James EdwardsFilmography

The Young Runaways

Actors: Brooke Bundy, Kevin Coughlin, Lloyd Bochner, Patty McCormack, Lynn Bari

Synopsis: Three teenage runaways leave home for life in the big city. Shelly (Brooke Bundy) runs away from her father (Lloyd Bochner), when communication breaks down between the success-minded dad and his daughter. Dewey (Kevin Coughlin) leaves behind life on the farm when his girlfriend suggests she may be Read More

Coogan's Bluff

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff who has been sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman (Don Stroud). On arrival, he's forced to wait by NYPD detective Lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb), who informs him that Ringerman is recovering from a bad Read More

The Sandpiper

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson, Robert Webber

Synopsis: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton -- then Hollywood's most bankable couple -- appeared onscreen together for the third time in this romantic drama shot on beautiful locations along the Big Sur region of the California coastline. Laura Edwards (Elizabeth Taylor) is a free-thinking artist and Read More

The Fugitive: Decision in the Ring

Synopsis: Posing as "Ray Miller", Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) is hired as cut-man for young African American prizefighter Joe Smith (James Edwards). It turns out that Joe had once wanted to be a doctor himself, but gave up his dream, figuring that a black man in the mid-1960s didn't stand a chance of Read More

The Manchurian Candidate

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva

Synopsis: An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes of thought control, political assassination, and multinational conspiracy were hardly common currency in 1962, and while its outlook is sometimes informed by Cold War Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Kentucky Gunslick

Synopsis: In the 12th episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, widower John (Tom Tryon) has finally wed the lovely Viola Howell (Betty Lynn), thus providing a mother for his children Willie (Brian Corcoran) and Addy (Patricia Gorman). En route to register his land claim Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Geronimo's Revenge

Synopsis: In the 13th episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, John (Tom Tryon) finds himself in the uncomfortable position of mediating an argument between his son Willie (Brian Corcoran) and his new bride Viola (Betty Lynn). This domestic disturbance is temporarily Read More

Disneyland: Tales of Texas John Slaughter: Apache Friendship

Synopsis: In the eleventh episode of Walt Disney's 17-part miniseries Tales of Texas John Slaughter, John's children, Willie (Brian Corcoran) and Addy (Patricia Gorman), have at last become accustomed to their new home in Tombstone, AZ. The kids are also anxious for the widowed John (Tom Tryon) to propose Read More

Night of the Quarter Moon

Actors: Julie London, John Drew Barrymore, Nat "King" Cole, Anna Kashfi, Dean Jones

Synopsis: Scripted in another era, the premise for this interesting though conventional drama defending a partially mixed marriage would not be as convincing a few decades later. Chuck Nelson (John Drew Barrymore) is a wealthy young man who travels South of the border and meets and then marries Ginny (Julie London Read More

Blood and Steel

Actors: John Lupton, James Edwards, Brett Halsey, John Brinkley, Allen Jung

Synopsis: In this wartime adventure, four courageous Seabees infiltrate a Japanese-controlled island to find a place to build an air-strip. A beautiful jungle lass helps them navigate the dense forest and blow up an enemy transmitter. The flight back to their boat is not without casualties. ~ Sandra Read More

Pork Chop Hill

Actors: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, George Shibata, James Edwards

Synopsis: Pork Chop Hill was based on the eyewitness essays of ex-soldier S. L. A. Marshall. The film is set during the Korean "police action." While diplomats argue pointlessly over the shape of the negotiation tables at Panmunjon, United Nations troops bleed and die. Lieutenant Gregory Peck leads a Read More

Fraulein

Actors: Dana Wynter, Mel Ferrer, Dolores Michaels, Maggie Hayes, Theodore Bikel

Synopsis: About the only perils that heroine Dana Wynter avoids in Fraulein are being tied to the buzzsaw and chased across the ice by bloodhouds. Wynter plays a German girl of genteel upbringing who is forced to wake up and smell the coffee when her family is killed in a WW2 air raid. She helps American Read More

Anna Lucasta

Actors: Eartha Kitt, Sammy Davis, Jr., Frederick O'Neal, Henry Scott, Rex Ingram

Synopsis: Playwright Philip Yordan stirred up controversy with his 1944 Broadway production Anna Lucasta, the sexy saga of a family of avaricious African-Americans. Such was the notoriety of the play that Columbia Pictures couldn't resist optioning it for a film version. Since this was 1949, Columbia took Read More

Tarzan's Fight for Life

Actors: Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorenson, Jill Jarmyn, James Edwards

Synopsis: Tarzan's Fight for Life was the last "Tarzan" entry to be produced by Sol Lesser, whose association with the series dated back to 1933; thereafter, Sy Weintraub was in charge of the franchise. Gordon Scott makes his third appearance as the Lord of the Jungle, while Eve Brent costars as Jane (a Read More

Men in War

Actors: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine, Vic Morrow, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: Anthony Mann, best known for his intelligent Westerns and hard-boiled crime films, directed this unflinching look at the realities of war set against the backdrop of the Korean conflict. Lt. Mark Benson (Robert Ryan) is the leader of a platoon that has just been given orders to advance to Hill Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Big Switch

Synopsis: Outraged over the infidelity of his girlfriend Goldie (Beverly Michaels), thuggish Sam Donleavy (George Mathews) decides to bump the dame off. Unfortunately, there is a more than somewhat stiff penalty for murder, thus Sam intends to provide himself with an airtight alibi -- and pays a huge price Read More

Battle Hymn

Actors: Rock Hudson, Anna Kashfi, Dan Duryea, Don DeFore, Martha Hyer

Synopsis: Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during World War II, Hess inadvertently releases a bomb which destroys a German orphanage. Tortured by guilt, Hess relocates in Korea after the war to offer Read More

The Killing

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook, Jr., Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen

Synopsis: The Killing was director Stanley Kubrick's first major film effort -- though, like Kubrick's earlier films, it was economically produced with an inexpensive cast. In a variation of his Asphalt Jungle role, Sterling Hayden plays veteran criminal Johnny Clay, planning one last big heist before Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Breakdown

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's second directorial effort for his popular suspense anthology is one of the series' best ever episodes. Joseph Cotten stars as William Callew, a hard-nosed and hard-hearted businessman who holds in contempt such human failings as sentiment, pity, and tears. While racing to keep Read More

Thunder over Sangoland

Synopsis: In this adventure, a renowned American physician journeys to darkest Africa to help a pair of sibling missionaries stop prospectors from inciting a tribal war. The miners do this to scare the white colonists away from their newly discovered mine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Seven Angry Men

Actors: Raymond Massey, Debra Paget, Dennis Weaver, Jeffrey Hunter, Larry Pennell, Leo Gordon

Synopsis: In Seven Angry Men, Raymond Massey stars as controversial 19th-century abolitionist John Brown, a role he'd previously essayed in 1940's Santa Fe Trail. Without glossing over Brown's murderous fanaticism and cold-bloodedness, the film manages to invoke a degree of sympathy for the man, whose Read More

African Manhunt

Synopsis: In this low-budget jungle adventure three people must take a wanted man through the jungle to the coast. Along the way they encounter many ferocious wild animals and face frequent dangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Phenix City Story

Actors: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews, Lenka Peterson

Synopsis: Based on actual events, The Phenix City Story tells the tale of a wide-open "Sin City" in Alabama (across a bridge from Columbus, GA, and just a stone's throw from the Ft. Benning Army base) where gambling, prostitution, and any number of other vices were tolerated openly by the law, most of it Read More

The Caine Mutiny

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, May Wynn

Synopsis: Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly-minted ensign assigned to the destroyer/minesweeper U.S.S. Caine during World War II. Soon after his arrival, the ship gets a new captain, Lt. Comdr. Philip Francis Queeg Humphrey Bogart, a tough, no-nonsense veteran officer who Read More

The Joe Louis Story

Actors: Coley Wallace, Paul Stewart, Hilda Simms, James Edwards, John Marley

Synopsis: Coley Wallace plays the title role in The Joe Louis Story. Told in flashback, the film recounts the pugilistic career of "the Brown Bomber" from the early 1930s to his misguided comeback attempt opposite Rocky Marciano in 1951. The film's high point is Louis' defeat of Germany's Max Schmeling; its Read More

The Member of the Wedding

Actors: Julie Harris, Ethel Waters, Brandon de Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates

Synopsis: 25-year-old Julie Harris convincingly recreates her Broadway role of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams in the 1952 screen version of Carson McCullers' play. Feeling rejected when her older brother goes off on his honeymoon without inviting her along, Frankie runs away from her middle-class Read More

The Steel Helmet

Actors: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Richard Loo, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Sid Melton

Synopsis: Writer and director Samuel Fuller enjoyed his first box-office and critical success with this hard-boiled but human tale of men at war, informed by his own experiences in the armed forces. Zack (Gene Evans) is a gruff U.S. Army sergeant who is the lone survivor of an attack on his outfit in North Read More

Bright Victory

Actors: Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, John Hudson, James Edwards

Synopsis: Arthur Kennedy stars as a blinded war veteran struggling to adjust to his affliction in peacetime. He must overcome his pugnacious attitude towards any problem he can't think his way out of--and he must learn to temper his inbred racial prejudices. Peggy Dow plays the woman who loves Kennedy Read More

The Set-Up

Actors: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the action played out in "real time." Robert Ryan plays Bill "Stoker" Thompson, a washed-up boxer who refuses to give up his career despite the pleas of his wife Julie (Audrey Read More

Home of the Brave

Actors: Frank Lovejoy, Douglas Dick, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Arthur Laurents' play Home of the Brave concerned a paralyzed Jewish war veteran who begins to walk again only when he confronts his fear of forever being an "outsider." The film version of the Laurents play changes the protagonist into an African-American, played by James Edwards. The soldier's Read More