Cast: Frank Overton

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


To Kill a Mockingbird

1962 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Gregory Peck · Mary Badham · Brock Peters · Phillip Alford

Synopsis To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) follows young Scout Finch and her brother Jem in the racially divided town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930s. Their father, Atticus Finch, a principled lawyer, defends a Black man falsely accused of assaulting a...

8.3

47K votes

8.3

47K votes

Fail-Safe

1964 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Henry Fonda · Walter Matthau · Fritz Weaver

Synopsis A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe distance. At this point the flight...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Direction Robert Stevens

Cast Gig Young · Frank Overton · Irene Tedrow · Michael Montgomery

Synopsis The busy and stressed VP of an ad agency, Martin Sloan, stops his car at a gas station. When asked the attendant tells him it will take about an hour to change the oil and perform a lube job. In...

7.0

279 votes

7.0

279 votes

Desire Under the Elms

1958 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Sophia Loren · Anthony Perkins · Burl Ives · Frank Overton

Synopsis n DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, Anna poses tough competition to Ephraim’s bitter sons from his previous marriages, who believe they, not their new stepmother, should inherit all his land. Things heat up when Anna and Ephraim’s son, Eben spend a...

6.6

390 votes

6.6

390 votes

The Twilight Zone: Mute (TV)

1963 · Movie · 51 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Rosenberg

Cast Barbara Baxley · Frank Overton · Irene Dailey · Ann Jillian

Synopsis The orphaned daughter of telepathic parents must learn to speak and deal with a world she cannot communicate in.

6.4

54 votes

6.4

54 votes

Route 66 (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Lowell Rich · Arthur Hiller · Tom Gries · George Sherman

Cast Martin Milner · George Maharis · Glenn Corbett · Elizabeth MacRae

Synopsis Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the...

6.3

25 votes

6.3

25 votes

Lonelyhearts

1958 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Vincent J. Donehue

Cast Montgomery Clift · Robert Ryan · Myrna Loy · Dolores Hart

Synopsis Eager to land a journalistic position, Adam White (Montgomery Clift) goes to work as an advice-giving newspaper columnist. His editor, Shrike (Robert Ryan), takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence (Myrna Loy) for her past adultery, and assigning his...

6.1

171 votes

6.1

171 votes

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Delbert Mann

Cast Robert Preston · Dorothy McGuire · Eve Arden · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage...

5.9

41 votes

5.9

41 votes

Posse from Hell

1961 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Coleman

Cast Audie Murphy · John Saxon · Zohra Lampert · Vic Morrow

Synopsis Banner Cole is a tough sheriff's deputy who forms a small posse to go after 4 death cell escapees who killed the sheriff , along with 3 other men, and kidnapped a woman with rape in mind.

5.6

75 votes

5.6

75 votes

Brenner

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Gerald Mayer · Herman Hoffman · James Sheldon · Joseph Anthony

Cast Edward Binns · James Broderick · Sydney Pollack · Dick O´Neill

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 27 episodes. Roy has been a hardened NYPD cop for twenty years; his son Ernie is an idealistic rookie. Together they clash and learn from their different views of life and the job.

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Claudelle Inglish

1961 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Diane McBain · Arthur Kennedy · Will Hutchins · Constance Ford

Synopsis In this sleazy melodrama a defiant Southern farm girl marries a poor dirt farmer instead of the wealthy landowner her mother picked out. After her new husband is drafted and leaves, the girl descends into a life of cheap thrills,...

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Direction William Corrigan · Paul Bogart · John Fitchen · Ted Post

Cast Nelson Case · Joe Ripley · Sandy Becker · Bob Sherry

Synopsis Running for almost thirteen years, this dramatic anthology series featured many well-know actors and actresses, as well as a number who would later go on to become stars. Originally, the program presented dramas written by contemporary writers on a number...

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12 O'Clock High (TV Series)

1964 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Sy Bartlett · Beirne Lay Jr.

Cast Frank Overton · Paul Burke · Chris Robinson · Robert Lansing

Synopsis TV Series (1964-1967). 3 seasons. 78 episodes. Based on the motion picture Twelve O'Clock High (1949), directed by Henry King and starring Gregory Peck.

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The Big Story (TV Series)

1949 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Lawrence Doheny · Leonard Valenta · Dick Schneider · David Lowell Rich

Cast Burgess Meredith · Ben Grauer · Russell Hardie · Robert Sloane

Synopsis TV Series (1949-1958). 9 seasons. 279 episodes.

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Direction Delbert Mann · Arthur Penn · Vincent J. Donehue · Robert Mulligan

Cast Walter Matthau · David White · Constance Ford · E.G. Marshall

Synopsis TV Series (1951-1957). 6 seasons. 140 episodes. The show featured original plays plus plays adapted from works.

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Not rated