Cast: Lawrence Tierney

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


Reservoir Dogs

1992 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Quentin Tarantino

Cast Tim Roth · Harvey Keitel · Chris Penn · Steve Buscemi

Synopsis They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought there was no way their heist could fail. But they...

8.1

134K votes

8.1

134K votes

Hill Street Blues (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Steven Bochco · Michael Kozoll · Gregory Hoblit · Christian I. Nyby II

Cast Daniel J. Travanti · Michael Conrad · Michael Warren · Bruce Weitz

Synopsis TV Series (1981-1987). 7 Seasons. 146 episodes. The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct in New York. The original "ensemble drama," this is the story of an overworked, under-staffed police precinct in an anonymous...

7.2

18K votes

7.2

18K votes

Prizzi's Honor

1985 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Jack Nicholson · Kathleen Turner · Anjelica Huston · Robert Loggia

Synopsis Adapted from Richard Condon's novel, the film stars Nicholson as a none-too-bright hit man for a Mafia family who falls in love with an independent operator--a female killer played by Kathleen Turner. The two make a surprisingly funny couple, whether...

7.0

19K votes

7.0

19K votes

6.9

1K votes

The Greatest Show on Earth

1952 · Movie · 153 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast James Stewart · Charlton Heston · Betty Hutton · Cornel Wilde

Synopsis To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues...

6.7

4K votes

6.7

4K votes

City of Hope

1991 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction John Sayles

Cast Vincent Spano · Chris Cooper · Joe Morton · David Strathairn

Synopsis City of Hope is a portrait of a typical middle-sized American city of the present day. The crux of the story is an old apartment block which stands in the way of a major commercial development. Joe Rinaldi is the...

6.7

175 votes

6.7

175 votes

Born to Kill

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Claire Trevor · Lawrence Tierney · Walter Slezak · Phillip Terry

Synopsis In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but says nothing to the police; she's leaving town and doesn't want to be...

6.7

611 votes

6.7

611 votes

Dillinger

1945 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Edmund Lowe · Anne Jeffreys · Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including, unforgiveably, holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy Number One.

6.6

296 votes

6.6

296 votes

Bodyguard

1948 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Priscilla Lane · Phillip Reed · June Clayworth

Synopsis Homicide detective Mike Carter is tossed off the police force for insubordination and violating regulations. He reluctantly takes a job as bodyguard to Mrs. Gene Dysen, the owner of a local meat-packing plant. In investigating threats against her life, Carter...

6.4

202 votes

6.4

202 votes

The Hoodlum

1951 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Max Nosseck

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Allene Roberts · Marjorie Riordan · Lisa Golm

Synopsis Career criminal Vincent Lubeck is granted parole through the tireless efforts of his loyal mother, but he is contemptuous of his honest brother Joey and the job he gets at his gas station. He seduces Joey's fiancee Rosa and is...

6.1

66 votes

6.1

66 votes

The Devil Thumbs a Ride

1947 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Felix E. Feist

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Ted North · Nan Leslie · Betty Lawford

Synopsis Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night...

5.8

122 votes

5.8

122 votes

Custer of the West

1966 · Movie · 146 min. · United States

5.8

401 votes

5.8

401 votes

The Ghost Ship

1943 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Richard Dix · Russell Wade · Edith Barrett · Ben Bard

Synopsis Tom Merriam signs on the ship Altair as third officer under Captain Stone. At first things look good, Stone sees Merriam as a younger version of himself and Merriam sees Stone as the first adult to ever treat him as...

5.8

357 votes

5.8

357 votes

San Quentin

1946 · Movie · 66 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Barton MacLane · Marian Carr · Harry Shannon

Synopsis Television viewer seeing this for the first time: Gee whiz, it's in black-and-white and was made in the 40's and is about crime and...Eureka!...another "noir" film is discovered. How about just another typical Martin Mooney film that starts out as...

5.7

64 votes

5.7

64 votes

Badman's Territory

1946 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Randolph Scott · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Ann Richards · Ray Collins

Synopsis After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to...

5.7

23 votes

5.7

23 votes

Back to Bataan

1945 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast John Wayne · Anthony Quinn · Beulah Bondi · Fely Franquelli

Synopsis The US Army's defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted on its island fortress of Corregidor on Luzon -and a few others- but loses it in the 6 May 1942 Japanese combined forces attack....

5.6

310 votes

5.6

310 votes

Best of the Badmen

1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction William D. Russell

Cast Robert Ryan · Claire Trevor · Jack Buetel · Robert Preston

Synopsis At the conclusion of the Civil War, Jeff Clanton, an Army major from Missouri, persuades the last of the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders to give themselves up and pledge their allegiance to the Union. Many of the Raiders are infamous wanted...

5.6

125 votes

5.6

125 votes

Silver Bullet

1985 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Attias

Cast Corey Haim · Everett McGill · Gary Busey · Leon Russom

Synopsis The small town of Tarker's Mill was a place that was very peaceful, where nothing ever happened. Until one night, murders begin. The town people believe its some maniac killer on the loose and intend to hunt the man down....

5.4

2K votes

5.4

2K votes

The Offspring

1987 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Jeff Burr

Cast Vincent Price · Cameron Mitchell · Martine Beswick · Lawrence Tierney

Synopsis In a small Tennessee town, an historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.

5.3

184 votes

5.3

184 votes

The Prowler

1981 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Zito

Cast Vicky Dawson · Christopher Goutman · Lawrence Tierney · Farley Granger

Synopsis A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.

5.2

410 votes

5.2

410 votes