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

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