Ben Johnson
The Evening Star (1996)
The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film. It is a sequel to the Academy Award-winning 1983 film Terms of Endearment starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway, for which she won an Oscar in the original film. Based on the 1992 novel by Larry McMurtry, the screenplay is by Robert Harling, who also served as dire...
Starring: George Newbern•Robert Armstrong•John Wayne•Ida Lupino•Van Heflin•Robert Preston•William Holden•Dub Taylor•Alan Ladd
The Chase (1991)
The Chase is a 1991 American crime drama television film directed by Paul Wendkos, written by Guerdon Trueblood, and starring Casey Siemaszko and Ben Johnson. It is based on the true story of American criminal Phillip Hutchinson, who robbed a bank, killed a police officer, and took a man hostage in a 1988 rampage in Denver, Colorado.
Starring: George Newbern•Edmond O'Brien
Cherry 2000 (1988)
Cherry 2000 is a 1988 American science-fiction film directed by Steve De Jarnatt and starring Melanie Griffith and David Andrews. It was produced by Edward R. Pressman and Caldecot Chubb. The screenplay was by Michael Almereyda.
Starring: George Newbern•Robert Ryan•Dane Clark•Joanne Dru•Terry Moore
Red Dawn (1984)
Red Dawn is a 1984 American action drama film directed by John Milius with a screenplay by Milius and Kevin Reynolds. The film depicts a fictional World War III centering on a land invasion of the continental United States by an alliance of Soviet, Warsaw Pact and Latin American states. The story follows a group of teenaged guerillas, known as the ...
Starring: George Newbern•Bo Hopkins•Ben Johnson•Dean Martin•Ernest Borgnine•Peter Graves•Jack Palance•Slim Pickens
The Hunter (1980)
The Hunter is a 1980 American biographical action thriller film directed by Buzz Kulik and starring Steve McQueen. The film was McQueen's final role before his death in November of that year at age 50.
Starring: George Newbern•Brandon De Wilde•Patrick Swayze•Charles Bronson•Shirley MacLaine
Terror Train (1980)
Terror Train is a 1980 slasher film directed by Roger Spottiswoode in his directorial debut and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, and Hart Bochner. Set aboard a moving train on New Year's Eve, the film follows a group of pre-medical school students holding a costume party who are targeted by a killer who steals their costumes after murdering ...
Starring: George Newbern•Eli Wallach•Jack Elam•Marion Ross•James Best•Steve McQueen
Grayeagle (1977)
Grayeagle is a 1977 American Western film directed Charles B. Pierce, written by Pierce, Brad White, and Michael O. Sajbel, starring Ben Johnson, Iron Eyes Cody and Lana Wood. The theme is about kidnapping and interracial/cross-cultural romance.
Starring: George Newbern•Glenn Corbett•James Coburn
The Savage Bees (1976)
The Savage Bees is a 1976 American natural horror television film directed and produced by Bruce Geller and written by Guerdon Trueblood. The film stars Ben Johnson, Michael Parks, Paul Hecht, Gretchen Corbett, and Horst Buchholz. It follows a swarm of killer bees threatening people during Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Starring: George Newbern•Warren Oates•Candy Moore•Honor Blackman•Ellen Burstyn•Michael Parks
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 1976 American thriller horror film directed and produced by Charles B. Pierce, and written by Earl E. Smith. The film is loosely based on the 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders, crimes attributed to an unidentified serial killer known as the Phantom Killer. It is narrated by Vern Stierman, who had narrated Pierce's ...
Starring: George Newbern•Burt Reynolds•Harry Dean Stanton
Bite the Bullet (1975)
Bite the Bullet is a 1975 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Richard Brooks and starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, and James Coburn, with Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ben Johnson, and Dabney Coleman in supporting roles.
Starring: George Newbern•Candice Bergen•Gene Hackman•Jaime Sánchez•Lana Wood•Jan-Michael Vincent•Catherine Deneuve
Breakheart Pass (1975)
Breakheart Pass is a 1975 American Western film that stars Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, and Jill Ireland. Based on the 1974 novel of the same title by Scottish author Alistair MacLean (1922–1987), it was filmed in north central Idaho.
Starring: George Newbern•Carol White•Ali MacGraw•Gretchen Corbett•Dabney Coleman
Hustle (1975)
Hustle is a 1975 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve.
Starring: George Newbern•Joe Don Baker•Geoffrey Deuel
The Sugarland Express (1974)
The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama film directed by Steven Spielberg in his feature film directorial debut. The film follows a woman and her husband as they take a police officer hostage and flee across Texas while they try to get to their child before he is placed in foster care. The event partially took place, the story is parti...
Starring: George Newbern•Timothy Bottoms•Cybill Shepherd
Dillinger (1973)
Dillinger is a 1973 American gangster film about the life and criminal exploits of notorious bank robber John Dillinger. It stars Warren Oates as Dillinger, Ben Johnson as his pursuer, FBI Agent Melvin Purvis, and Cloris Leachman as the "Lady in Red" who made it possible for Purvis to kill Dillinger. It also features the first film performance by t...
Starring: George Newbern•Hart Bochner•Andrew Prine•Bo Hopkins•Al Lettieri•Sally Struthers•Jack Dodson
The Getaway (1972)
The Getaway is a 1972 American heist thriller film based on the 1958 novel by Jim Thompson. The film was directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Walter Hill, and stars Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, and Sally Struthers. The plot follows imprisoned mastermind robber Carter "Doc" McCoy (McQueen), whose wife Carol (MacGraw) conspi...
Starring: Barbara Leigh•George Newbern•Richard Dreyfuss•Patrick Swayze•Steve Kanaly•William Atherton•Charles Durning•Melanie Griffith•Paul Hecht
Junior Bonner (1972)
Junior Bonner is a 1972 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Joe Don Baker and Ida Lupino. The film focuses on a veteran rodeo rider as he returns to his hometown of Prescott, Arizona, to participate in an annual rodeo competition and reunite with his brother and estranged parents. Many critics...
Starring: Dawn Wells•Jamie Lee Curtis•George Newbern•Patrick Swayze•LeVar Burton•David Copperfield
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from the semi-autobiographical 1966 novel The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry. The film's ensemble cast includes Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, and Cybill Shepherd. Set in a small t...
Starring: George Newbern•Hart Bochner•Derek MacKinnon•Powers Boothe•Tim Thomerson•Lea Thompson•Bill Paxton•C. Thomas Howell
Something Big (1971)
Something Big is a 1971 American Western comedy film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Produced by McLaglen and screenwriter James Lee Barrett, the film stars Dean Martin, Honor Blackman and Brian Keith.
Starring: George Newbern•Jennifer Grey•Miranda Richardson•Mackenzie Astin•Casey Siemaszko
Chisum (1970)
Chisum is a 1970 American Western film directed by Andrew McLaglen, starring John Wayne in the titular role, and adapted for the screen by Andrew J. Fenady from his short story "Chisum and the Lincoln County War." The supporting cast features Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson, Glenn Corbett, Andrew Prine, Bruce Cabot, Patric Knowles, ...
Starring: David Andrews•Pamela Gidley•George Newbern•Juliette Lewis•Scott Wolf•Jean Arthur
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American epic Revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial ...
Starring: Robert Armstrong•Van Heflin•William Holden•George Newbern•Alan Ladd•Andrew Prine•Edmond O'Brien•Edgar Buchanan
Tomboy and the Champ (1961)
Tomboy and the Champ is a 1961 American Western film directed by Francis D. Lyon and starring Candy Moore, Ben Johnson, and Jesse White.
Starring: George Newbern•Robert Ryan
Fort Bowie (1958)
Fort Bowie is a 1958 American Western film directed by Howard W. Koch and written by Maurice Tombragel. The film stars Ben Johnson, Jan Harrison, Kent Taylor, Maureen Hingert, Peter Mamakos and Larry Chance. The film was released on February 1, 1958, by United Artists.
Starring: George Newbern•Dane Clark
Shane (1953)
Shane is a 1953 American Technicolor Western film starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur and Van Heflin. Released by Paramount Pictures, the film is noted for its landscape cinematography, editing, performances, and contributions to the genre. The picture was produced and directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by A. B. Guthrie Jr., based on the 1949...
Starring: Joanne Dru•Terry Moore•Martha Hyer•George Newbern•Harry Carey Jr.•Ernest Borgnine
Wild Stallion (1952)
Wild Stallion is a 1952 American Western film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Ben Johnson, Edgar Buchanan and Martha Hyer. The film's sets were designed by the art director Martin Obzina.
Starring: Peter Graves•Jack Palance•George Newbern
Fort Defiance (1951)
Fort Defiance is a 1951 American Western film directed by John Rawlins and written by Louis Lantz. The film stars Dane Clark, Ben Johnson, Peter Graves, Tracey Roberts, George Cleveland and Ralph Sanford. The film was released on October 9, 1951, by United Artists.
Starring: Brandon De Wilde•George Newbern•Maureen Hingert
Wagon Master (1950)
Wagon Master is a 1950 American Western film produced and directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, and Ward Bond. The screenplay concerns a Mormon pioneer wagon train to the San Juan River in Utah. The film inspired the US television series Wagon Train (1957–1965), which starred Ward Bond until his death in 1960....
Starring: Candy Moore•George Newbern
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Mighty Joe Young is a 1949 American black and white fantasy film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and produced by the same creative team responsible for King Kong (1933). Produced by Merian C. Cooper, who wrote the story, and Ruth Rose, who wrote the screenplay, the film was directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and stars Robert Armstrong, Terry Moore,...
Starring: Jaime Sánchez•Emilio Fernández•George Newbern
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 American Technicolor Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne. It is the second film in Ford's "Cavalry Trilogy", along with Fort Apache (1948) and Rio Grande (1950). With a budget of $1.6 million, the film was one of the most expensive Westerns made up to that time. It was a major hit for RKO. T...
Starring: David Andrews•Geoffrey Deuel•George Newbern