Cast: Richard Widmark

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Richard Widmark. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Madigan

1968 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Richard Widmark · Henry Fonda · Inger Stevens · Harry Guardino

Plot Adapted from Richard Dougherty's THE COMMISSIONER, MADIGAN stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York detective in this warmup for Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. Joined by his partner Rocco Bonaro...

6.7

1K votes

6.7

1K votes

The Law and Jake Wade

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Robert Taylor · Richard Widmark · Patricia Owens · Robert Middleton

Plot Jake Wade breaks Cling Hollister out of jail to pay off an old debt, though it's clear there is some pretty deep hostility between them. They part, and Jake returns...

6.7

933 votes

6.7

933 votes

The Bedford Incident

1965 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James B. Harris

Cast Richard Widmark · Sidney Poitier · James MacArthur · Martin Balsam

Plot An American news writer assigned to interview the captain of the destroyer USS Bedford bears witness to a stunning game of cat and mouse in the frigid waters of the...

6.6

352 votes

6.6

352 votes

The Alamo

1960 · Movie · 161 min. · United States

Direction John Wayne

Cast John Wayne · Richard Widmark · Laurence Harvey · Ken Curtis

Plot THE ALAMO is John's Wayne's patriotic, pro-American recounting of the famous siege at a Texas fort. For 13 days in 1836, a group of Americans, led by Sam Houston, fought...

6.6

4K votes

6.6

4K votes

Garden of Evil

1954 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast Gary Cooper · Susan Hayward · Richard Widmark · Hugh Marlowe

Plot A trio of American adventurers marooned in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband trapped in a cave in Apache territory.

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Don't Bother to Knock

1952 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

6.5

945 votes

6.5

945 votes

Alvarez Kelly

1966 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast William Holden · Richard Widmark · Janice Rule · Patrick O'Neal

Plot Suave Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly has little interest in the Civil War except to make some money. But after a long drive to deliver cattle to the Unionists he finds...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Trap

1959 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Norman Panama

Cast Richard Widmark · Lee J. Cobb · Tina Louise · Earl Holliman

Plot Lawyer Ralph Anderson arrives in Tula, an amazingly remote town in the desert, as reluctant emissary of mob chief Victor Massonetti, who wants the airstrip clear for his unofficial exit...

6.4

76 votes

6.4

76 votes

The Cobweb

1955 · Movie · 134 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Richard Widmark · Lauren Bacall · Charles Boyer · Gloria Grahame

Plot At an exclusive psychiatric clinic, the doctors and staff are about as crazy as the patients. The clinic head, Dr. Stewart McIver, thinks that it would be good therapy for...

6.4

401 votes

6.4

401 votes

Backlash

1956 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Richard Widmark · Donna Reed · William Campbell · John McIntire

Plot Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared...

6.4

609 votes

6.4

609 votes

Coma

1978 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Michael Crichton

Cast Michael Douglas · Geneviève Bujold · Richard Widmark · Ed Harris

Plot Something is awry at Boston General Hospital. Dr. Wheeler's (Genevieve Bujold) friend Nancy goes in for a routine procedure, but never comes out of the anesthesia and slips into a...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

Saint Joan

1957 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Jean Seberg · Richard Widmark · John Gielgud · Richard Todd

Plot Graham Greene wrote the screenplay based on George Bernard Shaw's drama, and Jean Seberg made her screen debut as Joan of Arc. With a superb performance by John Gielgud as...

6.3

375 votes

6.3

375 votes

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend

1987 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

6.1

63 votes

6.1

63 votes

The Way West

1967 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast Kirk Douglas · Robert Mitchum · Richard Widmark · Lola Albright

Plot Missouri 1843: ex-senator Tudlock (Kirk Douglas) and scout Summers (Robert Mitchum) lead a trek of settlers to Oregon, through more than 2500 kilometers of mostly Indian territory. Tadlock drives his...

6.1

917 votes

6.1

917 votes

Slattery's Hurricane

1949 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

6.0

63 votes

6.0

63 votes

The Secret Ways

1961 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Phil Karlson · Richard Widmark

Cast Richard Widmark · Sonja Ziemann · Charles Régnier · Walter Rilla

Plot Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's...

6.0

41 votes

6.0

41 votes

Death of a Gunfighter

1969 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel · Robert Totten

Cast Richard Widmark · Lena Horne · Carroll O'Connor · David Opatoshu

Plot In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in...

6.0

461 votes

6.0

461 votes

When the Legends Die

1972 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Millar

Cast Richard Widmark · Frederic Forrest · Luana Anders · Vito Scotti

Plot A young, rebellious Ute Indian joins the rodeo circuit and falls in with a drunken mentor who teaches him the ways of the ring and the world.

6.0

58 votes

6.0

58 votes

Twilight's Last Gleaming

1977 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Charles Durning · Melvyn Douglas

Plot A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President revels...

5.9

602 votes

5.9

602 votes

The Frogmen

1951 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Richard Widmark · Dana Andrews · Gary Merrill · Jeffrey Hunter

Plot World War II drama in which Richard Widmark, as Lt. Cmdr. John Lawrence, replaces the popular commanding officer of a group of underwater demolition divers. a crew of fiercely independent...

5.9

131 votes

5.9

131 votes