Cast: Roy Poole

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


Experiment in Terror

1962 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Blake Edwards

Cast Glenn Ford · Lee Remick · Stefanie Powers · Roy Poole

Synopsis Glenn Ford stars as FBI agent John Ripley in Blake Edwards's only foray into the thriller genre. When bank teller Kelly Sherwood (Lee Remick) is confronted in the garage of her San Francisco home by a mysterious man (Ross Martin)...

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Up the Down Staircase

1967 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Sandy Dennis · Eileen Heckart · Jean Stapleton · Patrick Bedford

Synopsis Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up...

6.6

131 votes

6.6

131 votes

Mandingo

1975 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast James Mason · Susan George · Perry King · Roy Poole

Synopsis This overheated melodrama tells the story of a proud slave-owning family in the antebellum South and their eventual descent into adultery, incest, and sexual congress with those of other races. There's a Southern belle who's a panting nymphomaniac, a white...

6.4

757 votes

6.4

757 votes

1776

1972 · Movie · 142 min. · United States

Direction Peter H. Hunt

Cast William Daniels · Howard Da Silva · Ken Howard · Donald Madden

Synopsis 1776 is an acclaimed film version of Peter Stone's 1969 Tony Award for Best Musical. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence...

6.1

38 votes

6.1

38 votes

The Betsy

1978 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Duvall · Katharine Ross · Tommy Lee Jones

Synopsis The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes to eliminate the motor...

5.3

58 votes

5.3

58 votes

Gaily, Gaily

1969 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Beau Bridges · Melina Mercouri · Brian Keith · George Kennedy

Synopsis To escape sinful impulses, Ben Harvey, a callow youth, leaves his small town for Chicago in 1910. A pickpocket promptly relieves him of his money, and he nearly starves before Queen Lil takes him under her wing, gives him a...

5.3

41 votes

5.3

41 votes

A Stranger is Watching

1982 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Sean S. Cunningham

Cast Kate Mulgrew · Rip Torn · James Naughton · Shawn von Schreiber

Synopsis The 11-year old daughter and girlfriend of a man whose wife had been raped and killed in front of his daughter three years earlier are kidnapped by the same killer. Held captive in a bunker below Grand Central Station, the...

5.2

28 votes

5.2

28 votes

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

1978 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Jack Smight

Cast Claudia McNeil · Janet MacLachlan · Robert Christian · Larry B. Scott

Synopsis A three-part drama telling the story of a black girl and her family who try to hold onto their land during the Depression.

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Act of Violence (TV)

1979 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Elizabeth Montgomery · James Sloyan · Sean Frye · Roy Poole

Synopsis Divorced career woman's life changes when she is beaten and robbed by a street gang.

Not rated

Not rated

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (TV)

1979 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Paul Wendkos

Cast Dennis Weaver · Lisa Eilbacher · David Haskell · Stephen Elliott

Synopsis The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerilla organization, as seen by the F.B.I. Agent in charge of her case.

Not rated

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The End of August

1982 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Bob Graham

Cast Sally Sharp · Lilia Skala · David Marshall Grant · Paul Roebling

Synopsis In the turn of the century South, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man. Later, the woman leaves her family and tries to start a new life alone.

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A Cry in the Wilderness (TV)

1974 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Hessler

Cast George Kennedy · Joanna Pettet · Lee Montgomery · Collin Wilcox Paxton

Synopsis The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive...

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The Face of Fear (TV)

1971 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction George McCowan

Cast Ricardo Montalban · Jack Warden · Elizabeth Ashley · Dane Clark

Synopsis A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to...

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Not rated