Ed Begley, Sr.Filmography

The Other Kind of a Spy

Synopsis: In this drama, industrial espionage is discovered after a chemical plant blows up. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dunwich Horror

Actors: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sr., Sam Jaffe, Donna Baccala

Synopsis: With a style and tone that wreaks of the late '60s, this cheap-looking adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story plays like an obvious reference to the battle between the establishment and the counterculture. The film stars Dean Stockwell as Wilbur Whateley, a brooding young man who makes a connection Read More

The Secrets of the Pirates' Inn

Actors: Ed Begley, Sr., Charles Aidman

Synopsis: Secret of the Pirate's Inn stars Ed Begley in one of his last roles, playing a retired Irish sea captain. Three kids (Jimmy Bracken, Annie McEveety, Patrick Creamer), try to help the old salt locate the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte. A reporter (Charles Aidman) tags along, ostensibly to get Read More

The Monitors

Actors: Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Avery Schreiber, Sherry Jackson, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis: Featuring members of Chicago's distinguished Second City comedy troupe, this way-out sci-fi comedy tells the tale of a failed alien invasion. The basically friendly Monitors have come to Earth to take over and force humans to clean up their acts by forbidding them to engage in politics, violence Read More

The Silent Gun

Actors: Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: The Silent Gun refers to the weapon no longer toted by Westerner Lloyd Bridges. Once a notorious gunfighter, Bridges has vowed never to shoot again after nearly killing a little girl. Thus, when faced with evil town boss Pernell Roberts, Bridges must rely on his wits to come out on top. This Read More

The Violent Enemy

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama set in war-torn Ireland, IRA terrorists conspire to blow up a British power station. Fortunately, a British supporter escapes from captivity and is able to stop them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Firecreek

Actors: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Ed Begley, Sr., James Best, Brooke Bundy, Harry "Slim" Duncan, Jack Elam, Gary Lockwood

Synopsis: Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda headline this western in which an old lawman (Stewart) attempts to keep his town safe from a band of recent returnees from the Missouri range wars and their villainous leader (Fonda), who threaten to destroy it with their drunken revelry. The old sheriff usually Read More

A Time to Sing

Actors: Hank Williams, Jr., Shelley Fabares, Ed Begley, Sr., Charles Robinson, D'Urville Martin

Synopsis: This musical chronicles the rise to fame of C&W singer Grady Dodd (Hank Williams Jr.). The tale begins as the talented young man defies the uncle who raised him and tries to break into the music business. As a result of the conflict, the boy learns that his mother, whom he doesn't remember, was a Read More

Lola in Lipstick

Synopsis: While in Rome, publisher Glenn Howard finds corruption, illicit romance and narcotics at every turn. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Wild in the Streets

Actors: Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones, Diane Varsi, Ed Begley, Sr., Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: A rock star decides he'd rather rule the free world than just sell records in this ambitious fusion of political satire and teen exploitation. Teenage rebel Max Flatow (Christopher Jones) has grown tired of life in suburbia with his domineering mother (Shelley Winters) and weak-willed father (Bert Freed Read More

Hang 'Em High

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Sr., Pat Hingle, Arlene Golonka

Synopsis: Ex-lawman turned rancher Jed Cooper (Clint Eastwood) is moving a small herd of cattle when a group of nine men on horseback, led by Captain Wilson (Ed Begley Sr.), ride up and accuse him of having stolen the cattle and killed their owner. Refusing to believe his account, they string him up by the Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 11: Labyrinth

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Billion Dollar Brain

Actors: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Françoise Dorléac, Oscar Homolka, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), the reluctant secret agent from The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966) -- both (like the source for this movie) based on novels by Len Deighton -- is back again in Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain. Having left Britain's espionage service, Palmer is Read More

Warning Shot

Actors: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Sr., Keenan Wynn, Sam Wanamaker, Lillian Gish

Synopsis: LAPD detective Sgt. Tom Valens (David Janssen) is a ten-year veteran of the force who has had more than his share of hard luck lately -- his marriage is a wreck, and he hasn't fully recovered from a serious wound suffered in the line of duty a year ago. He and his partner, Sgt. Ed Musso (Keenan Wynn Read More

The F.B.I.: The Sacrifice

Synopsis: In Southern California, Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and Rhodes (Stephen Brooks) go undercover as missile-plant works to plug up a security leak and capture an enemy spy. The situation becomes even more precarious when the Communist higher-ups arrange the "accidental" demise of one of their own Read More

Bonanza: A Time to Step Down

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ed Begley, Sr., Audrey Totter

Synopsis: Ed Begley Sr. makes a return visit to Bonanza in the role of proud old Ponderosa wrangler Dan Tolliver. Sensing that Dan is getting too old for his work, Ben Cartwright arranges for the stubborn ranchhand to take on an easier job. Infuriated, Dan quits the Ponderosa and falls in with two outlaws Read More

The Oscar

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: A heartless actor scrambles to the top of show business' sleazy summit in this drama. Frank Fane (Stephen Boyd) is a Hollywood leading man who is desperate to boost his career by winning an Academy Award, and he doesn't care who he has to betray to achieve his goals -- including his former best Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy, the Bean Queen

Actors: Ed Begley, Sr., Mary Jane Croft, Richard Jury, Joseph Mell, John Perry

Synopsis: In desperate need of money for new furniture, Lucy (Lucille Ball) and Mary Jane (Mary Jane Croft) attempt to take advantage of an advertising campaign created by Col. Andrew Bailey (Ed Begley), aka "The Bean King." Succeeding at getting double her money back on a can of Colonel Bailey's Bean, Lucy Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Case of the Pillow

Synopsis: Rob (Dick Van Dyke) thinks he's been ripped off when Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) purchases four costly "eider down" pillows from a guy named Lawrence Wiley (Alvy Moore). Our hero's suspicions are confirmed when he concludes that the pillows are actually stuffed with cheap chicken feathers. When Wiley Read More

Bonanza: The Other Son

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ed Begley, Sr., Tom Simcox

Synopsis: Ed Begley Sr. is cast as Clint Watson, an old muleskinner friend of Ben Cartwright. Now an explosives expert, Clint agrees to help Ben transport a shipment of nitroglycerin to a flood site, with Clint's sons Andy (Tom Simcox) and Ellis (Richard Evans) providing assistance. What begins as a western Read More

The Fugitive: Runner in the Dark

Synopsis: When a TV fan recognizes a picture of Richard Kimble (David Janssen) on a quiz show, the fugitive takes refuge in a home for the blind. Posing as "Phil Meade", Kimble quickly acquaints himself several of the residents, including the attractive Claire Whittaker (Diana Van Der Vlis) and embittered Read More

The Fugitive: Man in a Chariot

Synopsis: Wrongfully accused of murder, Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) continues his search for the "One-Armed Man" who can prove his innocence, while the relentless Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) steps up his efforts to recapture Kimble and deliver him to Death Row, as The Fugitive launches its second Read More

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Sr., Jack Kruschen, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: Meredith Willson's second Broadway hit (the first and biggest was The Music Man) proved a lucrative vehicle for the equally unsinkable Debbie Reynolds. Based on a true story, the film casts Debbie as hoydenish Molly Brown, who wangles her way into Denver High Society when she marries "overnight Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Triumph

Actors: Ed Begley, Sr., Jeanette Nolan, Tom Simcox, Maggie Pierce

Synopsis: The scene is India, where elderly, incompetent medical missionary Brother Thomas Fitzgibbon (Ed Begley) is on the verge of being replaced by his younger, more qualified assistant, Brother John Sprague (Tom Simcox). This does not rest well with Brother Thomas' wife, Mary (Jeanette Nolan), who is Read More

Sweet Bird of Youth

Actors: Paul Newman, Geraldine Page, Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Sr., Rip Torn

Synopsis: Paul Newman recreates his Broadway role in the 1962 film version of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Newman plays handsome hustler Chance Wayne, who romances fading film star Alexandra Del Lago (Geraldine Page) in hopes of winning a movie contract for himself. The mercenary Wayne and the Read More

The Green Helmet

Actors: Bill Travers, Ed Begley, Sr., Sidney James, Nancy Walters, Ursula Jeans

Synopsis: In this fast-paced actioner, an aging race-car driver finds that he is losing his competitive edge. He tries racing under the sponsorship of an American tire company. He soon falls in love with the sponsor's daughter who pleads with him to stop driving. Adding more pressure to the man's life is Read More

Odds Against Tomorrow

Actors: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Sr., Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop who has been kicked off the force for refusing to inform on his colleagues to the State Crime Committee. Short on money, the former policeman jumps to the other side Read More

No Time for Sergeants

Actors: Andy Griffith, Nick Adams, Myron McCormick, Murray Hamilton, Howard I. Smith

Synopsis: Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer Andy Griffith as bumptious Air Force draftee Will Stockdale. This TV version was soon afterward transformed into a Broadway play, and then a movie, again with Griffith in the lead. Read More

12 Angry Men

Actors: John Fiedler, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Sr., E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Robert Webber

Synopsis: A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Eleven of the jurors vote for conviction, each for reasons of his Read More

Patterns

Actors: Van Heflin, Ed Begley, Sr., Everett Sloane, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: Rod Serling's incisive "gray flannel suit" TV drama created such a sensation when Kraft Television Theatre first aired it live on January 11, 1955 that, in an unprecedented move, it was repeated four weeks later, on February 9, again live. Richard Kiley starred as Fred Staples, a bright young man Read More

Philco Television Playhouse: "Ernie Barger Is 50"

Synopsis: In this rare kinescope from the early years of the long-running dramatic anthology Philco Television Playhouse, Ed Begley Sr. stars as Ernie Barger, the bombastic, conservative but withal likeable co-owner of a successful dinner-plate manufacturing firm. Having spent his life imposing his will on Read More

The Turning Point

Actors: William Holden, Edmond O'Brien, Alexis Smith, Tom Tully, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: Edmond O'Brien stars as an idealistic state's attorney assigned to crack down on a crime syndicate. This proves more dangerous than first suspected, since the syndicate has a number of city officials in its pocket--including the father of one of the investigating committee's chairpersons. William Holden Read More

What Price Glory?

Actors: James Cagney, Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, William Demarest, Craig Hill, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after being told that the old property was being converted into a musical. By the time Cagney learned that Fox had no intention of adding songs and dances to the venerable Maxwell Anderson Read More

Deadline U.S.A.

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Sr., Warren Stevens

Synopsis: An abundance of subplots are expertly woven together by screenwriter/director Richard Brooks in Deadline - USA. Humphrey Bogart stars as crusading editor Ed Hutcheson, whose newspaper is on the verge of closing thanks to the machinations of the mercenary daughter (Audrey Christie) of Mrs. Garrison Read More

Boots Malone

Actors: William Holden, John Stewart, Stanley Clements, Basil Ruysdael, Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis: William Holden plays Boots Malone, a dishonest--and impoverished--jockey's agent. Malone sees a chance to crack the big time through the talents of young jockey John Stewart. Stewart's wealthy mother wants to remove the boy from the rarefied world of the race track, but it is Malone himself who Read More

You're in the Navy Now

Actors: Gary Cooper, Jane Greer, Millard Mitchell, Eddie Albert, John McIntire

Synopsis: Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine story. Cooper plays Lieutenant John Harkness, a wet-behind-the ears naval lieutenant who is given command of his first ship. Unfortunately, not only is Harkness new to Read More

On Dangerous Ground

Actors: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper, Anthony Ross

Synopsis: Robert Ryan plays Jim Wilson, a tough police detective embittered by years of dealing with low-life urban scum, in Nicholas Ray's moving film noir. After severely beating several suspects, Jim is assigned to a case far from the city to find the killer of a young girl. Joining the manhunt, in Read More

Lone Star

Actors: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi

Synopsis: During the 1845 battle for Texas' independence, a cattle baron (Clark Gable) spars with an evil senator (Broderick Crawford) over the state's future and for the affections of newpaperwoman Ava Gardner. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lady from Texas

Actors: Howard Duff, Mona Freeman, Josephine Hull, Gene Lockhart, Craig Stevens

Synopsis: Mona Freeman plays Bonnie Lee, who is--surprise!--not the Lady from Texas in this well-constructed Universal western. A lowly kitchen helper at a large ranch, Bonnie seeks the aid of self-styled do-gooder Dan Mason (Howard Duff). It seems that Bonnie's elderly friend Miss Birdie (Josephine Hull) Read More

Backfire

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Gordon MacRae, Edmond O'Brien, Dane Clark, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey (Gordon MacRae) goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly (Edmond O'Brien). A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a trumped-up murder rap, and Corey hopes to clear his pal. Tagging along is Army nurse Julie Benson (Virginia Mayo Read More

Convicted

Actors: Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone, Ed Begley, Sr., Carl Benton Reid

Synopsis: Convicted stars Glenn Ford as a hotheaded young man convicted of manslaughter. Broderick Crawford plays a sympathetic warden (formerly a tough DA) who tries to help Ford adjust to prison life, eventually giving the lad responsibilities in the warden's office. Ford witnesses the killing of a Read More

Dark City

Actors: Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott, Viveca Lindfors, Dean Jagger, Don DeFore

Synopsis: Though he had previously appeared in David Bradley's film adaptation of Julius Caesar, Dark City marked Charlton Heston's first role in a major Hollywood production. Danny (Heston) and his pals Augie (Jack Webb), Soldier (Henry Morgan), and Barney (Ed Begley Sr.) set up a poker game to take Arthur Read More

Saddle Tramp

Actors: Joel McCrea, Wanda Hendrix, John Russell, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: Joel McCrea was still relatively new to westerns when he starred in Saddle Tramp. McCrea is cast as footloose and fancy free cowpoke Chuck Connor, who has no intention of settling down. Alas, this decision is made for him when Connor "inherits" the four recently orphaned sons of his best friend. Read More

Wyoming Mail

Actors: Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Howard Da Silva, Ed Begley, Sr., Dan Riss

Synopsis: Wyoming Mail stars Stephen McNally as frontier postal inspector Steve Davis. Assigned to break up a gang of outlaws who prey upon mail trains, Davis goes undercover, posing first as a fugitive from justice. Joining the bandit gang run by the ruthless Cavanaugh (Howard da Silva), Davis discovers Read More

Stars in My Crown

Actors: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Lewis Stone

Synopsis: Stars in My Crown is an episodic movie about a rural Southern community in the 19th century. Though the film features a number of characters, it focuses on a preacher who moves into the city and helps solve the town's problems. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Tulsa

Actors: Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Lloyd Gough, Chill Wills

Synopsis: Tulsa was, in 1949, the most elaborate production released to date by the Eagle-Lion corporation-though all evidence, especially the technical credits, suggests that the film was put together at Universal-International, then merely distriibuted by Eagle-Lion (who made a fortune at the box office). Read More

The Great Gatsby

Actors: Alan Ladd, Betty Field, MacDonald Carey, Ruth Hussey, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: This second film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's definitive jazz-age novel The Great Gatsby stars Alan Ladd in the title role. Jay Gatsby, formerly Jake Gatz, is a successful bootlegger with aspirations of being accepted in the highest social circles of Long Island. Once he's done this, Gatsby Read More

It Happens Every Spring

Actors: Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Ed Begley, Sr., Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: Lloyd Bacon's baseball comedy stars Ray Milland as Vernon Simpson, a chemist who develops a product which repels wood. Signing on with a major league team as a pitcher, he throws screwballs doctored with his solution, becoming a sensation who strikes out every batter he faces. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

Deep Waters

Actors: Dana Andrews, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Dean Stockwell, Anne Revere

Synopsis: In this drama, filmed on location in Maine, the life of a young lobster fisherman is forever changed by an orphan boy. It was the fisherman's girlfriend that got him involved with the troubled lad who had been caught stealing while in a foster home. The fisherman was to provide a good role-model Read More

Sitting Pretty

Actors: Robert Young, Maureen O'Hara, Charles Arnt, Clifton Webb, Ken Christy, Richard Haydn, Ed Begley, Sr., Mary Field, Louise Allbritton

Synopsis: Clifton Webb has the role of a lifetime as Lynn Belvedere, self-styled genius and expert on everything. Belvedere accepts the job of baby-sitting the troublesome children of Robert Young and Maureen O'Hara; he wins the job by calmly dumping a bowl of cold oatmeal on the head of the couple's most Read More

The Street with No Name

Actors: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, John McIntire, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: FBI operative Mark Stevens is dispatched by his boss Lloyd Nolan to infiltrate a criminal gang. Stevens ingratiates himself with Richard Widmark, the gang's leader, then helps concoct a robbery that will deliver the criminals into the hands of the authorities. But there's an informant in the Read More

Sorry, Wrong Number

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: When Lucille Fletcher took on the challenge of expanding her classic 30-minute radio suspenser Sorry, Wrong Number into an 89-minute feature film, she opted on the Citizen Kane approach, filling the plotline to the brim with revelatory flashbacks. Barbara Stanwyck stars as bedridden hypochondriac Read More

Big Town

Actors: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, Byron Barr, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: Big Town was the first of a series of Pine-Thomas productions inspired by the radio series of the same name--which in turn was spun off into a long-running TV series. Philip Reed stars as crusading newspaper editor Steve Wilson, while Hillary Brooke portrays Wilson's ever-loving, ever-efficient Read More

The Web

Actors: Ella Raines, Edmond O'Brien, William Bendix, Vincent Price, Maria Palmer

Synopsis: Bob Regan (Edmond O'Brien) -- a small-time attorney from the wrong side of the tracks who nonetheless has a lot of dedication -- is representing a vegetable pushcart owner (Tito Vuolo) in a damage suit against multi-millionaire Andrew Colby (Vincent Price). It seems Colby's car wrecked the man's Read More

The Roosevelt Story

Actors: Ken Lynch, Canada Lee, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: Supervised by Elliot Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Story is an odd, dogmatic combination of newsreel footage and low-key dramatizations. Opening with the funeral of President Franklin Roosevelt in April of 1945, the film flashes back to Roosevelt's privileged childhood, his marriage to cousin Eleanor Read More

Boomerang!

Actors: Dana Andrews, E.J. Ballantine, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Royal Beal, Ed Begley, Sr., Arthur Kennedy, Cara Williams, Karl Malden, Wryley Birch

Synopsis: Boomerang, directed by Elia Kazan, is a chilling film noir, the true story about the murder of a priest, the subsequent arrest and trial of a jobless drifter, and the efforts of young state's attorney Henry Harvey (Dana Andrews) to uncover the truth. Closely based on the actual 1924 murder of Fr. Read More