Known for Acting
Born
December 21, 1915
Died
September 29, 2010 (age 94)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Filmography
24 films, 46 shows


The Two Jakes
1990 · 2h 17m
country: United States
Real estate developer Jake Berman hires private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes for some run-of-the-mill matrimonial work. After Berman shoots his wife's lover, who happens to be his business partner, Gittes is drawn into a web of conspiracy and deceit involving the oil reserves beneath Los Angeles. While investigating, Gittes hears a voice from his past that causes him to revisit a traumatic case in Chinatown.


Movers & Shakers
1985 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Studio head Joe Mulholland promises his dying producer and mentor, Saul Gritz, to adapt a popular sex manual into a film, despite his better judgment. Unable to figure out how to turn the nonfiction book into a narrative movie, Mulholland enlists the services of Herb Dorman, a screenwriter of popular romantic films with a bad marriage, and volatile director Sid Spokane to help him create a movie.


Blame It on the Night
1984 · 1h 25m
country: United States
When his unmarried mother dies, custody of 13-year-old Job is assumed by his alleged father, Chris, whom he has never seen. Job is an enthusiastic cadet at a military academy, and Chris turns out to be a top-grossing rock star who removes Job from his beloved school to keep him company on tour. Getting acquainted is fraught with culture shock for both father and son. Written by Paul Emmons


They Only Come Out at Night
1975 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Jack Warden plays real-life Los Angeles detective John St. John in this pilot for the Jigsaw John television series. He and his Native American partner track a pervert serial killer of elderly women.


Chinatown
1974 · 2h 10m
country: United States
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.


Kelly's Heroes
1970 · 2h 24m
country: United States
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.


Mister Buddwing
1966 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.


The Birds
1963 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.


The Murder Men
1961 · 1h 13m
country: United States
Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitation. Edited from TV series, Cain's Hundred


The Crowded Sky
1960 · 1h 45m
country: United States
When Navy pilot Dale Heath takes off, he doesn't expect his navigational equipment to fail and must adapt when it goes out along with his radio. Heading straight for a commercial jet piloted by Dick Barnett, whose plane is full of passengers, Heath can't tell which way to turn in order to avoid a catastrophe.
The Gun of Zangara
The Gun of Zangara
1960 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Eliot Ness and his team work to prevent the attempted assassination of President Elect FDR in Miami Beach in 1933.


The Scarface Mob
1959 · 1h 42m
country: United States
In 1929 Chicago, Federal investigator Eliot Ness struggles in the fight against Al Capone. He decides to form a special team of reliable, dedicated, honest law enforcement officers.


Onionhead
1958 · 1h 51m
country: United States
An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.


The Sad Sack
1957 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal Dolan and Private Stan Wensalawsky to help with the training. Dolan and Stan both have scores to settle with Bixby and their "guidance" leads to more mishaps. Sergeant Pulley has them shipped out to Morocco. On leave in North Africa, Bixy wanders alone into a bar, has a few Moroccan Delights, which he thinks are malted milks, and becomes convinced that exotic singer-dancer Zita is THE girl for him.


Beau James
1957 · 1h 45m
country: United States
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.


No Right to Kill
1956 · 1h
country: Unknown
This is a special series of lost classic programs from the Golden Age of TV. The series has been restored by SabuCat Productions from the best archival film elements available in high definition, some of the programs have not been seen since they were originally broadcast. Volume One features 2 one-hour dramatic programs that feature John Cassavetes. Climax! ran for four years - This was an anthology series that presented a different story and different set of characters on each episode. It ran from 1954 to 1958 and featured Casino Royale of James Bond fame that lead to a feature film of the same titles. On August 9th, 1956 - they showed No Right to Kill directed by Buzz Kulik and starring John Cassavetes, Robert H. Harris, Joe Mantell and Terry Moore.


Storm Center
1956 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist.


Marty
1955 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.
The Bachelor Party
The Bachelor Party
1953 · 58m
country: Unknown
Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.


Marty
1953 · 51m
country: United States
Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.


And Baby Makes Three
1949 · 1h 24m
country: United States
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.


Port of New York
1949 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Two narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at the New York harbor to smuggle in their contraband.


Barbary Pirate
1949 · 1h 5m
country: United States
U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A fast-moving story with lots of sabers and rapiers.


The Undercover Man
1949 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.