Cast: Ed Lauter

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


The Artist

2011 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Michel Hazanavicius

Cast Jean Dujardin · Bérénice Bejo · James Cromwell · John Goodman

Synopsis Hollywood, year 1927. George Valentin is a very successful silent movie star. The arrival of talking pictures will mark the end of his career. Peppy Miller, a young woman extra, becomes a major movie star.

7.6

58K votes

7.6

58K votes

Family Plot

1976 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Karen Black · Bruce Dern · Barbara Harris · William Devane

Synopsis Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt)...

6.8

6K votes

6.8

6K votes

Executive Action

1973 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Burt Lancaster · Robert Ryan · John Anderson · Colby Chester

Synopsis Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination in this speculative agitprop.

6.4

473 votes

6.4

473 votes

Seabiscuit

2003 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Gary Ross

Cast Tobey Maguire · Jeff Bridges · Chris Cooper · Elizabeth Banks

Synopsis "Seabiscuit," an American epic of triumph and perseverance set during the Great Depression, is based on the best-selling book that was one of the most popular and widely read non-fiction books of recent years. It is the story of three...

6.3

13K votes

6.3

13K votes

School Ties

1992 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mandel

Cast Brendan Fraser · Matt Damon · Chris O'Donnell · Ben Affleck

Synopsis A Jewish boy goes to an elite prep school in the 1950's and hides his religion until a jealous bigot forces it out in the open.

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

French Connection II

1975 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Gene Hackman · Fernando Rey · Bernard Fresson · Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Synopsis This sequel to the Oscar-winning "The French Connection" picks up almost exactly where the earlier film leaves off. Still on the trail of drug kingpin Frog One (Fernando Rey), narcotics officer "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) leaves his Manhattan stomping grounds...

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6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Bad Company

1972 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Benton

Cast Jeff Bridges · Barry Brown · John Savage · Ed Lauter

Synopsis A genteel Northerner during the Civil War (Barry Brown) is robbed by scalawag Jeff Bridges--and winds up teaming up with him. Together, they become a criminal duo (although with one member more reluctant than the other) in this entertaining, realistic...

6.1

369 votes

6.1

369 votes

The Jericho Mile (TV)

1979 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Michael Mann

Cast Peter Strauss · Richard Lawson · Roger E. Mosley · Brian Dennehy

Synopsis Rain Murphy is a man sentenced to life in prison, choosing to do his time in near-isolation, and engages in distance running when given the opportunity for free-time. While his form and speed capture the attention of prison officials who...

6.1

116 votes

6.1

116 votes

Trouble with the Curve

2012 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Robert Lorenz

Cast Clint Eastwood · Amy Adams · Justin Timberlake · John Goodman

Synopsis Gus is a baseball scout. Now the team whom he works for, thinks he should retire. He asks to let him do one more scouting job to prove him self. Pete, his friend, asks his estranged daughter, Mickey, if she...

6.1

10K votes

6.1

10K votes

Miami Vice (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Yerkovich · John Nicolella · Richard Compton · Leon Ichaso

Cast Don Johnson · Philip Michael Thomas · Edward James Olmos · Saundra Santiago

Synopsis TV Series (1984-1990). 5 Seasons. 111 Episodes. Miami Vice was one of the most innovative and powerful TV series of all time, focusing on the Miami Metro-Dade police "Vice" department and it`s continued battle against the illicit drug, prostitution, and...

6.0

26K votes

6.0

26K votes

Death Hunt

1981 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hunt

Cast Charles Bronson · Lee Marvin · Angie Dickinson · Andrew Stevens

Synopsis Based on a true story that happened in the Yukon Territory in 1931: a fur trapper named Albert Johnson, an eccentric loner, having been accused of murder, attempted to flee through the Arctic Circle wilderness to sanctuary in Alaska, pursued...

6.0

1K votes

6.0

1K votes

Longstreet (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don McDougall · James H. Brown · David Lowell Rich · Paul Krasny

Cast James Franciscus · Marlyn Mason · Peter Mark Richman · Ann Doran

Synopsis Mike Longstreet was an insurance investigator who was blinded in an explosion. His wife was killed by the same blast. With the aid of braille teacher Nikki and guide dog Pax, Longstreet tracked down the jewel thieves who murdered his...

5.9

21 votes

5.9

21 votes

Cannon (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Jimmy Sangster · E. Arthur Kean · George McCowan · Lawrence Dobkin

Cast William Conrad · Patrick Culliton · Tom Pittman · Charles Bateman

Synopsis The weekly adventures of Frank Cannon, an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures, who becomes a high-priced private investigator. Since Cannon's girth didn't allow for many fist-fights and gun battles (although there were...

5.9

135 votes

5.9

135 votes

Breakheart Pass

1975 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Tom Gries

Cast Charles Bronson · Ben Johnson · Ed Lauter · Jill Ireland

Synopsis Frontier lawman John Deakin goes undercover as a fugitive from justice and boards a train in order to follow a gang of ruthless outlaws.

5.9

704 votes

5.9

704 votes

Magic

1978 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Ann-Margret · Burgess Meredith · Ed Lauter

Synopsis An eerie, terrifying story scripted by William Goldman from his own novel boasts Anthony Hopkins as a ventriloquist whose foul-mouthed dummy, Fats, begins to assert his own personality, leading Hopkins to question his sanity.

5.9

1K votes

5.9

1K votes

The Midnight Man

1974 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Roland Kibbee · Burt Lancaster

Cast Burt Lancaster · Susan Clark · Cameron Mitchell · Morgan Woodward

Synopsis After being found guilty of the murder of a man who was having an affair with his wife, one-time police detective Jim Slade (Lancaster) is sentenced to a long stay in prison. Upon his release, his parole officer, Linda (Susan...

5.8

310 votes

5.8

310 votes

The Longest Yard

1974 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Burt Reynolds · Eddie Albert · Ed Lauter · Michael Conrad

Synopsis In this rough-and tumble movie, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prison, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' semi-pro...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes

Monsters (TV Series)

1988 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Ernest D. Farino · Bette Gordon · Jeffrey Wolf · Gerald Cotts

Cast John Bolger · Pamela Dean Kelly · John Saxon · Lisa Waltz

Synopsis A horror anthology show in a similar vein to Tales from the Darkside, it shared the same producer, Richard Rubenstein, and in some ways succeeded the show (which had ended the same year in which Monsters began). It differed in...

5.8

42 votes

5.8

42 votes

Seraphim Falls

2006 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction David Von Ancken

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Liam Neeson · Michael Wincott · Anjelica Huston

Synopsis PIERCE BROSNAN and LIAM NEESON star in Seraphim Falls – An epic action thriller set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Directed by David Von Ancken (The Shield, CSI) Seraphim Falls is a visceral study of revenge and...

5.8

4K votes

5.8

4K votes