Actress
Dancer
Comedian
December 11, 1944 – October 29, 2024
Diagnosed with Multiple
Sclerosis (MS) in 1983.
Teri Garr in Star
Trek (1968)
Richard Dreyfuss (left)
and Teri Garr (right) in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Gene Wilder (left) and
Teri Garr (right) in Young Frankenstein (1974)
Credits:
Book:
Speedbumps: Flooring it
Through Hollywood (2005).
Movies and television:
1988
MTV Video Music Awards (1988); 50 Years of Funny Females (1995); A Better Man:
The Making of Tootsie (2008); A Colder Kind of Death (2001); A Comic's Climb at
the USCAF (2005); A Festival at Ford's (1991); A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a
Perfect Little Murder (1990); A Simple Wish (1997); A Swingin' Affair (1963); A
Taste of Jupiter (2005); Adventures in Wonderland (1993); AFI Life Achievement
Award (1986–2013); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000);
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (1999); After
Hours (1985); Aliens for Breakfast (1995); Aloha, Scooby-Doo! (2005); American
Cinema (1995); An American Saturday Night (1991); And the Oscar Goes to...
(2014); Ask Rita (2003); Banyon (1972); Barnaby Jones (1974); Barney's First
Adventures (1998); Batman (1966); Batman Beyond (1999–2000); Batman Beyond:
Return of the Joker (2000); Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999); Biography (1998–2002);
Bitte umblättern (1984); Black Dahlia / Video Game (1998); Casper Meets Wendy
(1998); Celebrity First Loves (1995); Changes (1969); Changing Habits (1997); Cher
(1975); Chicken Soup for the Soul (1999–2000); Cinemax Comedy Experiment (1985
/ 1988); Clambake (1967); Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977); Crumbs
(2006); David Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival (1986); Deja View
(1986); Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992); Des O'Connor
Tonight (1992); Dick (1999); Do It Debbie's Way (1983); Doctor Franken (1980); Double
Jeopardy (1996); Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (1999); Dr. Kildare (1965); Dream
On (1992); Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1994); Dumb and Dumber (1994); E!
True Hollywood Story (2003); Elvis Forever (2002); Entertainment Tonight (2007);
ER (1999); Expired (2007); Faerie Tale Theatre (1982 / 1985); Felicity (2001); Firstborn
(1984); For Pete's Sake! (1966); Frasier (1995); Fresno (1986); Friday Night
(1992); Friends (1997–1998); Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert (1993); Full
Moon in Blue Water (1988); Fun in Acapulco (1963); Futures (1991); Gene Wilder:
Loved, Remembered (2017); Ghost World (2001); God Out the Window (2007); Good
& Evil (1991); Good Advice (1994); Great Drives (1996); Greetings from
Tucson (2003); GSN Live (2009); Half a Dozen Babies (1999); Head (1968); Hey,
Hey We're the Monkees (1997); Hollywood Squares (2001–2002); Hollywood: The
Gift of Laughter (1982); Homage to Steve (1984); Honky Tonk Freeway (1981); Hour
Magazine (1984–1986); How to Marry a Billionaire (2011); Hunter (1977); Imagine
(2018); Inside the Coppola Personality (1981); Insight (1966); Intimate
Portrait (2000); Intimate Strangers (1986); It Takes a Thief (1969); I've Got a
Secret (2000); Jackie Gleason: The Great One (1988); Java Junkie (1979); Jeopardy!
(1993–1998); Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2006); John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965);
Kabluey (2007); Kill the Man (1999); King of the Hill (2000); Kissin' Cousins
(1964); La tele de tu vida (2007); Larry King Live (2005); Late Night with
Conan O'Brien (1995–1996); Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993); Late
Show with David Letterman (1993–2008); Laugh? I Thought I'd Die! (1999); Law
& Order: Special Victims Unit (2005); Law and Order (1976); Legends (2008);
Let It Ride (1989); Life with Bonnie (2003); Life Without Dick (2002); Lifetime
Presents: Disney's American Teachers Awards (2001); Love, Gilda (2018); M*A*S*H
(1973 / 1978); Mad TV (2002); Martin Mull Live from North Ridgeville, Ohio
(1987); Mary & Tim (1997); Maryjane (1968); Maude (1975); Mayberry R.F.D.
(1968); McCloud (1970–1975); Memories Then and Now (1988); Men Behaving Badly
(1996); Michael (1996); Miracles (1986); Mom and Dad Save the World (1992); Mother
Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990); Movin' with Nancy (1967); Mr. Mike's Mondo Video
(1979); Mr. Mom (1983); Mr. Novak (1964); Murder Live! (1997); Murphy Brown (1993);
Night of 100 Stars II (1985); NightScream (1997); Oh, God! (1977); Once Upon a Brothers
Grimm (1977); Once Upon a Brothers Grimm / Segment: The Frog Prince (1977); One
from the Heart (1981); One on One with John Tesh (1991); Out Cold (1989); Pack
of Lies (1987); Pajama Party (1964); Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim (1987); Paul
Sand in Friends and Lovers (1974); Perfect Alibi (1995); Prime Suspect (1982); Radio
City Music Hall: The Story Behind the Showplace (1999); Ray Parker Jr.:
Ghostbusters (1984); Ready to Wear (1994); Red Line 7000 (1965); Remembering
Gene Wilder (2023); Rendez-Vous Video Magazine / Segment: Coppola (1981); Role
Model: Gene Wilder (2008); Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary (1977);
Room 222 (1969); Roustabout (1964); Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1997); Safeguard:
Beige Deodorant and Antibacterial Soap Commercial (1972); Saturday Night Live
(1979 / 1985); Save the Rabbits (1994); Screen Goddesses (2006); Searching for
Debra Winger (2002); Sesame Street (1987); Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003); Shindig!
(1964–1965); Shining Time Station: One of the Family (1995); Shivaree (1965); Short
Time (1990); Showbiz Today (1992); Sin City Spectacular (1998–1999); Spielberg
(2017); Star Trek (1968); Steve Martin: A Comic Life (1999); Stranger in the
Family (1991); Strong Medicine (2001); Studio 10 (2017); Summertree (1971); Tales
from the Crypt (1991); Teri Garr in Flapjack Floozie (1988); That Girl (1967–1968);
The 13th Annual CableACE Awards (1992); The 15th Annual IFP/West Independent
Spirit Awards (2000); The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1984); The 50th
Annual Golden Globe Awards (1993); The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1994); The
55th Annual Academy Awards (1983); The 58th Annual Academy Awards (1986); The
6th Annual Independent Spirit Awards (1991); The 7th Annual American Comedy
Awards (1993); The Absent-Minded Waiter (1977); The Alan Hamel Show (1978); The
Andy Griffith Show (1968); The Arsenio Hall Show (1991); The Best of Disney: 50
Years of Magic (1991); The Best TV Shows That Never Were (2004); The Black
Stallion (1979); The Black Stallion Returns (1983); The Bob Newhart Show (1973–1974);
The Bonnie Hunt Show (2008); The Booth / Segment: Death at Dinner (1985); The
Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour (1973); The Carson Podcast (2018); The
Celebrity Guide to Entertaining (1993); The Conversation (1974); The Cool Ones
(1967); The Definite Maybe (1997); The Definitive Elvis: The Hollywood Years -
Part II: 1962-1969 (2002); The Dennis Miller Show (1992); The Downer Channel
(2001); The Dream Studio (2004); The Escape Artist (1982); The Factor (2014); The
Full Wax (1992); The General Motors Playwrights Theater (1993); The Girl with
Something Extra (1973–1974); The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996); The Hardy
Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967); The Hollywood Squares (Daytime)
(1975); The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show (1972); The Larry Sanders Show (1993); The
Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (1987); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
(2005); The Legend of Prince Valiant (1993); The Making of 'Close Encounters of
the Third Kind' (1977 / 2001); The Martin Short Show (2000); The Merv Griffin
Show (1975–1984); The Mike Douglas Show (1978); The Moonshine War (1970); The
Mothers-In-Law (1969); The Movie Awards (1991); The New Dick Van Dyke Show (1973);
The New Show (1984); The Odd Couple (1974); The Player (1992); The Rosie
O'Donnell Show (1996); The Sky Is Falling (1999); The Sonny and Cher Comedy
Hour (1971–1977); The Sonny Comedy Revue (1974); The Sting II (1983); The
T.A.M.I. Show (1964); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1975–1992); The
Tony Danza Show (2006); The View (2005); The Weird Al Show (1997); The Winter
of Our Discontent (1983); This Is the Life (1970); This Means War (2012); To
Catch a King (1984); Today (1982); Tootsie (1982); Trailers from Hell (2007); Trying
Times (1987); Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years (2000); Ultimate
Trek: Star Trek's Greatest Moments (1999); Unaccompanied Minors (2006); Viva
Las Vegas (1964); Waiting for the Light (1990); Weakest Link (2001); What a Way
to Go! (1964); What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2003); Where the Action Is (1965); Where's
the Bus? (1966); Witches' Brew (1980); Wogan (1987); Women of the House (1995);
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); Young Frankenstein (1974); Young
Frankenstein: It's Alive! Creating a Monster Classic (2008); Your Total Health
(2006).