Cast: John Ritter

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


Noises Off!

1992 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Michael Caine · Carol Burnett · Denholm Elliott · Julie Hagerty

Plot Lloyd Fellowes is the director of a theatre company. He's desperately trying to get his production together, despite the best efforts of the cast, the crew, and Lady Luck. We...

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Sling Blade

1996 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Billy Bob Thornton

Cast Billy Bob Thornton · Dwight Yoakam · J.T. Walsh · John Ritter

Plot Karl Childers, now a grown man, is released from a psychiatric hospital where he has been hospitalized since the age of 12 for the murder of his mother and her...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

The Other

1972 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Chris Udvarnoky · Martin Udvarnoky · Uta Hagen · Diana Muldaur

Plot The story takes place on a small Connecticut farm in the summer of 1935 and concerns a luckless family that finds itself further plagued by a violent series of mysterious...

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

The Night That Panicked America (TV)

1975 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Vic Morrow · Cliff De Young · Michael Constantine · Walter McGinn

Plot The true story of the night that Orson Welles broadcast his version of 'H.G. Welles' ' classic ''The War of the Worlds'' on the radio. Designed to be as realistic...

6.4

39 votes

6.4

39 votes

They All Laughed

1981 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Ben Gazzara · John Ritter · Colleen Camp

Plot New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo (Ben Gazzara) trails Angela Niotes (Audrey Hepburn), the...

Max

6.3

547 votes

6.3

547 votes

Nowhere

1997 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Gregg Araki

Cast James Duval · Rachel True · Nathan Bexton · Chiara Mastroianni

Plot A group of teenagers try to sort out their lives and emotions while bizarre experiences happen to each one, including alien abductions, bad acid trips, bisexual experiences, suicides, bizarre deaths,...

6.3

883 votes

6.3

883 votes

Peter Bogdanovich's Nickelodeon

1976 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Burt Reynolds · Tatum O'Neal · Brian Keith

Plot This homage to the childhood days of the motion pictures starts in 1910, when the young attorney Leo Harrigan by chance meets a motion picture producer. Immediately he's invited to...

6.2

477 votes

6.2

477 votes

Panic

2000 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Henry Bromell

Cast William H. Macy · Neve Campbell · Donald Sutherland · Tracey Ullman

Plot Alex, a sad-eyed mournful man, goes into psychotherapy: he discloses he's a hit man. He also tells the doctor, after a few sessions, that he's attracted to a young woman...

6.1

195 votes

6.1

195 votes

Bad Santa

2003 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Terry Zwigoff

Cast Billy Bob Thornton · Tony Cox · Brett Kelly · Lauren Graham

Plot This is the story of two criminals who disguise themselves as Santa Claus (Thornton) and his elf, traveling across the country to major malls, using the good will people have...

5.9

6K votes

5.9

6K votes

It (TV)

1990 · Movie · 192 min. · United States

Direction Tommy Lee Wallace

Cast Richard Thomas · John Ritter · Annette O'Toole · Harry Anderson

Plot Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as "It". The only victims of "It" are children. Through the form of a clown...

5.8

18K votes

5.8

18K votes

Three's Company (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Brian Cooke · Johnnie Mortimer · Dave Powers · Bill Hobin

Cast John Ritter · Joyce DeWitt · Suzanne Sommers · Norman Fell

Plot TV Series (1977-1984). 8 Seasons. 174 Episodes. Comedy. When aspiring chef Jack Tripper (John Ritter) tells landlord Mr. Roper (Normal Fell) that he is gay in order to peacefully cohabit...

5.6

5K votes

5.6

5K votes

Stay Tuned

1992 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast John Ritter · Pam Dawber · Jeffrey Jones · David Tom

Plot John Ritter and Pam Dawber star as Roy and Helen Knable, a suburban American couple having marital problems. Roy has become a couch potato, and a resentful Helen wants him...

5.5

2K votes

5.5

2K votes

Tadpole

2002 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Gary Winick

Cast Sigourney Weaver · Aaron Stanford · Bebe Neuwirth · John Ritter

Plot Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a...

5.3

107 votes

5.3

107 votes

Skin Deep

1989 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

5.2

865 votes

5.2

865 votes

The Stone Killer

1973 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Charles Bronson · Martin Balsam · Jack Colvin · Paul Koslo

Plot Top detective Lou Torrey is transferred to Los Angeles and uncovers a plot by a Sicilian mafioso to use Vietnam veterans to murder all his enemies in a rerun of...

5.1

278 votes

5.1

278 votes

8 Simple Rules (TV Series)

2002 · Series · 20 min. · United States

Direction Tracy Gamble · James Widdoes · Lynn M. McCracken · Robby Benson

Cast John Ritter · Katey Sagal · Kaley Cuoco · Amy Davidson

Plot TV Series (2002-2005). 3 Seasons. 76 Episodes. It's a time for healing and learning to deal with life without family patriarch Paul, as the Hennessys discover the frailties of life...

5.0

782 votes

5.0

782 votes

Hero at Large

1980 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Martin Davidson

Cast John Ritter · Anne Archer · Bert Convy · Kevin McCarthy

Plot An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is...

5.0

83 votes

5.0

83 votes

Terror Tract

2000 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Lance W. Dreesen · Clint Hutchison

Cast John Ritter · David DeLuise · Allison Smith · Kim Correll

Plot Bob Carter, a suburban real estate agent, tries to get a kindly couple, Allen and Mary Ann Doyle, to buy a house only to give them horrifying stories about the...

5.0

97 votes

5.0

97 votes

Three's a Crowd (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 24 min. · United States

Direction Dave Powers

Cast John Ritter · Mary Cadorette · Robert Mandan · Alan Campbell

Plot This series continues where Three's Company ended. Jack Tripper met Vicky Bradford and fell in love with her at first sight. In the last episode he proposed marriage but due...

4.9

26 votes

4.9

26 votes

The Barefoot Executive

1971 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Robert Butler

Cast Kurt Russell · Harry Morgan · Wally Cox · Heather North

Plot A young man who works in the mailroom at a TV network wants to move up the corporate ladder but finds himself stymied by his selfish boss. By chance he...

4.9

124 votes

4.9

124 votes