Cast: Ernie Kovacs

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


Strangers When We Meet

1960 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Kirk Douglas · Kim Novak · Ernie Kovacs · Barbara Rush

Synopsis Architect Larry Coe has a wife and family, but becomes embroiled in an affair with beautiful Maggie Gault, a neighbor with her own family. The two lovers are forced to face the choice between love and loyalty.

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Our Man in Havana

1959 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Alec Guinness · Burl Ives · Maureen O'Hara · Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne (Noel Coward), a British intelligence agent, is looking for information...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Bell, Book and Candle

1958 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast James Stewart · Kim Novak · Jack Lemmon · Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis A modern-day witch likes her neighbor but despises his fiancee, so she enchants him to love her instead... only to fall in love with him for real. Gillian Holroyd is just your average, modern-day, witch, living in a New York...

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

North to Alaska

1960 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast John Wayne · Stewart Granger · Capucine · Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis Year 1900. After partners George Pratt and Sam McCord strike it rich with their Nome, Alaska gold mine, George's only wish is to marry his French fiancée Jenny, who has been patiently waiting for him for three years in Seattle....

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Operation Mad Ball

1957 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Jack Lemmon · Ernie Kovacs · Kathryn Grant · Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis Private Hogan must raise his ability to scheme and plot to a new level to put on a madcap dance to celebrate the closing of an Army surgical hospital in post WWII France while evading the stickler-for-details Captain Locke -...

6.0

56 votes

6.0

56 votes

It Happened to Jane

1959 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Richard Quine

Cast Jack Lemmon · Doris Day · Ernie Kovacs · Steve Forrest

Synopsis Jane Osgood is trying to support her two young children by running a lobster business. After one of her shipments is ruined by inattention at the railroad station, Jane decides to take on Harry Foster Malone, director of the line...

5.8

417 votes

5.8

417 votes

Pepe

1960 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Dan Dailey · Shirley Jones · Vicki Trickett

Synopsis The young Mexican Pepe's beloved horse is sold to Hollywood star Ted Holt, leading to Pepe's journey to Hollywood to get the horse back, and Pepe's encounter with half the stars working in Hollywood at the time.

5.1

286 votes

5.1

286 votes

Sail a Crooked Ship

1961 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Irving Brecher

Cast Robert Wagner · Dolores Hart · Carolyn Jones · Ernie Kovacs

Synopsis A bungling burglar, determined to go down in the annals of crime as a genius, steals a ship in New York in order to rob a bank in Boston. He steals a mothballed Liberty ship, assembles a nitwit band of...

Not rated

Not rated

Five Golden Hours

1961 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mario Zampi

Cast Ernie Kovacs · Cyd Charisse · George Sanders · Kay Hammond

Synopsis A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes. The crook evolves an ingenious swindle geared...

Not rated

Not rated

Wake Me When It's Over

1960 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Ernie Kovacs · Dick Shawn · Margo Moore · Jack Warden

Synopsis Gus Brubaker has been drafted... again. Due to a clerical error, Gus finds himself deployed to a little Japanese island where everyone is bored to death. So Gus decided to build a hotel and hire locals to run the place.

Not rated

Not rated

The Ernie Kovacs Show (TV Series)

1952 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Behar · Barry Shear

Cast Ernie Kovacs · Edie Adams · The Bob Hamilton Trio · Boris Karloff

Synopsis TV Series (1952-1956). 2 episodes.

Not rated

Not rated