Cast: Charles Bickford

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


Days of Wine and Roses

1962 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Jack Lemmon · Lee Remick · Charles Bickford · Jack Klugman

Plot Joe Clay is a top-notch public relations man. Anything a client wants Joe can arrange for them, whether it be dancing girls or an article in a prominent magazine. Part...

8.1

19K votes

8.1

19K votes

The Big Country

1958 · Movie · 159 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gregory Peck · Jean Simmons · Charlton Heston · Burl Ives

Plot In a dry, parched canyon located in the southwest, a rich rancher battles it out with a poor counterpart for water rights. Yet in fact, neither man has control of...

8.0

12K votes

8.0

12K votes

Duel in the Sun

1946 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Jennifer Jones · Gregory Peck · Joseph Cotten · Lionel Barrymore

Plot Orphaned half-breed Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) comes to Spanish Bit, a Ponderosa-like cattle ranch run by despotic McCandless (Lionel Barrymore). There she finds kindness in the heart of ex-Dixie Belle...

7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K votes

Brute Force

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Jules Dassin

Cast Burt Lancaster · Hume Cronyn · Charles Bickford · Yvonne De Carlo

Plot At overcrowded Westgate Penitentiary, where violence and fear are the norm and the warden has less power than guards and leading prisoners, the least contented prisoner is tough, single-minded Joe...

Max

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

A Star Is Born

1954 · Movie · 175 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford

Plot Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Johnny Belinda

1948 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Jane Wyman · Lew Ayres · Charles Bickford · Agnes Moorehead

Plot In a small fishing village on the island of Cape Breton, Dr. Robert Richardson takes aninterest in a sweet deaf mute named Belinda. He teaches her sign language and lip...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Fallen Angel

1945 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Dana Andrews · Alice Faye · Linda Darnell · Charles Bickford

Plot Eric Stanton (Dana Andrews), thrown off a bus for not having the fare, begins to frequent a diner called "Pop's Eats", whose main attraction is a beautiful waitress by the...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Unforgiven

1960 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Burt Lancaster · Audrey Hepburn · Audie Murphy · John Saxon

Plot The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Of Mice and Men

1939 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Burgess Meredith · Betty Field · Lon Chaney Jr. · Charles Bickford

Plot George Milton and Lennie Small are migrant workers in the 1930s Depression. Lennie is mentally retarded and George looks after him. While working as hands on a Western ranch, they...

Max

6.8

276 votes

6.8

276 votes

The Woman on the Beach

1947 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Joan Bennett · Robert Ryan · Charles Bickford · Nan Leslie

Plot After recuperation from physical and psychological trauma during the war, Robert Ryan finds himself stationed at a sleepy Coast Guard outpost on the California coast. He's restless and diffident about...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

A Big Hand For the Little Lady

1966 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Henry Fonda · Joanne Woodward · Jason Robards · Charles Bickford

Plot A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Four Faces West

1948 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Joel McCrea · Frances Dee · Charles Bickford · Joseph Calleia

Plot Cowboy Ross McEwen arrives in town. He asks the banker for a loan of $2000. When the banker asks about securing a loan that large, McEwen shows him his six-gun...

6.6

213 votes

6.6

213 votes

Anna Christie

1930 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Greta Garbo · Charles Bickford · George F. Marion · Marie Dressler

Plot In New York, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge Chris Christofferson receives a letter from his estranged twenty year old daughter Anna "Christie" Christofferson telling that she will leave...

6.6

344 votes

6.6

344 votes

Whirlpool

1949 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Gene Tierney · Richard Conte · José Ferrer · Charles Bickford

Plot A woman secretly suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an effort to cure her condition. Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of...

6.6

799 votes

6.6

799 votes

Not As a Stranger

1955 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Robert Mitchum · Gloria Grahame · Frank Sinatra

Plot Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is...

6.6

667 votes

6.6

667 votes

Under Pressure

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Edmund Lowe · Victor McLaglen · Florence Rice · Marjorie Rambeau

Plot Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see...

6.6

46 votes

6.6

46 votes

The Plainsman

1936 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · James Ellison · Charles Bickford

Plot With the end of the North American Civil War, the manufacturers of repeating rifles find a profitable means of making money selling the weapons to the North American Indians, using...

6.6

726 votes

6.6

726 votes

The Farmer's Daughter

1947 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Loretta Young · Joseph Cotten · Ethel Barrymore · Charles Bickford

Plot Swedish-American farmer's daughter Katrin 'Katie' Holstrom leaves the farm to study nursing in the big, wicked city. Thanks to a chiseling acquaintance, her tuition and expense money disappears the first...

6.5

201 votes

6.5

201 votes

Mr. Lucky

1943 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction H.C. Potter

Cast Cary Grant · Laraine Day · Charles Bickford · Gladys Cooper

Plot Joe Adams takes on the identity of a dead gangster in order to avoid the draft. Adams plans to use a war relief charity to get his gambling operation up...

6.5

383 votes

6.5

383 votes

The Song of Bernadette

1943 · Movie · 156 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Jennifer Jones · William Eythe · Charles Bickford · Vincent Price

Plot In 1858 France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but...

6.5

920 votes

6.5

920 votes