Cast: James Whitmore
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring James Whitmore. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Movie · 142 min. · United States
Direction Frank Darabont
Cast Tim Robbins · Morgan Freeman · Bob Gunton · James Whitmore
Plot Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of his wife and her lover in the late 1940s. However, only Andy knows...
8.6
165K votes
8.6
165K votes
The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Sterling Hayden · Louis Calhern · Sam Jaffe · Jean Hagen
Plot Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He...
8.1
12K votes
8.1
12K votes
The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik
Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman
Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...
8.0
4K votes
8.0
4K votes
Planet of the Apes
1968 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Franklin J. Schaffner
Cast Charlton Heston · Roddy McDowall · Kim Hunter · Maurice Evans
Plot Complex sociological themes run through this science-fiction classic, about three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves... The stunned trio discovers that these highly...
7.5
56K votes
7.5
56K votes
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · Movie · 143 min. · United States
Direction Richard Fleischer · Kinji Fukasaku · Toshio Masuda
Cast Martin Balsam · Sô Yamamura · Joseph Cotten · Tatsuya Mihashi
Plot In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy...
7.2
13K votes
7.2
13K votes
The Twilight Zone: On Thursday We Leave for Home (TV)
1963 · Movie · 51 min. · United States
Direction Buzz Kulik
Cast James Whitmore · Tim O'Connor · James Broderick · Paul Langton
Plot A human colony is rescued from a forsaken planet. But their leader is having a hard time accepting that things will change when they get back to Earth.
7.1
64 votes
7.1
64 votes
The Next Voice You Hear...
1950 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast James Whitmore · Nancy Reagan · Gary Gray · Lillian Bronson
Plot "Joe Smith, American" lives in a Los Angeles suburb and works at an aircraft plant. One night Joe hears a voice cut in on a radio program: "This is God....
7.1
46 votes
7.1
46 votes
The Serpent's Egg
1977 · Movie · 120 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Ingmar Bergman
Cast David Carradine · Liv Ullmann · Gert Fröbe · Heinz Bennent
Plot In November of 1923, in a Berlin where a pack of cigarettes costs four million marks and people has lost faith in the present and future days, the alcoholic and...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
The Undercover Man
1949 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Joseph H. Lewis
Cast Glenn Ford · Nina Foch · James Whitmore · Barry Kelley
Plot Treasury Department agent Frank Warren takes on the case of a mob leader who has evaded paying taxes on his ill-gotten gains.
6.8
444 votes
6.8
444 votes
Them!
1954 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast James Whitmore · Edmund Gwenn · Joan Weldon · James Arness
Plot That ol' cinematic devil the A-bomb has spawned a colony of giant murderous ants bent on destroying humanity in this, the seminal big bug movie (an obvious and oft-credited influence...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
Battleground
1949 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Van Johnson · John Hodiak · Ricardo Montalban · George Murphy
Plot December, 1944. The Nazis, in the face of the onrushing Allies, turned and pushed into the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg for what would be their last major offensive...
6.8
645 votes
6.8
645 votes
Madigan
1968 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast Richard Widmark · Henry Fonda · Inger Stevens · Harry Guardino
Plot Adapted from Richard Dougherty's THE COMMISSIONER, MADIGAN stars Richard Widmark as the eponymous New York detective in this warmup for Don Siegel's DIRTY HARRY. Joined by his partner Rocco Bonaro...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
Across the Wide Missouri
1951 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction William A. Wellman
Cast Clark Gable · Ricardo Montalban · John Hodiak · Adolphe Menjou
Plot In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Blackfoot woman as a...
6.7
927 votes
6.7
927 votes
The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series)
1985 · Series · 23 min. · United States
Direction Ray Bradbury · Randy Bradshaw · Roger Tompkins · John Laing
Cast Ray Bradbury · Harold Gould · Charles Martin Smith · Michael Sarrazin
Plot TV series (1985-1992). 6 seasons. 65 episodes. A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short...
6.6
39 votes
6.6
39 votes
Crime in the Streets
1956 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Don Siegel
Cast John Cassavetes · James Whitmore · Sal Mineo · Mark Rydell
Plot Social worker tries to befriend local slum gang.
6.6
236 votes
6.6
236 votes
All the Brothers were Valiant
1953 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Taylor · Stewart Granger · Ann Blyth · Betta St. John
Plot Sea-faring saga of two brothers (Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger) and the woman they both love. Set against South Pacific islands, this love triangle pits the good brother against the bad...
6.6
774 votes
6.6
774 votes
The Eddy Duchin Story
1956 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Tyrone Power · Kim Novak · Victoria Shaw · James Whitmore
Plot The era of the big bands, grand ballrooms, and casino nightlife comes alive in The Eddy Duchin Story, a musical biography of the talented pianist and bandleader who set New...
6.4
257 votes
6.4
257 votes
Kiss Me Kate
1953 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Kathryn Grayson · Howard Keel · Ann Miller · Keenan Wynn
Plot Fred and Lilly are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter who has written a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course,...
6.4
242 votes
6.4
242 votes
Chuka
1967 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Rod Taylor · John Mills · Ernest Borgnine · Luciana Paluzzi
6.3
594 votes
6.3
594 votes
Oklahoma!
1955 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Fred Zinnemann
Cast Gordon MacRae · Shirley Jones · Charlotte Greenwood · Rod Steiger
Plot Set in the times of the early 1900s', the musical is partially about the Indian Territory becoming the state of Oklahoma. Curly is a stubborn cowboy who had trouble admitting...
6.3
466 votes
6.3
466 votes