Ben Gazzara
Dogville (2004)
Dogville is a 2003 avant-garde drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier, and starring an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan with John Hurt narrating. It is a parable that uses an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell...
Starring: James Mason•Dean McDermott•Fredric March•Laurence Olivier•James Stewart•David Niven•Eve Arden•Sterling Hayden•Lauren Bacall•Jane Adams
Hysterical Blindness (2002)
Hysterical Blindness is a 2002 American television drama film directed by Mira Nair and written by Laura Cahill, based on her stage play of the same name. It stars Gena Rowlands, Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis, and Ben Gazzara. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 2002, and aired on HBO on August 21, 2002. In 2003, Uma Thurm...
Starring: Dean McDermott•Christina Ricci•John Cassavetes•Arthur O'Connell
Brian's Song (2001)
Brian's Song is the 2001 remake of the 1971 television film Brian's Song, telling the story of Brian Piccolo, a white running back who meets, clashes with and befriends fellow Chicago Bears running back Gale Sayers. The movie was adapted from Sayers' own words in his 1970 autobiography, I am Third. The television movie, produced by Columbia TriStar...
Starring: Dean McDermott•Dick Clark•Stuart Whitman•Timothy Carey•Ben Gazzara•George Peppard•Sammy Davis Jr.
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Big Lebowski is a 1998 crime comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. He is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, then learns that a millionaire also named Jeffrey Lebowski was the intended victim. The millionaire Lebows...
Starring: Dean McDermott•Suzanne Pleshette•Gena Rowlands•Jenny Runacre•E. G. Marshall•Peter Falk•Martin Balsam
Buffalo '66 (1998)
Buffalo '66 is a 1998 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Vincent Gallo, starring Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara and Anjelica Huston. The plot revolves around Billy Brown (Gallo), a man who kidnaps a young tap dancer named Layla (Ricci) and forces her to pretend to be his wife to impress his parents after he gets released ...
Starring: Dean McDermott•Yvette Mimieux•Lea Massari•Peter Sellers•George Segal•Britt Ekland•Robert Shaw
Happiness (1998)
Happiness is a 1998 American black comedy film written and directed by Todd Solondz, that portrays the lives of three sisters, their families, and those around them. The film was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for "its bold tracking of controversial contemporary themes, richly-layered subtext, and remarkable fluidity of...
Starring: James Caan•Dean McDermott•Jacqueline Bisset•Donald Sutherland•Seymour Cassel
Illuminata (1998)
Illuminata is a 1998 romantic comedy film directed by John Turturro and written by Brandon Cole and Turturro, based on Cole's play Imperfect Love. The cinematographer was Harris Savides. The puppet sequences were done by Roman Paska. Music for the 'Tuccio Operatic Dream Sequence' was composed by Richard Termini.
Starring: Dean McDermott•John Hurt•Anjelica Huston•Jeff Bridges•Jenny Runacre•Susan Sarandon
Shadow Conspiracy (1997)
Shadow Conspiracy is a 1997 American political thriller film starring Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Linda Hamilton, and Sam Waterston. It was the final film directed by George P. Cosmatos, who died in 2005. The film was poorly received by critics. It was released on DVD in the United States in November 2003 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
Starring: Dean McDermott•Christopher Walken•Sylvester Stallone•Sam Waterston•Sam Elliott•John Ritter
The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
The Spanish Prisoner is a 1997 American neo-noir suspense film, written and directed by David Mamet and starring Campbell Scott, Steve Martin, Rebecca Pidgeon, Ben Gazzara, Felicity Huffman and Ricky Jay. It tells a story of corporate espionage conducted through an elaborate confidence game.
Starring: Dean McDermott•Paul Winfield•Beverly D'Angelo•Terry Funk
Road House (1989)
Road House is a 1989 American action film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze as a cooler at a newly refurbished roadside bar who protects a small town in Missouri from a corrupt businessman. Sam Elliott co-stars as a bouncer, the mentor, friend, and foil of Swayze's character. The cast also includes Kelly Lynch as Swayze's lov...
Starring: Dean McDermott•Patrick Swayze•Blair Brown•Dorothy Stratten•Rosanna Arquette
Inchon (1982)
Inchon is a 1981 epic war film about the Battle of Inchon, considered to be the turning point of the Korean War. The film was directed by Terence Young and financed by Unification movement founder Sun Myung Moon. It stars Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States surprise amphibious landing at Incheon, South Korea in ...
Starring: Mickey Rourke•Dean McDermott•Linda Hamilton•Željko Ivanek•Charlie Sheen
They All Laughed (1981)
They All Laughed is a 1981 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, John Ritter, Colleen Camp, Patti Hansen, and Dorothy Stratten. The film was based on a screenplay by Bogdanovich and Blaine Novak. It takes its name from the George and Ira Gershwin song of the same name.
Starring: Patricia Clarkson•Dean McDermott•John Goodman•John Turturro•Stephen Lang
Bloodline (1979)
Bloodline is a 1979 thriller film directed by Terence Young from a screenplay by Laird Koenig, based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Sidney Sheldon. It was the only R-rated film ever made by its star, Audrey Hepburn.
Starring: Steve Buscemi•Patricia Clarkson•Dean McDermott
Saint Jack (1979)
Saint Jack is a 1979 film directed by Peter Bogdanovich based on the 1973 novel Saint Jack. Ben Gazzara stars as Flowers in the film. The film also features Denholm Elliott and George Lazenby.
Starring: Dean McDermott•Kelly Lynch
Opening Night (1977)
Opening Night is a 1977 American psychological drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes, and starring Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, and Cassavetes. Its plot follows a stage actress who, after witnessing the accidental death of one of her fans, is haunted by a recurring apparition of the deceased w...
Starring: Rebecca Pidgeon•Dean McDermott•Christina Ricci
High Velocity (1976)
High Velocity is a 1976 action film that was the only film of director Remi Kramer, who also co-wrote the screenplay.
Starring: Dean McDermott•Philip Seymour Hoffman•Vincent Gallo
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is a 1976 American neo-noir crime film written and directed by John Cassavetes and starring Ben Gazzara. A rough and gritty film, this is the second of their three collaborations, following Husbands and preceding Opening Night. Timothy Carey, Seymour Cassel, Morgan Woodward, Meade Roberts, and Azizi Johari appear in ...
Starring: Camryn Manheim•Dean McDermott•Elise Neal
Capone (1975)
Capone is a 1975 American biographical crime film directed by Steve Carver, written by Howard Browne, and starring Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Susan Blakely, John Cassavetes, and Sylvester Stallone in an early film appearance. The film is a biography of the infamous Al Capone.
Starring: Rebecca Pidgeon•Dean McDermott•Dylan Baker•Katherine Borowitz
The Neptune Factor (1973)
The Neptune Factor, also known as The Neptune Disaster, is a 1973 science fiction film directed by Daniel Petrie, featuring underwater cinematography by Paul Herbermann. The film's special effects utilized underwater photography of miniatures with actual marine life.
Starring: Sean Maher•Dean McDermott•Aidan Devine
Husbands (1970)
Husbands is a 1970 American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. It stars Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, and Cassavetes as three middle class men in the throes of a midlife crisis following the death of a close friend.
Starring: Dean McDermott•Fredric March•James Stewart
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
The Bridge at Remagen is a 1969 DeLuxe Color war film in Panavision starring George Segal, Ben Gazzara and Robert Vaughn. The film, which was directed by John Guillermin, was shot in Czechoslovakia. It is based on the nonfiction book The Bridge at Remagen: The Amazing Story of March 7, 1945 by writer and U.S. Representative Ken Hechler. The screenp...
Starring: Dean McDermott•David Niven•Eve Arden
A Rage to Live (1965)
A Rage to Live is a 1965 American drama film directed by Walter Grauman and starring Suzanne Pleshette as a woman whose passions wreak havoc on her life. The screenplay by John T. Kelley is based on the 1949 novel of the same name by John O'Hara.
Starring: Dean McDermott•Sterling Hayden•Eva Marie Saint
Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
Carol for Another Christmas is a 1964 American TV movie, written by Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol and a plea for global cooperation. It was the first in a planned series of television specials developed to promote the United Nations and educate viewers about its mission. Originally televised on th...
Starring: Arthur O'Connell•Lee Remick•Dean McDermott•Dick Clark•Philip Seymour Hoffman•Stuart Whitman
The Captive City (1962)
The Captive City is a 1962 Italian English-language war film directed by Joseph Anthony and starring David Niven, Lea Massari and Ben Gazzara. It is based on the 1955 novel The Captive City by John Appleby. The film was released in the US as Conquered City by American International Pictures as a double feature with The Day the Earth Froze.
Starring: George Peppard•Dean McDermott•Sammy Davis Jr.•Bradford Dillman
Convicts 4 (1962)
Convicts 4, also known as Reprieve, is a 1962 American neo noir crime film starring Ben Gazzara and directed by Millard Kaufman. The film is a fictionalized version of the life of death row convict John Resko, who wrote his autobiography: Reprieve.
Starring: Suzanne Pleshette•Dean McDermott•George C. Scott
The Young Doctors (1961)
The Young Doctors is a 1961 drama film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Ben Gazzara, Fredric March, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert, Phyllis Love, Aline MacMahon, George Segal, and Dolph Sweet.
Starring: E. G. Marshall•Peter Falk•Dean McDermott
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Wendell Mayes was based on the 1958 novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name of Robert Traver. Voelker based the novel on a 1952 murder case in which he was the defense att...
Starring: Martin Balsam•Lea Massari•Peter Sellers•George Segal•Dean McDermott•Robert Shaw
The Strange One (1957)
The Strange One is a 1957 American film noir about students faced with an ethical dilemma in a military college in the Southern United States. It was directed by Jack Garfein, produced by Sam Spiegel, and was adapted from a novel and stage play by Calder Willingham called End as a Man. It marked the film debut of Ben Gazzara, George Peppard and Jul...
Starring: Dean McDermott•Jenny Runacre