Ben GazzaraFilmography

Paris, Je T'Aime

Synopsis: Twenty acclaimed filmmakers from around the world look at love in the City of Lights in this omnibus feature. Paris, Je T'Aime features 18 short stories, each set in a different part of Paris and each featuring a different cast and director (two segments were produced by two filmmakers in Read More

Quartier Latin

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Gena Rowlands penned and stars opposite longtime friend and Cassavetes collaborator Ben Gazzara in this short film set in the titular section of Paris. The two play a long-separated married couple, reunited on the eve of their divorce. Directed by Gérard Depardieu and Frédéric Auburtin, Quartier Read More

The Shore

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Lesley Ann Warren, Izabella Miko, Paula Garcés, Costas Mandylor

Synopsis: The devastating disappearance of a young girl haunts her grieving family in this fact-based tale feature debut from filmmaker Dionysius Zervos. Hungering for some quality alone time with her new boyfriend, Ray (Costas Mandylor), single mother Kaliope Harris (Izabella Miko) leaves her young Read More

Pope John Paul II

Actors: Jon Voight, Cary Elwes, Ben Gazzara, Christopher Lee, Vittoria Belvedere

Synopsis: One of several dramatized tributes to the late pontiff to be telecast in 2005, the two-part CBS biopic Pope John Paul II is a remake of a popular Italian miniseries, and was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. The film begins with the attempted assassination of the pope on May 13, 1981 Read More

Dogville

Actors: Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany, Philip Baker Hall, James Caan, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Davies, Chloë Sevigny

Synopsis: Set in a small fictional town in the U.S. during the 1930s, Lars von Trier's Dogville was filmed in a studio with a minimal set and features narration by John Hurt. On the run from a group of gangsters, Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the small mining town of Dogville. Town philosopher Tom Edison Read More

Dogville Confessions

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Lars von Trier, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Gazzara, Lauren Bacall

Hysterical Blindness

Actors: Uma Thurman, Gena Rowlands, Juliette Lewis, Justin Chambers, Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: Two aging single women in 1980s New Jersey enact a depressing routine of deluded barroom romance in this made-for-cable drama. At least 15 years after her father walked out on her, Debby (Uma Thurman) still has issues with men. She spends her evenings carousing with best friend, Beth (Juliette Lewis Read More

Too Tired To Die

Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Mira Sorvino, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Imperioli, Geno Lechner

Synopsis: South Korean-born Wonsuk Chin, a NYC resident for eight years, made his directorial debut with this hip comedy, shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. With numerous cinematic references and allusions (Bergman, Godard, Woo, Hartley), the tale begins with a black-and-white silent sequence Read More

Brian's Song

Actors: Mekhi Phifer, Elise Neal, Sean Maher, Paula Cale, Ben Gazzara, Aidan Devine, Dean McDermott

Synopsis: Based in part on the autobiography of Gale Sayers, an Football Hall of Fame inductee and one of the finest halfbacks in the history of the game, this made-for-TV drama recounts the true story of Sayers (Mekhi Phifer) and his friendship with fellow Chicago Bears player Brian Piccolo (Sean Maher). Read More

Home Sweet Hoboken

Synopsis: Japanese filmmaker Yoshifumi Hosoya, who has lived in the States since 1984, follows up on his directorial debut Sleepy Heads -- an offbeat look at Japanese ex-pats living in New York -- with this caper comedy featuring a cast of such indie luminaries as Ben Gazzara and Elizabeth Ashley. The film Read More

Blue Moon

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Rita Moreno, Alanna Ubach, Brian Vincent, Shawn Elliott

Synopsis: John Gallagher directs this film about magic and the mystery of love. Frank and Maggie (Ben Gazzara and Rita Moreno) have been married longer than either of them can remember. In an effort to revive the spark in their relationship, Maggie persuades Frank to visit their old cabin up in the Read More

Undertaker's Paradise

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Michael Fitzgerald, Edward Jewesbury

Synopsis: Jim (Ben Gazzara) is a has-been American clarinetist living in Wales who makes a paltry living playing gigs in third-tier seaside towns. When one of his geriatric audience keels over dead from a heart attack, Jim makes the acquaintance of Hugo (Thomas Schmauser), a young German who works for the Read More

Very Mean Men

Actors: Matthew Modine, Martin Landau, Ben Gazzara, Scott Baio, Burt Young

Synopsis: A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving drinks to a tough-looking guy (Martin Landau) he Read More

Illuminata

Actors: John Turturro, Katherine Borowitz, Christopher Walken, Susan Sarandon, Beverly D'Angelo

Synopsis: Actor John Turturro, who made his directorial debut with the Cannes Camera d'Or winner Mac (1992), returned to directing with this period farce about a struggling, turn-of-the-century New York repertory company owned by Astergourd (Beverly D'Angelo) and Pallenchio (Donal McCann). Egotistical Read More

The Thomas Crown Affair

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary, Ben Gazzara, Frankie R. Faison, Fritz Weaver, Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: When a priceless Monet painting is stolen from a leading New York art gallery, the police find themselves wondering which world-class art thief pulled the job. What they don't know is that the thief wasn't a professional, but an amateur. Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) was born poor but made his way Read More

Summer of Sam

Actors: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: In the summer of 1977, a serial killer who called himself Son of Sam (real name David Berkowitz) held New York City in terror as he went on a killing spree, periodically writing letters to New York's media in which he took full responsibility for the murders and made clear that he intended to kill Read More

Believe

Synopsis: Two young friends find themselves immersed in a supernatural mystery after a notorious neighborhood ghost reveals itself to them. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The List

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Mädchen Amick, Ben Gazzara, Roc Lafortune, Catherine Blythe

Synopsis: In this thriller, Judge Richard Miller (Ryan O'Neal) is put in a highly precarious position when he is assigned to preside over the trial of Gabrielle Mitchell (Madchen Amick), a high-priced call girl with an exclusive clientele. Gabrielle, who has arranged her own arrest in order to blackmail Read More

Jack of Hearts

Actors: Nick Mancuso, M. Emmet Walsh, Ben Gazzara, Lucky Vanous

Synopsis: A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of corruption in this thriller. Roy Murcant (Nick Mancuso) is a free-wheeling entrepreneur who has built a multi-million dollar empire on the Las Vegas strip with his own two hands. But not everyone in Read More

Happiness

Actors: Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, Jared Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: After his 1995 breakthrough, Welcome to the Dollhouse, director Todd Solondz was courted by a number of studios to make a big-budget film with top stars. Instead, he chose to make this aggressively dark comedy-drama of perversions and twisted lives. Andy Kornbluth (Jon Lovitz) explodes with anger Read More

Buffalo '66

Actors: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Anjelica Huston, Ben Gazzara, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: Actor Vincent Gallo (The Funeral, Palookaville) made his feature directorial debut with this drama about convict Billy Brown (Gallo), released after half a decade spent behind bars. Drifting into downtown Buffalo, Billy kidnaps teen Layla (Christina Ricci) and has her pose as his loving wife when Read More

The Big Lebowski

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Peter Stormare

Synopsis: The plot of this Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper from the Coen Brothers (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) pivots around a case of mistaken identity complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, sex, pot, and gallons of White Russians (made with fresh cream, please). In Read More

Shark in a Bottle

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Danny Nucci

Synopsis: In this dramatic thriller, a disgruntled postal worker finds himself convicted of a murder he did not commit. He's initially grateful when a security firm arranges for his release, but he's not so happy when he discovers what they have in store for him. His brain is washed, stripping away all Read More

Protector

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Ben Gazzara, Mario Van Peebles, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: A police detective gets in over his head after he falls in love with the moll of a recently murdered gangster. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ladykiller

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Alex McArthur, Terri Treas

Shadow Conspiracy

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Theodore Bikel, Linda Hamilton

Synopsis: Presidential advisor Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is hunted by an unknown assailant in this political thriller. With the help of Chief-of-Staff Jake Conrad (Donald Sutherland) and the newspaper journalist Amanda (Linda Hamilton), he uncovers an assassination plot to kill the President and his Read More

Vicious Circles

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Paul Hipp

Synopsis: In this drama, a drug smuggler makes a devil's bargain with government authorities: she will go undercover to solve the murder of a girl involved in a sex ring in exchange for the release of her incarcerated lover (who is also her half-brother). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Spanish Prisoner

Actors: Sandy Martin, Campbell Scott, Rebecca Pidgeon, Steve Martin, Ricky Jay, Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: Writer-director David Mamet crafted this unusual, Hitchcockian thriller in which no one is who they appear to be. Campbell Scott is Joe Ross, who has just created a "process" that stands to make his company and his boss, Klein (Ben Gazzara), millions of dollars. At a clandestine meeting in the Read More

Stag

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, John Stockwell, Kevin Dillon, Taylor Dayne, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: A group of ten men come together for a bachelor party that goes horribly wrong in this made-for-TV drama. Mario Van Peebles and John Stockwell star as old friends Michael and Victor, both of them successful, well-off young professionals. The latter is about to be married, so Michael throws him a Read More

The Dogfighters

Actors: Robert Davi, Alexander Godunov, Lara Harris, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Rive

Synopsis: Before he was booted out of the military by Pentagon officials, maverick investigator Rowdy Welles (Robert Davi) was a legend in the service. When a Russian mafioso's black market endeavors make him too powerful, the CIA tricks the reluctant Rowdy into becoming an undercover agent. His assignment Read More

Farmer & Chase

Actors: Todd Field, Ben Gazzara, Lara Flynn Boyle, Steven Anthony Jones, Ron Kaell

Synopsis: An aging, violent hold-up artist enlists the aid of his pacifistic son to pull off one final job in this crime melodrama. Farmer, the father, has just lost his long-time partner in a failed Chicago heist. The son, Chase, who has done nothing more criminal than shoplifting, decides to pitch in and Read More

Les Hirondelles ne Meurent pas a Jerusalem

Synopsis: Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama. Richard, a French TV journalist has been assigned to do a political story in Jerusalem the night before Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat sign their peace accord. Richard is glad to go as it gives Read More

Convict Cowboy

Actors: Jon Voight, Kyle Chandler, Marcia Gay Harden, Ben Gazzara, Glenn Plummer

Banditi

Synopsis: When the wife of a former political radical dies after surgery, the man goes over the edge and decides to make society pay for her passing in this Italian crime melodrama. The unhinged widower Amos leaves his job as a watchmaker and begins plotting to punish another ex-radical who sold out and Read More

Parallel Lives

Synopsis: Directed by Linda Yellen, this made-for-cable movie originally aired on the Showtime network and featured a star-studded cast including Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli, and James Belushi. The plot centers around several fraternity and sorority graduates who have decided to regroup at their alma mater. Read More

Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O'Hara Story

Actors: Cynthia Gibb, John Stamos, Ben Gazzara, David Faustino

Synopsis: Alexandra's life becomes a living hell when she discovers the undercover policeman she loves is actually a dangerous serial killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage

Synopsis: Made for television, the two-part, four-hour Love, Honor and Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage is the true story of "mob wife" Rosalie Profaci Bonanno, here played by Nancy McKeon. Inasmuch as the teleplay is based on Ms. Bonanno's memoirs, it is perhaps understandable that she casts herself as an Read More

Lies Before Kisses

Actors: Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: This made-for-TV thriller stars Ben Gazzara as a publishing magnate framed for murdering the call girl with whom he was having an affair. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Blindsided

Actors: Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: Jeff Fahey stars as a former cop who has turned to burglary. Caught in the crossfire of a drug sting, Fahey is blinded. While recuperating in Mexico, he makes the acquaintance of beautiful but secretive Mia Sara. His subsequent romantic fling plunges him into yet another perilous situation. Made Read More

Les Gens d'en Face

Forever

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Eva Grimaldi, Gioia Maria Scola, Corinne Clery, Janet Agren

Synopsis: When Berenice Rondi (Eva Grimaldi) learns of her father's death from a heart attack, she also learns that the police are looking to find his last girlfriend. Before now, she had not imagined that her businessman dad Marcelo (en Gazzara) was much of a womanizer, but as she participates in the Read More

People Like Us

Actors: Dennis Farina, Ben Gazzara, Eva Marie Saint

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Dominick Dunne (who virtually disowned the project the minute it hit the small screen), People Like Us is a 2-part, 4-hour TV movie. Ben Gazzara plays a writer whose daughter has been murdered (much like Dunne himself). Upset that the killer's sentence is all too short, Gazzara Read More

Tikhiy Don

Actors: Natalya Andreichenko, F. Murray Abraham, Rupert Everett, Delphine Forrest, Ben Gazzara

Beyond the Ocean

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Treat Williams, Peter Riegert, Jill Clayburgh, Rebecca Glenn

Synopsis: As nearly as anyone can figure, this first-time directorial effort by the American actor Ben Gazzara was never released in the United States. It was produced in Italy, shot in England, and uses a large cast of big-name American actors. However, reviewers have said that its style owed a bit too Read More

Road House

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara, Marshall Teague

Synopsis: Love, treachery, and broken furniture are the hallmarks of this rollicking action drama. Dalton (Patrick Swayze) has a Ph.D., but rather than make a living teaching Socrates at some university, he's opted to become a top-drawer "cooler" -- an expert barroom bouncer who can break up fights without Read More

Don Bosco

Quicker Than the Eye

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Mary Crosby, Catherine Jarrett, Jean Yanne, Wolfram Berger

Synopsis: In this imaginative Swiss actioner, an expert magician is hired to entertain world leaders at a peace summit. Unfortunately, he finds himself hopelessly entangled in an elaborate terrorist assassination plot. Now, the illusionist must utilize all his best tricks in order to escape and keep them Read More

Secret Obsession

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Julie Christie, Patrick Bruel, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: Long ago, in what seems like another lifetime to him, Paul (Ben Gazzara) had an illegitimate son by a local North African woman. For many years now he has lived in French Algeria with his wife Betty (Julie Christie), an English-born chanteuse. Now on the eve of independence, the dangers of Read More

Police Story: The Freeway Killings

Synopsis: Much of the original cast from the popular television series Police Story reunited for this edgy drama, in which the detectives search for a killer loose on the roads. This entry was one of several TV-movies in the late 1980s to feature the familiar cast in the Police Story format. ~ Bernadette Read More

Control

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kate Nelligan, Ben Gazzara, Kate Reid

Synopsis: Fifteen strangers who have volunteered for an experiment in isolation are forced to deal with an even larger problem in this film from Italian director Giuliano Montaldo. A research group in Germany wants to study the effects of isolation in a nuclear shelter on human subjects and assembles a Read More

Downpayment on Murder

Synopsis: Down payment on Murder is a fact-based TV movie starring Connie Sellecca as a battered wife. For ten years she has been the punching bag of her real-estate agent husband, played with brilliant repugnance by Ben Gazzara. When Connie moves out, Gazzara is convinced that it's because of another man; Read More

Il Camorrista

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Laura del Sol, Leo Gullotta

Synopsis: Gradually picking up dramatic steam as it moves through its 2 1/2 hour running time, this gangster film is loosely based on the career of one of Naples' most sadistic crime bosses, Raffaele Cutolo. Here, the mobster (played by Ben Gazzara) is simply called "The Professor" and is first introduced Read More

Champagne Amer

Actors: Patrick Bruel, Jean Carmet, Julie Christie, Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: Ridha Behi's Champagne Amer (Bitter Champagne) is about a son who carries on an affair with his father's mistress, without realizing the connection that they share. The film is also known as Secret Obsession. Julie Christie and Ben Gazzara co-star. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

La Donna Delle Meraviglie

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Lina Sastri, Claudia Cardinale, Orazio Orlando, Flavio Bucci

Synopsis: In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His Read More

Figlio Mio Infinitamente Caro

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Sergio Rubini, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Temperini, Wanda Pasquini

Synopsis: In a routine drama about teen drug addiction, Antonio Morelli (Ben Gazzara) is a lawyer with good community standing who is overwhelmed when he discovers that his son has a heroin habit. Antonio lets his law practice slide, and he does everything he can to get his son off drugs -- but nothing Read More

An Early Frost

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Sylvia Sidney, John Glover

Synopsis: Originally telecast November 11, 1985, An Early Frost was the first TV movie to deal with the subject of AIDS. Aidan Quinn plays a personable young gay lawyer who is stricken with the HIV virus. As his health deteriorates, Quinn finds that his physical agony is secondary to his mental anguish. Ben Gazzara Read More

A Letter to Three Wives

Synopsis: Made for television, A Letter to Three Wives is a modernized version of the classic 1949 theatrical film of the same name. While on a charity picnic, the wives of three well-to-do men each receive a letter from a fourth woman, a flashy divorcée named Addie (who is never seen). With calculated Read More

Uno Scandalo Perbene

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Giuliana de Sio, Valeria D'Obici

Synopsis: Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea Read More

La Ragazza di Trieste

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: This ineffably bizarre drama stars Ben Gazzara as an American cartoonist who sees a beautiful woman named Nicole (Ornella Muti) being saved from drowning while he draws on the beach. He offers her a blanket, beginning a strange relationship with the obviously unbalanced woman which ends when she Read More

Tales of Ordinary Madness

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell, Tanya Lopert

Synopsis: Ben Gazzara delivers a gutsy, four-barreled performance as skid-row poet and storyteller Charles Bukowski (rechristened Charles Serking onscreen) in Tales of Ordinary Madness, blackly comic Italian director Marco Ferreri's adaptation of Bukowski's roman à clef Erections, Ejaculations Read More

They All Laughed

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Dorothy Stratten, Colleen Camp, John Ritter

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich wrote and directed this quirky romantic comedy that was shelved by Twentieth Century-Fox for a year, until Bogdanovich purchased the film from Fox and tried to distribute it himself, with limited success. Suave John Russo (Ben Gazzara), inept Charles Rutledge (John Ritter), and Read More

A Question of Honor

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Question of Honor was based on Point Blank, a novel by former cop Sonny Grosso and Philip Rosenberg. Ben Gazzara plays Joe DeFalco, a 15-year veteran of the NYPD who'd like to end his career in a blaze of glory. This leads him to act upon a tip intended for another officer, which Read More

Inchon

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: This infamous Korean War drama is best known as the movie produced by Rev. Sung Myung Moon's Unification Church, though more people seem to have read stories about its troubled production or disastrous reception at the box office than to have actually seen it: on its initial release, it grossed Read More

Bloodline

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas, Michelle Phillips, Romy Schneider

Synopsis: Bloodline, a thriller based on a mystery novel by Sidney Sheldon and directed by Terence Young, is the story of Elizabeth Roffe (Audrey Hepburn), who inherits a huge pharmaceutical company and then discovers that some of her family members may be plotting her death in order to gain control of the Read More

Saint Jack

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, Rodney Bewes

Synopsis: After a couple of major studio flops, Peter Bogdanovich returned to his 1960s filmmaking roots with this Roger Corman-produced low budget film. Easygoing expatriate Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara) makes his living in early-1970s Singapore legally and illegally looking after the needs of American and Read More

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald

Synopsis: In a spin off from the actual event of U.S. President Kennedy's assassination, this drama examines what the trial of Lee Harvey Oswald may have been like had he not been shot by Jack Ruby. This made-for-television movie was aired in two parts. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Death of Richie

Actors: Ben Gazzara

Opening Night

Actors: Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart

Synopsis: John Cassavetes' Opening Night stars Gena Rowlands (Mrs. Cassavetes) as end-of-tether Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon. She is about to open in a play written by her old friend Sarah Goode (Joan Blondell), but a series of pre-show setbacks and disasters threaten to destroy not only the production Read More

Richie

Synopsis: This powerful made-for-television drama made a memorable impact on audiences in the late '70s and has earned a cult following as a result. The story focuses on Richie (Robby Benson), a well-meaning but emotionally confused teen who finds it all too easy to turn to drugs when he feels the world Read More

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Azizi Johari, Meade Roberts, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: John Cassavetes takes a contemporary film noir turn (which he would return to in Gloria) after exploring domestic melodrama in A Woman Under the Influence with The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. Ben Gazzara plays Cosmo Vitelli, the owner of a sleazy Los Angeles strip joint, who loses $20,000 Read More

High Velocity

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Britt Ekland, Paul Winfield, Keenan Wynn, Alejandro Rey

Synopsis: Vietnam veterans Baumgartner and Watson (Ben Gazzara and Paul Winfield) are hired to rescue an executive (Keenan Wynn) abducted by Asian guerrillas. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Voyage of the Damned

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers Read More

Columbo: Troubled Waters

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) takes one of his rare vacations in the 90-minute mystery Troubled Waters. Even on a cruise ship, he can't seem to avoid murder. The victim this time is the singer in the ship's band. The top-billed special guest star is Robert Vaughn, so draw your own conclusions. Directed Read More

Capone

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Susan Blakely, Harry Guardino, John Cassavetes, Sylvester Stallone

Synopsis: Ben Gazzara stars in this low-level depiction of legendary gangster Al Capone, who rose to command the mob underworld in 1920's Chicago. Born in Brooklyn, Capone joins his first gang at the age of 11. From there, he graduates to the infamous "Five Points Gang" run by Johnny Torrio (Harry Read More

Indict and Convict

Synopsis: District Attorney Sam Belden (William Shatner) is accused of murdering his wife and lover. Belden claims it was impossible, because he was 150 miles from the murder scene and he can prove it. It is up to prosecutor Bob Mathews (George Grizzard) to blow holes into Belden's alibi -- a difficult and Read More

QB VII

Actors: Leslie Caron, Ben Gazzara, John Gielgud, Juliet Mills, Lee Remick, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: This made-for-TV adaptation of the Leon Uris epic stars Anthony Hopkins as a Polish doctor accused by an American writer (Ben Gazarra) of assisting the Nazis with medical experiments. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Neptune Factor

Actors: Ed McGibbon, Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes, Chris Wiggens

Synopsis: A research facility becomes a death trap, and only an untested Navy vessel can save the day in this adventure drama. A team of scientists led by Hal Hamilton (Michael J. Reynolds) is studying marine life in an underwater research station called Sealab. Shortly before the Sealab crew are scheduled Read More

Maneater

Synopsis: The next time you go on a camping trip, make sure there aren't any wild tigers roaming around. This precaution is not taken by city-bred vacationers Nick and Gloria Baron (Ben Gazzara and Sheree North) and their young friends, Shep (Kip Niven) and Polly (Laurette Spang). Once they've encamped in Read More

You'll Never See Me Again

Actors: David Hartman

Synopsis: A husband (David Hartman) and his wife (Jess Walton) have an argument, and the wife runs out of the house. After searching for quite some time, he cannot find her -- but what he does find is evidence that she has been murdered and more evidence that implicates him as the killer. ~ Brian Gusse, All Read More

Pursuit

Actors: Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: In this thriller, adapted from the novel Binary by John Lange and directed by Michael Crichton, a federal agent played by Ben Gazzara must stop a madman before he can unleash a toxic nerve gas upon an unwitting political convention. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Afyan - Oppio

Actors: Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: No relation to the 1985 film of the same name, The Sicilian Connection was a multinational programmer designed to cash in on the success of The Godfather and The French Connection. Nightclub owner Ben Gazzara becomes involved with drug trafficking. What we know (but the villains don't) is that Gazzara Read More

The Family Rico

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Sal Mineo

Synopsis: Made for television, The Family Rico was adapted from the same Georges Simenon novel that served as the basis of the 1958 Columbia theatrical feature The Brothers Rico. Ben Gazzara plays a powerful mobster put in an embarrassing position by younger brother Sal Mineo. When Mineo refuses to carry Read More

Fireball Forward

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Ricardo Montalban, Anne Francis, Dana Elcar, Edward Binns

Synopsis: Outtakes and stock footage from the 1970 Oscar-winner Patton were utilized to flesh out the made-for-TV Fireball Forward, which was the brainchild of Patton producer Frank McCarthy. Ben Gazzara plays a fictional American general obviously patterned on "Old Blood And Guts". Gazzara suspects that Read More

Division Headquarters

Shattered Silence

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas, Karen Pearson, Larry Reynolds

Synopsis: Michael Douglas made his TV-movie debut in When Michael Calls. The film wastes no time in establishing its premise: the possibility that someone long dead may be trying to communicate with the living. Elizabeth Ashley plays Helen Connelly, who is driven to distraction after receiving several phone Read More

Husbands

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Jenny Runacre, Jenny Wright

Synopsis: John Cassavetes wrote and directed this look at three middle-aged men thrown into a midlife crisis when one of their mutual friends dies. Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie (Peter Falk) and Gus (John Cassavetes) attend the funeral of their buddy David Rowlands (Stuart Jackson); all three are starting to Read More

The Bridge at Remagen

Actors: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: This bleak World War II action drama, directed by John Guillermin, concerns the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen -- the last remaining span across the Rhine into Germany during the final days of the war in 1945. German General von Brock (Peter Van Eyck) is ordered to blow up the bridge rather than let Read More

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 Read More

Rapture at 2:40

Synopsis: In this drama, a lawyer with only a short time left to live, decides to spend his days hobnobbing with the jet-set on the French Riviera. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Rage to Live

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves, Bethel Leslie

Synopsis: This soapy melodrama based on the novel by John O'Hara earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. Suzanne Pleshette stars as Grace Caldwell, a newspaper heiress and nymphomaniac whose numerous dalliances threaten to destroy her wealthy Pennsylvania family's image. Taken on a Read More

A Carol for Another Christmas

Synopsis: Charles Dickens' classic tale A Christmas Carol is revisited yet again in this made-for-television holiday drama. Told with a different twist, in this version, a melancholy father spends his Christmas Day mourning the son he lost in World War II. His holiday grieving is interrupted by the visiting Read More

Arrest and Trial [TV Series]

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Chuck Connors

Convicts Four

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Stuart Whitman, Ray Walston, Vincent Price, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Based on the autobiography of convicted killer John Resko (played here by Ben Gazzara), this routine biographical drama looks at the crucial years between 1931 and 1949 in the convict's life. That period begins when Resko is convicted of killing a store owner and is sentenced to life in prison. Read More

La Città Prigioniera

Actors: David Niven, Lea Massari, Ben Gazzara, Daniela Rocca, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing Read More

The Young Doctors

Actors: Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology department at a big hospital. The aging head of the department, Dr. Joseph Pearson (Fredric March), is insulted and treats the new hire as a rival. They battle over many medical Read More

Risate di Gioia

Synopsis: Also known as The Passionate Thief, this fast-paced crime comedy stars Anna Magnani as the fly in the ointment for a pair of disreputable types. Pickpockets Toto and Ben Gazzara don't want Magnani around while they ply their trade, but she manages to foul up their plans by falling in love with Read More

Anatomy of a Murder

Actors: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention of his alcoholic mentor, Parnell McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell) Read More

You'll Never See Me Again

The Strange One

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Mark Richman, Paul E. Richards, Larry Gates, James Olson, Julie Wilson, George Peppard

Synopsis: In his film debut, Ben Gazzara repeats his stage portrayal of Jocko De Paris, a manipulative psychotic who holds a Southern military school in thrall. With the help of his flunkies, cadets Harold Knoble (Pat Hingle) and Roger Gatt (James Olson), Jocko sadistically terrorizes the underclassmen Read More

I'll Cry Tomorrow

Actors: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor

Synopsis: Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry Tomorrow. In as harshly realistic a manner as possible in the still censor-dominated Hollywood of 1955, the film recounts Roth's rise to fame, her precipitous fall and her Read More