Cast: Frances Bavier

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


Bend of the River

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Anthony Mann

Cast James Stewart · Arthur Kennedy · Rock Hudson · Julie Adams

Plot Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory. They establish a settlement outside of Portland...

7.6

8K votes

7.6

8K votes

The Day the Earth Stood Still

1951 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Michael Rennie · Patricia Neal · Hugh Marlowe · Sam Jaffe

Plot A space craft lands in Washington D.C. and an alien named Klaatu appears with a robot, Gort. He's come to speak to the leaders of the world in the hope...

7.0

17K votes

7.0

17K votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Revenge (TV)

1955 · Movie · 26 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Ralph Meeker · Vera Miles · Frances Bavier · Ray Montgomery

Plot When Carl Spann's wife Elsa is assaulted by an unknown attacker, he drives his still-incoherent wife around town, hoping she can point him out, so he can kill him.

6.6

820 votes

6.6

820 votes

Man in the Attic

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Hugo Fregonese

Cast Jack Palance · Constance Smith · Byron Palmer · Frances Bavier

Plot London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments."...

6.3

180 votes

6.3

180 votes

The Stooge

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Polly Bergen · Marion Marshall

Plot Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.

6.0

42 votes

6.0

42 votes

It Started with a Kiss

1959 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

5.2

104 votes

5.2

104 votes

Sally and Saint Anne

1952 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Rudolph Maté

Cast Ann Blyth · Edmund Gwenn · John McIntire · Gregg Palmer

Plot Sally O'Moyne, a good-natured but awkward school-girl lives with her extended and eccentric Irish-American clan. One day at school, unable to find her lunch bucket, Sally says a prayer to...

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A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

1958 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Henry Levin

Cast Tom Ewell · Mickey Rooney · Mickey Shaughnessy · Dina Merrill

Plot Three horse-racing lovers turn to robbery to appease their gambling appetites. Max is the nice, easygoing, vitamin-gulping guy with an out-sized swallow tube; Gus is his penniless, parasitic friend and...

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The Eve Arden Show (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Emily Kimbrough

Cast Eve Arden · Allyn Joslyn · Gail Stone · Karen Green

Plot TV Series (1957-1958). 1 season. 26 episodes. The show was about a widowed mother of two daughters who earns money from writing books.

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My Wife's Best Friend

1952 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Richard Sale

Cast Anne Baxter · Macdonald Carey · Cecil Kellaway · Max Showalter

Plot Thinking that the airplane they are flying in is about to crash and death is imminent, a husband confesses to his wife, of eight happy years, that he had once...

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The Lady Says No

1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Frank Ross

Cast Joan Caulfield · David Niven · James Robertson Justice · Lenore Lonergan

Plot A woman writes a best-selling book for women warning them about the "dangers" of men. A handsome photographer for a national magazine arrives in her town to do a feature...

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Mayberry R.F.D. (TV Series)

1968 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Christian Nyby · Hal Cooper · Elliott Lewis

Cast Ken Berry · George Lindsey · Jack Dodson · Andy Griffith

Plot The further misadventures of the citizens of Mayberry.

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The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Bob Sweeney · Lee Philips · Alan Rafkin · Coby Ruskin

Cast Andy Griffith · Ron Howard · Don Knotts · Frances Bavier

Plot TV Series (1960-1968). 8 Seasons. 249 Episodes. Widower Sheriff Andy and his son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry NC. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of...

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