Cast: Roy Poole
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Roy Poole. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 14
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.
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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.
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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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O. Henry's Christmas (TV)
1996 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Zaks · John Driver · Francesco Quinn
Cast Anthony Quinn · Eli Wallach · Roberta Wallach · Ariana Munker
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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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