Cast: William Schallert

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


The Incredible Shrinking Man

1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Grant Williams · Randy Stuart · April Kent · Paul Langton

Plot After an exposure to a strange mist, Scott Carey begins to shrink. After facing such trials as confounded doctors and his angry cat, he accidently gets locked in the basement....

7.6

14K votes

7.6

14K votes

Lonely are the Brave

1962 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction David Miller

Cast Kirk Douglas · Gena Rowlands · Walter Matthau · Michael Kane

Plot In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Tarnished Angels

1957 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Rock Hudson · Robert Stack · Dorothy Malone · Jack Carson

Plot Story of a friendship between an eccentric journalist and a daredevil barnstorming pilot.

7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

It's a Good Life (S)

1983 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Joe Dante

Cast Burgess Meredith · Kathleen Quinlan · Jeremy Licht · Kevin McCarthy

Plot After seeing how he's bothered by a group of men, a teacher gives a lift to a little boy. Once they arrive to his house, she discovers that his family...

7.0

28 votes

7.0

28 votes

Charley Varrick

1973 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Walter Matthau · Joe Don Baker · Felicia Farr · Andrew Robinson

Plot In this compact, fast-paced action thriller, a bank robber really messes up when he and his gang accidentally knock over a Mafia-controlled New Mexico bank. As a result, they must...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

War and Remembrance (TV Miniseries)

1988 · Series · 1620 min. · United States

Direction Herman Wouk · Dan Curtis

Cast Robert Mitchum · John Gielgud · Jane Seymour · Hart Bochner

Plot The saga of the Henry family, begun in "The Winds of War" continues as America is attacked by Japan and enters World War II. For Victor Henry, an upwardly mobile...

6.9

85 votes

6.9

85 votes

One Step Beyond (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 25 min. · United States

Direction John Newland · Axel Gruenberg · Jack B. Hively

Cast John Newland · Robert Douglas · Will J. White · Olan Soule

Plot Produced at the same time as the more well-known Twilight Zone, this series fed the nation's growing interest in paranormal suspense in a different way. Rather than creating fictional stories...

6.8

60 votes

6.8

60 votes

Will Penny

1967 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Tom Gries

Cast Charlton Heston · Joan Hackett · Donald Pleasence · Lee Majors

Plot Rambling along at its own measured pace, Will Penny is a vivid western character study, completely dominated by the rapport between stars (Charlton Heston) and (Joan Hackett). Heston plays Will...

6.6

1K votes

6.6

1K votes

Shield for Murder

1954 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Howard W. Koch · Edmond O'Brien

Cast Edmond O'Brien · Marla English · John Agar · Emile Meyer

Plot A vicious cop kills a bookie's runner and steals $25,000 from the corpse. He then frames everyone in sight in order to keep to the money to buy a model...

6.5

73 votes

6.5

73 votes

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1983 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction John Landis · Steven Spielberg · Joe Dante · George Miller

Cast Dan Aykroyd · Albert Brooks · Scatman Crothers · John Lithgow

Plot Four horror/sci-fi segments directed by four famous directors which are their own versions of classic stories from Rod Serling's landmark television series

6.4

6K votes

6.4

6K votes

Wanted: Dead or Alive (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Thomas Carr · Don McDougall · George Blair · Murray Golden

Cast Steve McQueen · James Coburn · Jack Tornek · Michael Landon

Plot TV Series (1958-1961). Wanted: Dead or Alive was an American Western television show which ran for three seasons from 1958 to 1961, starred unconventional-looking leading man Steve McQueen, and was...

6.4

70 votes

6.4

70 votes

The Wild Wild West (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Michael Garrison · Irving J. Moore · Robert Sparr · Alan Crosland Jr.

Cast Robert Conrad · Ross Martin · Dick Cangey · Red West

Plot TV Series (1965-1969). 4 Seasons. 104 Episodes. James West and Artemus Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight...

6.4

463 votes

6.4

463 votes

The Tattered Dress

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Jeff Chandler · Jeanne Crain · Jack Carson · Gail Russell

Plot After a wild night, wealthy Michael Reston's adulterous wife Charleen (Elaine Stewart) comes home with her ripe young body barely concealed by a dress in rags; she claims being sexually...

6.4

45 votes

6.4

45 votes

Innerspace

1987 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Joe Dante

Cast Dennis Quaid · Martin Short · Meg Ryan · Kevin McCarthy

Plot Test pilot Tuck Pendleton is placed in a one-man submersible and reduced to microscopic size as part of an experiment where he is to be injected into the bloodstream of...

6.3

20K votes

6.3

20K votes

Colossus: The Forbin Project

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Eric Braeden · William Schallert · Susan Clark · Gordon Pinsent

Plot Dr Charles Forbin (Eric Braeden) activates his creation, the super-computer Colossus, which has been designed to take control of all US military installations. Once activated it is sealed into an...

6.2

625 votes

6.2

625 votes

The Jerk

1979 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Carl Reiner

Cast Steve Martin · Bernadette Peters · Catlin Adams · Mabel King

Plot Navin Johnson, a none-too-bright white boy raised by a family of black sharecroppers, somehow manages to reach adulthood without ever discovering he was adopted. His parents finally tell him the...

6.0

728 votes

6.0

728 votes

The Man from Planet X

1951 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Robert Clarke · Margaret Field · Raymond Bond · William Schallert

Plot American journalist John Lawrence is invited to join astronomer John Elliott at his observatory on a remote island off the Scottish coast where Elliott is monitoring a passing planet that...

5.6

575 votes

5.6

575 votes

The Twilight Zone: Mr. Bevis (TV)

1960 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction William Asher

Cast Orson Bean · Henry Jones · Charles Lane · Horace McMahon

Plot James B.W. Bevis is, by almost any definition, eccentric. He drives a car that once was Henry Ford's dream, he likes zither music and makes model ships. He's a bookkeeper...

5.4

119 votes

5.4

119 votes

Teachers

1984 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Nick Nolte · JoBeth Williams · Judd Hirsch · Ralph Macchio

Plot A teacher overcomes his frustration in a high-school full of flunkies. As he attempts to educate his students, his attempts to help them gets him into trouble with the school...

5.3

136 votes

5.3

136 votes

Hangar 18

1980 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction James L. Conway

Cast Darren McGavin · Robert Vaughn · Gary Collins · Philip Abbott

Plot During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite is rammed by an unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House...

5.1

265 votes

5.1

265 votes