Cast: Richard Carlson

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


The Little Foxes

1941 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Teresa Wright · Herbert Marshall · Patricia Collinge

Synopsis The Little Foxes (1941) follows the cunning Hubbard family in the early 20th-century South, as they scheme to secure wealth and power through a lucrative business deal. Regina, the ambitious matriarch, manipulates her ailing husband and clashes with her ruthless...

8.1

6K votes

8.1

6K votes

Back Street

1941 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Charles Boyer · Margaret Sullavan · Richard Carlson · Frank McHugh

Synopsis Pretty Rae Smith and handsome Walter Saxel meet, fall in love and make plans to marry. Unfortunately, their marriage plans get sabotaged when a jealous beau makes Rae miss the ceremony. The two meet many years later in New York,...

7.1

154 votes

7.1

154 votes

The Sound of Fury

1950 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Frank Lovejoy · Kathleen Ryan · Richard Carlson · Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis A man down on his luck falls in with a criminal. After a senseless murder, the two are lynched.

7.0

97 votes

7.0

97 votes

All I Desire

1953 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Richard Carlson · Lyle Bettger · Marcia Henderson

Synopsis In 1900, Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage. Some ten years later, daughter Lily invites Naomi back to see her in the Riverdale high school play. Her arrival sets the whole town abuzz, wakes up...

6.9

356 votes

6.9

356 votes

King Solomon's Mines

1950 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Andrew Marton · Compton Bennett

Cast Deborah Kerr · Stewart Granger · Richard Carlson · Hugo Haas

Synopsis Three adventurers embark on a perilous quest in the wilds of Africa for the famed diamond mines. Academy Award Nominations: 3, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: Best (Color) Cinematography, Best Film Editing.

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6.7

3K votes

6.7

3K votes

Behind Locked Doors

1948 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Budd Boetticher

Cast Lucille Bremer · Richard Carlson · Douglas Fowley · Ralf Harolde

Synopsis A well-known judge has become a fugitive from the police, with a large reward on his head. A reporter believes that the judge is hiding in a private sanitarium, so she seeks out a private investigator and asks him to...

6.5

86 votes

6.5

86 votes

Creature from the Black Lagoon

1954 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Richard Carlson · Julie Adams · Richard Denning · Antonio Moreno

Synopsis The Creature, an amphibious, prehistoric man-monster, inhabits the primordial depths of a tropical lagoon undisturbed until scientists intrude upon his domain. Variously interpreted as a monster from hell and a primitive innocent provoked to violence, the Creature belongs to a...

6.5

3K votes

6.5

3K votes

So Well Remembered

1947 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast John Mills · Martha Scott · Patricia Roc · Trevor Howard

Synopsis On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living...

6.5

37 votes

6.5

37 votes

The Amazing Mr. X

1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Bernard Vorhaus

Cast Turhan Bey · Lynn Bari · Cathy O'Donnell · Richard Carlson

Synopsis On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly...

6.3

56 votes

6.3

56 votes

The Young in Heart

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Janet Gaynor · Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Paulette Goddard · Roland Young

Synopsis The Carletons make a living as card sharps and finding new suckers to mooch off of. When their latest scam backfires, they are asked to leave Monte Carlo. At the train station, they meet a kind old woman named Miss...

6.3

93 votes

6.3

93 votes

Hold That Ghost

1941 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Mischa Auer · Richard Carlson

Synopsis Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

6.2

613 votes

6.2

613 votes

The Helen Morgan Story

1957 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Ann Blyth · Paul Newman · Richard Carlson · Gene Evans

Synopsis The 1920's and 30's career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on Broadway in Ziegfeld's "Show Boat". Her involvement with Larry Maddux,...

6.1

159 votes

6.1

159 votes

Seminole

1953 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

6.1

506 votes

6.1

506 votes

It Came from Outer Space

1953 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Jack Arnold

Cast Richard Carlson · Barbara Rush · Charles Drake · Joe Sawyer

Synopsis A spaceship from another world crashes in the Arizona desert and only an amateur stargazer and a schoolteacher suspect alien influence when the local townsfolk begin to act strangely.

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

The Last Command

1955 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Frank Lloyd

Cast Sterling Hayden · Anna Maria Alberghetti · Richard Carlson · Arthur Hunnicutt

Synopsis Average Texicans Jim Bowie led rebellion – and Davy Crockett – in a last ditch stand against his old friend, Santa Anna. While this is one of the “historical inaccuracies” of the Texas Revolution and the Battle of the Alamo,...

5.8

88 votes

5.8

88 votes

The Magnetic Monster

1953 · Movie · 76 min. · United States

Direction Curt Siodmak · Herbert L. Strock

Cast Richard Carlson · King Donovan · Jean Byron · Harry Ellerbe

Synopsis Working for O.S.I., the Office of Scientific Investigation, A-Man agent Jeffrey Stewart and his partner Dan Forbes are sent to a local hardware store where they find a strong magnetic field has magnetized every metal item in the store. Investigating...

5.7

151 votes

5.7

151 votes

5.7

221 votes

The Blue Veil

1951 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Curtis Bernhardt

Cast Jane Wyman · Charles Laughton · Joan Blondell · Richard Carlson

Synopsis Louise Mason is a young widow who fills her empty life with the task of becoming a children's nurse. As the years pass, and the widow tries to find her own place in life, her young charges, the children of...

5.7

33 votes

5.7

33 votes

Fly-By-Night

1942 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Richard Carlson · Nancy Kelly · Albert Basserman · Miles Mander

Synopsis After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.

5.6

21 votes

5.6

21 votes

Beyond Tomorrow

1940 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Harry Carey · C. Aubrey Smith · Charles Winninger · Alex Melesh

Synopsis Melton, Chadwick and O'Brien, rich but lonely heads of an engineering firm, invite three strangers to dinner on Christmas Eve. Only two show up, James and Jean, they fall in love and become friends with their three benefactors...until the latter...

5.6

44 votes

5.6

44 votes