Cast: Ken Howard

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


The Judge

2014 · Movie · 141 min. · United States

Direction David Dobkin

Cast Robert Downey Jr. · Robert Duvall · Vera Farmiga · Billy Bob Thornton

Synopsis Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) is a successful lawyer who returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father (Robert Duvall), the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He will try to find the...

6.5

16K votes

6.5

16K votes

Michael Clayton

2007 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Tony Gilroy

Cast George Clooney · Tom Wilkinson · Tilda Swinton · Sydney Pollack

Synopsis Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. At the behest of the firm’s co-founder Marty Bach, Clayton, a former prosecutor from a family of cops, takes care of...

6.3

21K votes

6.3

21K votes

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Liza Minnelli · Ken Howard · Robert Moore · James Coco

Synopsis Junie Moon's face has been disfigured by ill-gotten burns, and depends on her friends and her wit to cope. She, Warren, and Arthur leave the hospital - they yearn for independence - and find a house to live in. Together...

6.2

193 votes

6.2

193 votes

1776

1972 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Peter H. Hunt

Cast William Daniels · Howard Da Silva · Ken Howard · Donald Madden

Synopsis 1776 is an acclaimed film version of Peter Stone's 1969 Tony Award for Best Musical. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence...

6.1

38 votes

6.1

38 votes

Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Peter S. Fischer · Richard Levinson · William Link · Anthony Pullen Shaw

Cast Angela Lansbury · William Windom · Ron Masak · Louis Herthum

Synopsis TV Series (1984-1996). 12 Seasons. 264 Episodes. Former substitute English teacher and famed mystery writer Jessica Fletcher has a gift for solving mysteries. You see, it seems murder follows her around, whether it be to the houses of her seemingly...

6.0

11K votes

6.0

11K votes

The Thorn Birds (TV Miniseries)

1983 · Series · 477 min. · United States

Direction Daryl Duke

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Rachel Ward · Barbara Stanwyck · Christopher Plummer

Synopsis Adapted from the bestselling novel by Colleen McCullough, the production stars Richard Chamberlain as an ambitious Catholic priest named Ralph de Bricassart, whose life in Australia between 1920 and 1962 is one long torment as he pines for his lover,...

5.7

3K votes

5.7

3K votes

Rambo

2008 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Sylvester Stallone

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Julie Benz · Matthew Marsden · Graham McTavish

Synopsis Twenty years after the last film in the series, John Rambo has retreated to northern Thailand, where he's running a longboat on the Salween River. On the nearby Thai-Burma border, the world's longest-running civil war, the Burmese-Karen conflict, rages into...

5.4

27K votes

5.4

27K votes

Crossing Jordan (TV Series)

2001 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Tim Kring · Allan Arkush · Roxann Dawson · Ian Toynton

Cast Jill Hennessy · Miguel Ferrer · Ravi Kapoor · Jerry O'Connell

Synopsis TV Series (2001-2007). 6 Seasons. Jill Hennessy stars as Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh, a sexy, smart and fearless Boston medical examiner with a checkered career past who works under the guidance of Dr. Garret Macy (Miguel Ferrer) Her unorthodox methods constantly...

5.4

3K votes

5.4

3K votes

In Her Shoes

2005 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Hanson

Cast Cameron Diaz · Toni Collette · Shirley MacLaine · Mark Feuerstein

Synopsis In Her Shoes (2005) follows the lives of two estranged sisters, Maggie and Rose, who are polar opposites in personality and lifestyle. Maggie is a free-spirited but irresponsible woman, while Rose is a disciplined lawyer struggling with self-esteem. After a...

5.4

10K votes

5.4

10K votes

The Wedding Ringer

2015 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Jeremy Garelick

Cast Kaley Cuoco · Josh Gad · Kevin Hart · Alan Ritchson

Synopsis Doug Harris (Josh Gad) is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With less than two weeks to go until he marries the girl of his dreams (Kaley Cuoco), Doug is referred to...

5.3

4K votes

5.3

4K votes

The Net

1995 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Winkler

Cast Sandra Bullock · Jeremy Northam · Dennis Miller · Diane Baker

Synopsis In The Net (1995), a reclusive computer programmer named Angela Bennett stumbles upon a dangerous conspiracy after receiving a mysterious disk. As she investigates, her identity is erased from all records, leaving her a stranger in her own life. Hunted...

5.2

35K votes

5.2

35K votes

Such Good Friends

1971 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dyan Cannon · James Coco · Jennifer O'Neill · Ken Howard

Synopsis While awaiting the outcome of her husband's surgery, Julie Messinger discovers he has been having affairs.

5.2

93 votes

5.2

93 votes

Better Living Through Chemistry

2014 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Geoff Moore · David Posamentier

Cast Sam Rockwell · Olivia Wilde · Michelle Monaghan · Ray Liotta

Synopsis A straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.

5.2

1K votes

5.2

1K votes

At First Sight

1999 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Irwin Winkler

Cast Val Kilmer · Mira Sorvino · Kelly McGillis · Steven Weber

Synopsis While on vacation an engaged New York City architect Amy Benic (Mira Sorvino) meets a blind massage therapist and begins to fall in love with, charismatic masseur Virgil Adamson (Val Kilmer). Against the wishes of his sister Kelly McGillis she...

4.9

4K votes

4.9

4K votes

The Man in the Brown Suit (TV)

1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Alan Grint

Cast Rue McClanahan · Tony Randall · Edward Woodward · Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis An American woman is getting involved in a diamond theft in South Africa.

4.8

41 votes

4.8

41 votes

Direction Richard Shapiro · Esther Shapiro · Robert Pollock · Eileen Pollock

Cast Charlton Heston · Barbara Stanwyck · Ricardo Montalban · Maxwell Caulfield

Synopsis TV Series (1985-1987). 2 Seasons. 49 Episodes. The Colbys are a spin off of Dynasty. Dynasty presented the Colby characters at a ball in Denver where The Colby's came to celebrate the Denver Carrington and Colby Enterprises business project. Than...

4.8

2K votes

4.8

2K votes

Under Still Waters

2008 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Carolyn Miller

Cast Lake Bell · Jason Biondo · Jason Clarke · Clifton Collins Jr.

Synopsis Frustrated mediocre architect Andrew takes his wife, tycoon Conrad's daughter Charlotte 'Charlie', for whom he left his New York career, to her family's isolation country lakeside cabin for the weekend. On the way, they nearly run over ex-con drifter Jacob...

3.5

43 votes

3.5

43 votes

Smother

2008 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Vince Di Meglio

Cast Diane Keaton · Liv Tyler · Dax Shepard · Ken Howard

Synopsis After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young couple.

3.3

1K votes

3.3

1K votes

Direction David S. Cass Sr.

Cast Melissa Gilbert · Ken Howard · Amy Halloran · Bryan Becker

Synopsis Melissa Gilbert stars as Kate Weston, a big-city attorney who returns home when her estranged father, Thane, falls ill. The reunion at the family farm only stirs bitter memories of family tragedy and a past that can only be healed...

3.3

48 votes

3.3

48 votes

The Beacon

2009 · Movie · United States

Direction Michael Stokes

Cast Teri Polo · David Rees Snell · Elaine Hendrix · Michael Ironside

Synopsis While trying to get their lives back on track after the loss of their four year old son, Bryn and Paul Shaw move to the charming old Beacon Apartments. Bryn begins seeing a ghostly little boy skulking around the building....

3.2

163 votes

3.2

163 votes