Cornel WildeFilmography

Vultures

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: This peculiar thriller was directed by Paul Leder (I Dismember Mama) and features the husband-wife team of Greg Mullavey and Meredith MacRae, who appeared in several of his films. Another low-budget shocker concerning the murders of a greedy family gathering around the deathbed of a dying man Read More

The Norseman

Actors: Lee Majors, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Jack Elam, Christopher Connelly

Synopsis: When his father does not return from the Norse colony in Vinland (Greenland) for years and years, warrior son Thorvald (Lee Majors) organizes an expedition to find him. He and his co-commander Ragnar (Cornel Wilde) arrive and swiftly discover that King Eurich (Mel Ferrer) and his company were Read More

The 5th Musketeer

Actors: Beau Bridges, Rex Harrison, Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Cornel Wilde, Ian McShane, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: The story in this lavish cinemadaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Man in the Iron Mask remains faithful to the original novel: the right heir to the throne of France is imprisoned in a dungeon by his evil twin brother, his identity kept secret with an uncomfortable iron mask. It's up to the aging Read More

Sharks' Treasure

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Yaphet Kotto, John Neilson, Cliff Osmond, David Canary

Synopsis: When a group of treasure hunters attempt to locate a sunken fortune, they enlist the help of an adventure-hungry fisherman (Cornel Wilde). This film was written, directed, and produced by Cornel Wilde, who has the starring role as well. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Gargoyles

Actors: Scott Glenn, Jennifer Salt

Synopsis: Incorporating themes from horror films of both the '50s and the '70s, this suspenseful TV movie stars Cornel Wilde and Jennifer Salt as an archaeologist and his daughter, who discover a strange skull on display at a roadside tourist trap. After the museum owner is killed during an attack from an Read More

No Blade of Grass

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, Anthony May, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick

Synopsis: Based on a best-selling novel by John Christopher, this combination horror-movie, cautionary tale warns against the dangers of pollution. The tale is set in a futuristic Britain that has been decimated by the sudden onset of a terrible plague caused by environmental damage. Most of the devastation Read More

The Comic

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, Cornel Wilde, Nina Wayne

Synopsis: In The Comic, Dick Van Dyke plays Billy Bright, silent-era film comedian. The opening scene is at his funeral in which his sidekick Cockeye (Mickey Rooney) honors his partner's last request by hitting the preacher in the face with a pie. Van Dyke's voice then narrates the life story of the comic Read More

Beach Red

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn, Burr de Benning, Patrick Wolfe, Jean Wallace

Synopsis: Cornel Wilde produced, directed, and stars in this sincere, hard-edged look at World War II that doesn't flinch from the horrors of battle. The action takes place during a single American campaign to take an island held by the Japanese. Brief flashbacks to civilian life are the only escape from Read More

The Naked Prey

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Gert Van Den Bergh, Ken Gampu, Patrick Mynhardt, Bella Randels, Jose Sithole

Synopsis: In the bush country of South Africa in the late 19th century, chauvinistic hunter Gert vanDen Bergh calculatedly offends a local tribal chief. Given several opportunities, he refuses to apologize. As consequence, vanDen Bergh and the rest of his hunting party are captured by the tribesmen and Read More

Sword of Lancelot

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Aherne, George Baker, Archie Duncan, John Longden

Synopsis: Cornel Wilde co-produces, directs, and stars with his wife Jean Wallace in this uneven version of fabled King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Wilde, a skilled fencer, is Lancelot and appropriately enough, Wallace is his lady-love Guinevere. This time around, their traditionally chaste Read More

Constantine and the Cross

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Christine Kaufmann, Belinda Lee, Elisa Cegani

Synopsis: One of the many Italian sword-and-sandal adventure stories roughly depicting historical events -- sometimes too graphically -- this drama by director Lionello de Felice has its merits. The action moves along at a good clip, as Constantine's (Cornel Wilde) rise to power is depicted, amidst battling Read More

Edge of Eternity

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan, Rian Garrick

Synopsis: A well-dressed older man drives a car along the winding mountain road adjacent to the Grand Canyon. Another man lies in wait for him where the road ends. They fight, and the car and one of the men plunge into the mile-deep gorge. Thus begins a series of four killings that fall into the lap of Read More

Maracaibo

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Abbe Lane, Francis Lederer, Michael Landon

Synopsis: Maracaibo was actor Cornel Wilde's second directorial effort. Wilde casts himself as troubleshooting oil man Vic Scott, who has arrived in Venezuela to help put out a fire at an offshore well. It's a ticklish situation: if Scott fails, not only will he die in the blaze, but all of Maracaibo will Read More

Omar Khayyam

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Raymond Massey, John Derek

Synopsis: Frank Freeman Jr., son of the longtime head of Paramount Pictures, made his debut as producer with the opulent but empty Omar Khayyam. Cornel Wilde stars as the legendary Persian poet, here depicted as not only a philosopher but a scientist, politician and great lover. As the Persians gear up for Read More

The Devil's Hairpin

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Arthur Franz, Mary Astor, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Actor Cornel Wilde branched out into directing with The Devil's Hairpin--reserving the starring role for himself. Wilde plays a motor racing champion who ruins his career through his reprehensible behavior on and off the track. Thrown off the racing circuit in disgrace after crippling his brother Read More

Beyond Mombasa

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn, Ron Randell, Christopher Lee

Synopsis: Hot on the heels of Safari came another Columbia-released, African-filmed adventure, Beyond Mombassa. Matt Campbell (Cornel Wilde) arrives in Kenya on a double quest. He hopes to locate a valuable uranium mine, and also to learn the "whos, whats and whys" of his brother's murder. Joing Campbell's Read More

Hot Blood

Actors: Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia, Mikhail Rasumny

Synopsis: If Hot Blood is remembered at all today, it is for its ludicrous advertising blurb "Jane Russell shakes her tambourines and drives Cornel Wilde!" Set in the gypsy community of contemporary Los Angeles, the film stars Wilde as aspiring dancer Stephen Torino, who is tricked by his brother Marco Luther Adler Read More

Star of India

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Herbert Lom, Yvonne Sanson, John Slater

Synopsis: The roguish smile of Cornel Wilde and the impressive cleavage of Jean Wallace (Mrs. Cornel Wilde) are the principal attractions of the costume swashbuckler Star of India. Wilde plays a 17th-century French nobleman who embarks upon a search for a valuable emerald which has been stolen from a Dutch Read More

The Scarlet Coat

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, Sr., Anne Francis, George Sanders, Robert Douglas

Synopsis: The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably subtle menace by Robert Douglas, while his principal co-conspirator, Major John Andre, is essayed by Michael Wilding. The largely speculative storyline concerns the efforts Read More

The Big Combo

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace, Robert Middleton

Synopsis: Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde) is criticized by his superior Capt. Peterson (Robert Middleton) for his obsessive but fruitless investigation of organized crime boss Mr. Brown (Richard Conte). Peterson calls it a waste of the taxpayers' money motivated by Diamond's love for Brown's Read More

I Love Lucy: The Star Upstairs

Actors: Bob Jellison

Synopsis: Ever on the prowl for Hollywood celebrities, Lucy (Lucille Ball) is thrilled to discover that movie star Cornel Wilde has rented the penthouse suite just above the Ricardos' Beverly Hills hotel room. Determined to catch a closeup glimpse of Wilde, Lucy first disguises herself as a bellboy, then Read More

Storm Fear

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Lee Grant, David Stollery

Synopsis: Much of this gripping crime drama takes place in a remote New England farm house owned by the brother of a bank robber. The crook is mortally wounded during his last heist and suddenly shows up seeking shelter. The brother reluctantly harbors the fugitive and his henchmen. Time passes and the Read More

A Woman's World

Actors: Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl

Synopsis: In this subtle 1954 comedy with feminist overtones, Clifton Webb plays Gifford, an executive with a large automobile manufacturer who is having trouble deciding who to hire as his chief sales manager. His three candidates are equally competent, so he brings their wives with them to New York Read More

Passion

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Cornel Wilde, Raymond Burr, Lon Chaney, Jr., Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta

Synopsis: The winning combination of producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan once more struck box-office gold with Passion. Set in 19th century California, the film stars Cornel Wilde as a young rancher seeking vengeance for the murders of his wife Yvonne de Carlo and his parents. The guilty Read More

Treasure of the Golden Condor

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, Walter Hampden, Anne Bancroft

Synopsis: Treasure of the Golden Condor is a Technicolor remake of 1942's Son of Fury; both films were based on the same novel by Edison Marshall. Cornel Wilde stars in the old Tyrone Power role as Jean-Paul, a Frenchman cheated of his birthright by his duplicitous uncle (George Macready). Retreating to Read More

Saadia

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Rita Gam, Michel Simon, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: Saadia is an MGM-ized version of the Francis D'Autheville novel Echeck au Destin. Produced, directed and written by the always fascinating Albert Lewin (The Moon and Sixpence, Picture of Dorian Gray), the film stars Cornel Wilde as Si Lahssen, the progressive ruler of the Moroccan province of Read More

California Conquest

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Teresa Wright, Alfonso Bedoya, Lisa Ferraday, Eugene Iglesias

Synopsis: California Conquest is set in the early 19th century, when California was fighting for its independence from Mexico--and as such was up for grabs so far as several other nations were concerned. Wealthy landowner Fredo Brios (John Dehner) feverishly opposes all efforts by Californians seeking to Read More

Operation Secret

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter, Karl Malden, Paul Picerni

Synopsis: Loosely based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz, this mystery centers on an American WW II veteran who heroically served as both an officer and a member of the French Foreign Legionnaire. During the war he had been instrumental in assisting in the French Resistance. With such a Read More

The Greatest Show on Earth

Actors: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth is a lavish tribute to circuses, featuring three intertwining plotlines concerning romance and rivalry beneath the big top. DeMille's film includes spectacular action sequences, including a show-stopping train wreck. The Greatest Show on Earth won Read More

At Sword's Point

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Douglas, Gladys Cooper, June Clayworth

Synopsis: At Sword's Point is about the sons of Dumas' Three Musketeers--one of those "sons" being of the female persuasion, played by Maureen O'Hara. As the swash-buckling daughter of Athos, O'Hara joins the offspring of Aramis and Porthos, portrayed respectively by Dan O'Herlihy and Alan Hale Jr., as well Read More

Four Days Leave

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Josette Day, Simone Signoret, Richard Erdman, John Baragrey

Synopsis: Cornell Wilde serves as "box office insurance" in this Swiss-filmed romantic comedy. Wilde plays American sailor Stanley Robin, who while vacationing in Switzerland falls in love with Suzanne (Josette Day), the daughter of a local watchmaker. Their romance is threatened by the arrival of French Read More

Two Flags West

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Linda Darnell, Jeff Chandler, Cornel Wilde, Dale Robertson

Synopsis: Two Flags West is set in the waning days of the Civil War. Colonel Clay Tucker (Joseph Cotten) is one of several Confederate prisoners who agree to fight alongside Union soldiers against the Indians in New Mexico. Tucker's Union commander Kenniston (Jeff Chandler) despises all "Johnny Rebs," Read More

Shockproof

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Patricia Knight, John Baragrey, Esther Minciotti, Howard St. John

Synopsis: Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a convicted murderess paroled in the care of probation officer Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde). What begins as an aloof professional relationship eventually blossoms into romance. Read More

Road House

Actors: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm, Richard Widmark, O.Z. Whitehead

Synopsis: Richard Widmark plays the borderline-psycho owner of a combination road house and bowling alley. Widmark's singer, Ida Lupino, begins exhibiting an interest in his manager, Cornel Wilde. To get even with Wilde, Widmark frames him on a robbery charge, then has the unlucky fellow released in his Read More

The Walls of Jericho

Actors: Art Baker, Griff Barnett, Anne Baxter, Helen Brown, Linda Darnell

Synopsis: The year is 1908 and the setting Jericho, Kansas, a veritable cesspool of sin and vice. Dave Connors is a politically ambitious lawyer married to Belle, the town lush, and is in love with beautiful colleague Julia Norman. Matters are worsened when Algeria Wedge, his best friend's wife, makes a Read More

Forever Amber

Actors: Jane Ball, Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Edmund Breon, Leo G. Carroll, Richard Greene, George Sanders, Robert Coote, Jessica Tandy

Synopsis: They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber actually made it to the screen in 1947 with full censorial approval. Of course, it was necessary to tone down the more erotic passages of Winsor's novel, but the end result Read More

Stairway for a Star

The Homestretch

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara, Glenn Langan, Helen Walker, James Gleason

Synopsis: In this drama, a Bostonian socialite marries the owner of a racehorse and begins a life of globe-trotting from international track to track until her hubby runs out of money. In desperation, he borrows money from an ex-girlfriend who decides that she will not let him leave her again. Meanwhile Read More

It Had to Be You

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde, Percy Waram, Spring Byington, Ron Randell

Synopsis: A precursor of sorts to the 1999 Julia Roberts vehicle The Runaway Bride, It Had to Be You stars Ginger Rogers as Victoria Stafford, a wealthy girl who has been engaged three times, and has three times chickened out at the altar just before saying "I do." Determined to wed her fourth fiancé Read More

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond, Edgar Buchanan, George Macready, Henry Daniell

Synopsis: The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin Hood (Russell Hicks). Robert elects to follow in his father's footsteps when oppression rears its ugly head in the form of a despotic Regent (Henry Daniell) and his partner Read More

Leave Her to Heaven

Actors: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips

Synopsis: Gene Tierney portrays a beautiful but unstable woman who marries successful novelist Cornel Wilde. Tierney wants to spend all her time with her new husband, but finds it impossible to do so thanks to his work and the frequent visits of family and friends. When Wilde's crippled younger brother (Darryl Hickman Read More

Centennial Summer

Actors: Louis Austin, Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Rodney Bell, Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Clancy Cooper, Constance Bennett

Synopsis: Otto Preminger directed this romantic musical (something of a change of pace for the rather serious-minded director) set in Philadephia in 1876. The upcoming Centennial Exposition is the talk of the town, and sisters Julia (Jeanne Crain) and Edith (Linda Darnell) find themselves romantic rivals Read More

A Thousand and One Nights

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens, Dusty Anderson

Synopsis: Thousand and One Nights is an occasionally strident but generally successful satire of the popular Universal Jon Hall/Maria Montez epics. Cornel Wilde stars as a twentyish Aladdin, whose magic lamp yields two genies: Collosus-like Rex Ingram (repeated the role he played in 1940's Thief of Baghdad Read More

A Song to Remember

Actors: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde, Stephen Bekassy, George Coulouris, Nina Foch

Synopsis: One of the most successful filmed biographies of the 1940s, A Song to Remember alleges to be the true story of Polish composer Frederick Chopin. Actually, it has about as much relation to truth as a Heckle and Jeckle cartoon, but with such gorgeous creatures as Cornel Wilde and Merle Oberon in the Read More

Wintertime

Actors: Sonja Henie, Jack Oakie, Cornel Wilde, Cesar Romero, Carole Landis, S.Z. Sakall

Synopsis: In her last 20th Century-Fox vehicle, skating star Sonja Henie plays, Nora, a Norwegian expatriate ice champion. Newly arrived in the U.S., Nora and her millionaire uncle Hjallmar (S. Z. Sakall) are sweet-talked into investing in a failing resort hotel, now a hostelry for showbiz folk. Unemployed Read More

Life Begins at 8:30

Actors: Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Sara Allgood, Melville Cooper

Synopsis: In this drama, a has-been stage thespian finds that his alcoholism is ruining his life. When his daughter, a cripple, attempts to show her concern, he rebuffs her with his cruel, razor sharp witticism. His drinking and cynicism continue to increase, but, through it all, his daughter stands Read More

Manila Calling

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Carole Landis, Cornel Wilde, James Gleason

Synopsis: Those obviously hastily assembled to cash in on current headlines, Manila Calling shows no signs of this haste in its execution. Lloyd Nolan stars as Lucky Mathews, the leader of an American guerilla unit, sworn to keep fighting even after the Japanese invasion of Mindano. Likewise staying on is Read More

Knockout

Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn, Cliff Edwards

Synopsis: In this boxing drama, champion fighter Johnny Rocket decides to leave the ring to please his new bride. Unfortunately, his greedy manager, unwilling to get off the gravy train engineers things so that the fighter cannot find work and must return to the squared circle to make a living. His ploy Read More

High Sierra

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Alan Curtis

Synopsis: In a manner of speaking, Humphrey Bogart had George Raft to thank for his ascendancy to stardom: after all, if Raft hadn't turned down both High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon, Bogart might have continued playing second-billed gangsters to the end of his days. Adapted from W. R. Burnett's novel by Burnett Read More

Kisses for Breakfast

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyatt, Shirley Ross, Lee Patrick, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Kisses for Breakfast is a dumbed-down remake of the 1930 marital comedy The Matrimonial Bed, itself based on a British stage play by Seymour Hicks-which in turn was adapted from a French farce by Yves Mirande and Andre Mouzey-Eon. With that pedigree, it's amazing that this frenetic 1941 Read More

The Perfect Snob

Actors: Charlie Ruggles, Charlotte Greenwood, Lynn Bari, Cornel Wilde, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: Ubiquitous 20th Century-Fox contractee Lynn Bari is the heroine of The Perfect Snob. Carefully raised by her social-climbing mother Martha (Charlotte Greenwood) to seek out a millionaire husband, debutante Chris Mason (Bari) throws herself at wealthy Freddie Browning (Alan Mowbray) during a Read More

The Lady with Red Hair

Actors: Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Laura Hope Crewes, Helen Westley

Synopsis: The notoriously temperamental Miriam Hopkins is ideally cast as equally contentious theatrical prima donna Mrs. Leslie Carter in The Lady With Red Hair. As rapidly paced as any Warner Bros. gangster picture, the film charts Caroline Carter's rise to fame on Broadway through the auspices of Read More