Mark Saltzman began his career in New York with Jim Henson, writing for the Muppets. His Sesame Street sketches and songs (including "Caribbean Amphibian") earned him seven Emmy Awards, but behind Kermit's back, Mark was writing cabaret shows and musicals that played at Soho Rep, 13th Street Theater, and the Village Gate, where he co-wrote the long-running revue A, My Name is Alice. For network television, Mark collaborated with Jerry Herman on the CBS TV movie Mrs. Santa Claus, starring Angela Lansbury. For the movies, he wrote The Adventures of Milo and Otis, Three Ninjas Kick Back and has had screenplays commissioned by SONY, Universal, and Disney. His TV movie The Red Sneakers, directed by and starring Gregory Hines was nominated for a Writers Guild Award. Mark's musical play The Tin Pan Alley Rag opened at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1997 and was nominated for five Los Angeles Ovation Awards, including Best Musical. It played in theaters throughout the US, including Goodspeed and The Cleveland Playhouse, and had a successful run at New York's Roundabout Theater where it was nominated as Best Musical by the Outer Critics Circle. Mark's musical Falling for Make Believe, based on the life of Lorenz Hart, opened in April 2013 at the Colony Theater in California. His comedy Mr. Shaw Goes to Hollywood played at Laguna Playhouse and Chicago's Greenhouse Theater and was optioned for a movie by The Little Film Company. His stage musical, Romeo and Bernadette received two Drama Desk Award nominations in 2020 as well as winning awards from the Outer Critics Circle. The show will re-open off-Broadway in 2022. Mark is a graduate of Cornell University's English and theater departments. He is president of the Arnold Glassman Fund, a charitable foundation that provides grants for worthy documentaries, mostly about film history and gay issues.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Writer and producer, also actor
- 11 on MovieCove · 14 credits in all
What are Mark Saltzman's films like?
Across their 11 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 10
Light 9 · Serious 1 · Dark 0
A split, not a type: Grounded 7 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
Gentle 8 · Charged 2 · Intense 0
Steady 9 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 9 · Funny 0
Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 6 · Relentless 0
Casual 8 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 1
Easy watch 9 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 9 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1
Moods and endings
- Happy9
- Bittersweet1
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Mark Saltzman's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (5).
Subscription and free streaming for Mark Saltzman's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
14 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Imagination Movers(2007)
Midcredits score: 49th percentile of all shows
Third Man Out(2005)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films
The Red Sneakers(2002)
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
The Poof Point(2001)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
Mrs. Santa Claus(1996)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
Napoleon(1995)
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
3 Ninjas Kick Back(1994)
Midcredits score: 17th percentile of all films
Rock with Barney (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Sesame Street: Dance Along! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1990)
The Jim Henson Hour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1989)
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
Sesame Street(1969)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all shows
Career shape
A full career of 12 titles from 1969 to 2005.
Biggest box office
The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986)
Highest rated
The Adventures of Milo and Otis (1986)
Most popular right now
Imagination Movers (2007)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Mark Saltzman's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 51st percentile, the median of all 9; across their 10 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 57th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up1
- 50th to 74th5
- 25th to 49th2
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
6 of their 11 titles are Mixed.
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the dialogue 42/100 and the plot and story 41/100 in their films, across 7 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.