The director of more than fifty films and producer of over 300 more, prolific B-movie maven Roger Corman is profiled in this...
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2011
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Charles
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2010
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2010
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Edward Cole
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2007
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Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the...
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Frank Costello
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2006
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In keeping with the light and slick tones of her earlier film What Women Want, Nancy Meyers writes and directs the romantic...
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Harry Sanborn
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2003
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In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes...
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2003
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A man comes face to face with the rage he didn't know he had in this comedy. Dave Buznick (Adam Sandler) is an even-tempered...
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Dr. Buddy Rydell
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2003
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Warren Schmidt
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2002
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Sean Penn directed this tense drama of loyalty, honor, and obsession, based on a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Jerry Black...
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Jerry Black
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2001
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Stanley Kubrick was one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation, but he was also an intensely...
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2001
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Doug Bruckner hosts this collection of paparazzi footage "Ripped From the Headlines!" Hollywood personalities and stars...
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2001
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The American Film Institute honors actor and director Jack Nicholson for his years in film by granting him a Life Achievement...
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1997
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Melvin Udall
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1997
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This quirky science fiction comedy is a characteristic feature by iconoclastic director Tim Burton, known to moviegoers for...
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Art Land,President Dale
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1996
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Alex Gates
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1996
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1996
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Sean Penn wrote and directed this tale of loss, guilt, and revenge. The daughter of Freddy and Mary Gale (Jack Nicholson and...
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Freddy Gale
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1995
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Will Randall
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1994
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The life of powerful union leader Jimmy Hoffa is the subject of this biographical drama. The focus is strongly on Hoffa's...
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James R. Hoffa
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1992
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In this military courtroom drama based on the play by Aaron Sorkin, Navy lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is assigned to...
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Col. Nathan R. Jessep
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1992
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Harry Bliss
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1992
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Actor Jack Nicholson is profiled in this video. Learn about his exciting career from his early horror films to his latest big...
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1991
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1991
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The Two Jakes is the much-delayed and rather convoluted sequel to the 1975 classic Chinatown. Released in 1990 after an...
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Director, Jake Gittes
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1990
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Behind the black cowl, Gotham City superhero Batman is really millionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton), who...
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Joker/Jack Napier
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1989
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1988
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Francis Phelan
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1987
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Writer/director/producer James L. Brooks scores on all counts with this clear-eyed look at the television news business and...
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Bill Rorich
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1987
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The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three...
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Daryl Van Horne
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1987
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Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "Ã clef"...
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Mark
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1986
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Narrator
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1985
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Richard Condon's delicious black comedy was lovingly translated to the screen by legendary director John Huston in one of his...
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Charley Partanna
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1985
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Terms of Endearment covers three decades in the lives of widow Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter Emma...
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Garrett Breedlove
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1983
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Charlie
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1982
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Frank Chambers
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1981
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Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed...
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Eugene O'Neill
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1981
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"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980 adaptation of...
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Jack Torrance
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1980
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Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia...
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Director, Henry Moon
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1978
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A rancher, a rustler, and a regulator face off in Arthur Penn's eccentric western. As a cover for their horse thievery, a...
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Tom Logan
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1976
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Brimmer
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1976
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David Locke
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1975
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Three's a crowd in Mike Nichols's period caper comedy -- or is it? To dodge the 1920s Mann Act barring the transport of women...
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Oscar
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1975
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Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who retreats into himself after the death of his father. His mother,...
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Specialist
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1975
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With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a...
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Randle Patrick McMurphy
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1975
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"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston),...
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J.J. Gittes
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1974
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Two Navy "lifers" and one military innocent briefly attempt to thumb their nose at Authority in Hal Ashby's The Last Detail...
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Buddusky SM I
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1973
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Dreams die hard in wintry Atlantic City in Bob Rafelson's downbeat character drama. Depressive deejay David Staebler...
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David Staebler
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1972
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Jack Nicholson first put his well-documented enthusiasm for basketball to good use in this film, which he wrote and directed...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1971
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A Safe Place, writer/director Henry Jaglom's feature film debut, is a time-fractured, hallucinatory fantasy, featuring...
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Mitch
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1971
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"Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love." With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer,...
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Jonathan
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1971
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Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this...
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1970
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A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist...
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Robert Eroica Dupea
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1970
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One man must take on a band of roving outlaws in this Harley-fueled variation on High Noon. Paul Collier (Cameron Mitchell)...
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Rebel
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1969
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Tossing wristwatches away, two bikers hit the road to find America in Dennis Hopper's anti-establishment classic. After a...
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George
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1969
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1968
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Stoney
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1968
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Producer, Billy Spear
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1967
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A bunch of hairy guys on Harleys are causing trouble again in this, one of the best-remembered examples of the biker flicks...
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Poet
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1967
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Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay...
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Screenwriter
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1967
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A pre-superstardom Jack Nicholson appears as Marvin Jenkins, who has been charged with burglary and put on trial. Eleven of...
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Marvin Jenkins
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1967
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Schlockmeister Roger Corman produced this graphically violent chronicle of the Chicago gangster wars of the 1920s and the...
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1967
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Producer, Screenwriter, Wes
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1967
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Opie and his friend Anold (Sheldon Golomb) find an abandoned baby. Hoping to save the child from an orphanage, the boys try...
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1966
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This adventure is set in the Philippines and chronicles the exploits of two men who survive a plane crash in the jungle. One...
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Screenwriter
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1966
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The crew of the USS Reluctant is at it again in this comedy sequel to Mister Roberts. The story opens toward the end of WWII...
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1964
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In this WW II actioner, three soldiers are assigned to gather desperately needed information about Japanese occupation in...
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1964
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Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales,...
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1963
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In this horror chiller, an intriguing, beautiful woman (Sandra Knight) keeps re-appearing to early 19th-century Lt. Duvalier...
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Lt. Andre Duvalier
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1963
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In this drama, a hit man is hired by a group of South American nationalists to kill their exiled ruler in his new Caribbean...
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Screenwriter
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1963
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In this western, a notorious gunfighter's son is captured by a ruthless, bullying sheriff. He manages to escape and get...
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1962
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Based on author James T. Farrell's trilogy written between 1932 and 1935 and later combined into a one-volume Studs Lonigan...
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Weary Reilly
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1960
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Perhaps the greatest movie ever shot in two days, Little Shop of Horrors was originally conceived as a followup to...
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1960
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Filmmaker Richard Rush made his directorial debut with this low-budget drama about the danger of teenage romance and juvenile...
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Buddy
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1960
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1960
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This odd drama features Jack Nicholson, then only 21-years old, in his first feature film. He plays a young delinquent who...
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Jimmy
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1958
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