and steadily working individuals, he will forever be associated with the role that gave him permanent celluloid infamy, the blissfully irresponsible title hero of John Hughes's 1986 Ferris…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography


MOVIES   

Rating Title Credit Box Office Year
72% Margaret
  • John
$46.5k 2011
68% Tower Heist
  • Mr. Fitzhugh
$78.0M 2011
38% Wonderful World
  • Ben Singer
-- 2009
56% The Tale of Despereaux
  • Despereaux
$50.8M 2008
39% Finding Amanda
  • Taylor Peters
$31.3k 2008
35% Diminished Capacity
  • Cooper
-- 2008
51% Bee Movie
  • Adam Flayman
  • Director
$126.6M 2007
50% Then She Found Me
  • Benjamin 'Ben' Green
$3.7M 2007
Mighty Warriors of Comedy
  • Actor
-- 2006
6% Deck the Halls
  • Steve Finch
$35.1M 2006
51% The Producers
  • Leopold Bloom
$19.2M 2005
52% Strangers with Candy
  • Roger Beekman
$1.9M 2005
Marie and Bruce
  • Bruce
-- 2004
76% The Lion King 1 1/2
  • Simba
-- 2004
61% The Last Shot
  • Steven Schats
$0.4M 2004
26% The Stepford Wives
  • Walter Kresby
$59.3M 2004
45% Good Boy!
  • Canid 3942 AKA Hubble
$37.6M 2003
The Music Man
  • Prof. Harold Hill
-- 2003
Recording The Producers: A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
  • Actor
-- 2001
95% You Can Count On Me
  • Brian
$8.4M 2000
92% Election
  • Jim McAllister
-- 1999
21% Inspector Gadget
  • Inspector Gadget
-- 1999
25% Godzilla
  • Dr. Niko Tatopoulos
-- 1998
33% The Lion King 2 - Simba's Pride
  • Simba
-- 1998
Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
  • Actor
-- 1997
57% Addicted to Love
  • Sam
-- 1997
62% Infinity
  • Richard Feyman
  • Director
-- 1996
54% The Cable Guy
  • Steven
-- 1996
41% The Road To Wellville
  • Will Lightbody
-- 1994
90% The Lion King
  • Simba
$94.2M 1994
74% Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (Mrs. Parker and the Round Table)
  • Charles MacArthur
-- 1994
Life in the Theatre
  • John
-- 1993
40% Thief and the Cobbler
  • Tack
-- 1993
50% The Night We Never Met
  • Sam Lester
-- 1993
Out on a Limb
  • Bill Campbell
-- 1992
Remember Pearl Harbor
  • Actor
-- 1991
93% The Freshman
  • Clark Kellogg
-- 1990
93% Glory
  • Col. Robert Gould Shaw
-- 1989
38% Family Business
  • Adam McMullen
-- 1989
71% Torch Song Trilogy
  • Alan
-- 1988
81% Biloxi Blues
  • Eugene Morris Jerome
-- 1988
Courtship
  • Actor
-- 1987
78% Project X
  • Jimmy Garrett
-- 1987
On Valentine's Day
  • Brother Vaughn
-- 1986
84% Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Ferris Bueller
-- 1986
1918
  • Brother
-- 1985
67% Ladyhawke
  • Phillipe Gaston
-- 1985
Faerie Tale Theatre - Cinderella
  • Actor
-- 1984
Master Harold and the Boys
  • Actor
-- 1984
75% Max Dugan Returns
  • Michael McPhee
-- 1983
92% WarGames (War Games)
  • David
-- 1983
Faerie Tale Theatre - Set
  • Actor
-- 1982


TV SERIES   

Rating Title Credit Year
Modern Family
  • Dave
2009-2013
100% Louie
  • Himself
2010-2012
93% 30 Rock
  • Cooter
2006-2013

Matthew Broderick Trivia

Matthew Broderick was first choice for the role of Alex P. Keaton on :Family Ties. Broderick turned down the TV role, because his father, actor James Broderick (Family TV series, among other things) was gravely ill in New York City. His son didn?t want to leave him.
- submitted by .:SexiVixxEN : (3 years ago)

Quotes from Matthew Broderick's Characters

    1. Zazu: Wrong! The only checking out you will do, is to check out of here.
    2. Young Simba: Aww, man!
    3. Zazu: We're way beyond the boundaries of the Pride Lands.
    4. Simba: Old banana beak is scared.
    5. Zazu: That's Mr. Banana Beak to you fuzzy. And I sense right now we are all in very real danger.
    6. Young Simba: Danger, ha! I look on the wild side. I laugh at the face of danger, hahahaha.
    From The Lion King. Submitted by Christopher S (31 days ago)
    1. Ferris Bueller: The question isn't what are we going to do. The question is what aren't we going to do.
    From Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Submitted by Andrea M (49 days ago)
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