
Janice Karman
Actor · b. 1954 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Janice Felice Karman (born May 21, 1954) is an American actress, film producer, record producer, singer, and voice artist. She is the co-owner of Bagdasarian Productions with her husband Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Karman was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father was psychologist Harvey Leroy Karman (born Harvey Walters). Her mother, Felice Karman, was also a psychologist. Karman played the role of Bunny in the 1975 film Switchblade Sisters (alternate title: The Jezebels), and Hank in the 1976 exploitation film Slumber Party '57. The focus of Bagdasarian Productions company is on creating albums, cartoons, and other products based on the Alvin and the Chipmunks characters, who were created by Bagdasarian's father Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., besides helping to produce the records and cartoons. Karman provides the singing voices of Theodore and the members of the female spin-off group The Chipettes: Brittany, Jeanette, and Eleanor (Dody Goodman also did the voice of Miss Beatrice Miller as well). In Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks, Janice also got to play the role of La-Lu. She originally voiced Theodore in the live-action/computer-animated film adaptation, but for promotional reasons Theodore was re-recorded by the singer and actor Jesse McCartney. However, her singing was kept in. Karman and her husband have two children, a daughter Vanessa (1986) and a son Michael (b. January 18, 1990).
Movies22
Movie5.8ComedyFamilyA struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.
Alvin and the Chipmunks
2007 · 4.8K votes
Movie5.7ComedyFamilyPop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville's twenty-something nephew Toby. The boys must put aside music super stardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school's music program by winning the $25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet their match in three singing chipmunks known as The Chipettes - Brittany, Eleanor and Jeanette. Romantic and musical sparks are ignited when the Chipmunks and Chipettes square off.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
2009 · 3.2K votes
Movie5.7ComedyFantasyPlaying around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
2011 · 2.4K votes
Movie6.0FamilyComedyThrough a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in New York City - and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
2015 · 1.8K votes
Movie6.8AnimationComedyThe Chipmunks work in an amusement park attraction. After Alvin drives a crazy tour group, they miss their next performance and are locked in the park after closing time. Little do they know that the real Dr. Frankenstein has been hired in a new attraction called, "Frankenstein's Castle"; figuring that the castle isn't scary enough, the mad scientist recreates the real Monster.
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein
1999 · 156 votes
Movie6.9FamilyFantasyAs Alvin struggles with nightmares involving werewolves, the school play of Jekyll & Hyde is in jeopardy when the lead, Alvin, is suspended. In an attempt to boost his confidence, the principal suggests Theodore, who's suddenly going through some canine changes.
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman
2000 · 203 votes
Movie7.0AnimationFamilyThe Chipmunks and the Chipettes go head to head in a hot air balloon race, and the winner gets $100,000. Unbeknownst to the participants, the "race" is actually a diamond smuggling ring!
The Chipmunk Adventure
1987 · 127 votes
Movie6.1ActionComedyTwo San Francisco detectives want to bring down a local hijacking boss. But they'll have to get to him before a hitman does.
Freebie and the Bean
1974 · 72 votes
Movie6.9AnimationFamilyAlvin learns the true meaning of Christmas.
A Chipmunk Christmas
1981 · 42 votes
Movie6.2FamilyComedyThe plot chronicles the exploits of Michael, a teenager who is using marijuana and stealing his father's beer. His younger sister, Corey, is worried about him because he started acting differently. When her piggy bank goes missing, her cartoon tie-in toys come to life to help her find it. After discovering it in Michael's room along with his stash of drugs, the various cartoon characters proceed to work together and take him on a fantasy journey to teach him the risks and consequences a life of drug-use can bring and save the world.
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
1990 · 55 votes
Movie6.3ActionCrimeThe leader of an inner city girl gang is challenged when a new girl moves into the neighborhood.
Switchblade Sisters
1975 · 100 votes
Movie3.0AnimationMusicGet ready to jam with The Chipmunks on some of the hottest tunes in rock! Join host Fresh Prince on a rockin' and rappin' funfest of music from the '50s to the '90s! Alvin hooks up with Michael Jackson himself - dancing to "Beat It," like you've never seen before! Then Alvin, Simon and Theodore work their Chipmunk magic on songs made famous by Rock Legends Little Richard ("Tutti Frutti"), Elvis Presley ("Heartbreak Hotel"), and Elton John ("Crocodile Rock") and Supergroups like The Beatles ("She Loves You"), The Beach Boys ("Surfin' Safari"), The Rolling Stones ("Satisfaction"), and others! Rockin' With The Chipmunks is bursting with fantastic music and lots and lots of fun surprises!
The Chipmunks Rockin' Through The Decades
1990 · 2 votes
Movie8.5AnimationIn this story inspired by the timeless classic, A Christmas Carol, Alvin finds himself center stage as a Scroogelike little chipmunk. Ghostly visits from Dave, Theodore and Simon as the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future help him understand the true meaning of the Holiday.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Alvin's Christmas Carol
1993 · 2 votes
Movie7.0DramaTV MovieBased on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
1979 · 2 votes
Movie6.6AnimationThe Chipmunks are discussing when they were born and began to argue. They wanted to go and find their mother but Dave doesn't let them. The Chipettes are invited round while the Chipmunks go and look for their mother but Dave finds out and gets worried...
A Chipmunk Reunion
1985 · 10 votes
Movie6.0AnimationFamilyWhen he hears that the original Easter Bunny was not a rabbit at all, Alvin becomes convinced that the first deliverer of Easter baskets was indeed his grandfather, the Easter Chipmunk.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Easter Chipmunk
1995 · 2 votes
Movie4.4ComedyIn 1957, a group of high school girls spending the night in a mansion tell each other about their first sexual experiences.
Slumber Party '57
1976 · 5 votes
Movie2.9Science FictionComedyTwo aliens from a dying planet are on a mission to impregnate Earth women.
Wam Bam Thank You Spaceman
1974 · 10 votes
Movie6.8AnimationAdventureAlvin and the Chipmunks put a high-flying new spin on one of the most anticipated films of the year. Batmunk is a thrilling adventure that'll keep you on the edge of your seat...with laughter! Simon (in the most heroic role of his long, brainy career) plays the Caped Crime fighter to mischievous Alvin's hilariously villainous Jokester, an arch criminal whose cult of crooked clowns has been stealing all the toys in the city. When the thieves go after "the greatest toy in the world," Batmunk decides to teach the bad guys that crime doesn't play!
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Batmunk
2012 · 10 votes
Movie5.1ActionThrillerVusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against apartheid, and left in fear of his life) to bury his father. He meets up with his brother Ernest, who tells him their other brother Stephen couldn't be contacted. Vusi goes to Johannesburg to find him, but at first can only find his neighbor/girlfriend, Karin, a stripper. Vusi proceeds to learn how conditions have changed since the end of apartheid, not always for the better for black men.
On Dangerous Ground
1996 · 9 votes
Movie5.01986 NBC Saturday Morning preview special.
Alvin Goes Back to School
1986 · 2 votes
Movie2.0Typically unreliable father-figure Dave Seville unloads his six adopted children on a mutual friend, who spends the rest of the day teaching them important lessons in honesty and sharing and other rudimentary moral exercises.
Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks
2003 · 1 votes
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TV7.3AnimationComedyEveryone's favorite chipmunks -- Alvin, Simon and Theodore -- are back in this computer-animated version of the classic animated series. The brothers are famous rock stars who tour around the world with their best friends, the Chipettes.
Alvinnn!!! and The Chipmunks
2015 · 76 votes
TV6.8AnimationComedyThree chipmunk brothers, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are adopted by human, Dave.
Alvin and the Chipmunks
1983 · 83 votes
TVDramaComedySix buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.