Cast: Joseph Wiseman

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


¡Viva Zapata!

1952 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Marlon Brando · Anthony Quinn · Jean Peters · Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis Emiliano Zapata is a Mexican peon whose tribal land is stolen under the corrupt administration of Porfirio Díaz. Seeking justice, he and his fellow villagers join the revolutionaries under Madero. Zapata rises to the rank of General in the rebel...

7.5

5K votes

7.5

5K votes

Detective Story

1951 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Kirk Douglas · Eleanor Parker · Lee Grant · William Bendix

Synopsis On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem him; a pair of blustering, but dangerous, burglars; a charmingly...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Unforgiven

1960 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Burt Lancaster · Audrey Hepburn · Audie Murphy · John Saxon

Synopsis The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.

7.0

3K votes

7.0

3K votes

Crime Story (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Adamson · Gustave Reininger · Leon Ichaso · Aaron Lipstadt

Cast Dennis Farina · Tony Denison · John Santucci · Stephen Lang

Synopsis The saga of a Chicago police detective's efforts to stop a young hood's ruthless rise in the ranks of organized crime. Chicago, 1963. As head of the police department's Major Crime Unit, Lieutenant Michael Torello must deal with the city's...

6.9

127 votes

6.9

127 votes

Dr. No

1962 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Sean Connery · Ursula Andress · Jack Lord · Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis In the first James Bond spy classic, Sean Connery is the ever-suave and fearless secret Agent 007 on a mission in Jamaica to thwart a fanatical scientist's world-threatening scheme.

6.8

31K votes

6.8

31K votes

Masada (TV Miniseries)

1981 · Series · 394 min. · United States

Direction Boris Sagal

Cast Peter O'Toole · Peter Strauss · Barbara Carrera · Anthony Quayle

Synopsis Flavius Silva, commander in Roman Palestine, wants to reach a reasonable compromise with the Jewish Zealots and withdraw his legion. Events and personalities in Rome, however, lead to his besieging the fortress of Masada. There the engineering genius of the...

6.8

404 votes

6.8

404 votes

QB VII (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1974 · Series · 390 min. · United States

Direction Tom Gries

Cast Ben Gazzara · Anthony Hopkins · Leslie Caron · Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis A physician sues a novelist for publishing statements implicating the doctor in Nazi war crimes.

6.7

47 votes

6.7

47 votes

Les Miserables

1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Michael Rennie · Debra Paget · Robert Newton · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced to ten years as a galley slave. There he meets Javert, an obsessive policeman who was himself born to convict parents. After his release, Valjean...

6.7

94 votes

6.7

94 votes

Crime Story (TV)

1986 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Abel Ferrara

Cast Dennis Farina · Tony Denison · Bill Smitrovich · Steve Ryan

Synopsis Chicago, 1963: Lieutenant Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) is a hair-triggered cop who can bend the law and pummel punks in the same breath. Ray Luca (Anthony Denison) is a ruthless young gangster on the rise in the vicious Chicago underworld....

6.4

102 votes

6.4

102 votes

Lawman

1971 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Michael Winner

Cast Burt Lancaster · Robert Ryan · Lee J. Cobb · Sheree North

Synopsis A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.

6.3

671 votes

6.3

671 votes

The Garment Jungle

1957 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman · Robert Aldrich

Cast Lee J. Cobb · Kerwin Mathews · Gia Scala · Richard Boone

Synopsis Tulio Renata (Robert Loggia), an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, campaigns to unionize the employees of dress factory owner Walter Mitchell (Lee J. Cobb). Viscerally opposed to the union, Mitchell has hired Artie Ravidge (Richard Boone) to...

6.3

160 votes

6.3

160 votes

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

1974 · Movie · 121 min. · Canada

Direction Ted Kotcheff

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Micheline Lanctôt · Jack Warden · Randy Quaid

Synopsis It took a pair of Canadian ex-pats to beat Hollywood at its own game. The nascent Canadian film industry of the seventies suffered from two shortcomings when it came to making commercial films that could compete in the marketplace: a...

6.2

59 votes

6.2

59 votes

The F.B.I. (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Virgil W. Vogel · Don Medford · Jesse Hibbs · William Hale

Cast Efrem Zimbalist Jr. · Philip Abbott · Marvin Miller · William Reynolds

Synopsis TV Series (1965-1974) 241 episodes. Cases, based on real FBI files, were handled by Inspector Lewis Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and several coworkers over the years.

6.1

23 votes

6.1

23 votes

The Valachi Papers

1972 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Terence Young

Cast Charles Bronson · Lino Ventura · Jill Ireland · Walter Chiari

Synopsis When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the...

6.1

473 votes

6.1

473 votes

Direction Lamont Johnson

Cast Joseph Wiseman · Katherine Squire · Trevor Bardette · Gage Clarke

Synopsis Wealthy Paul Radin tries to get three people from his past to apologize to him by offering them shelter from a staged and phony nuclear war scenario.

6.1

67 votes

6.1

67 votes

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

1979 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Haller

Cast Gil Gerard · Pamela Hensley · Erin Gray · Henry Silva

Synopsis A 20th century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time where Earth is threatened by alien invaders.

5.8

231 votes

5.8

231 votes

The Prodigal

1955 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Lana Turner · Edmund Purdom · Louis Calhern · Audrey Dalton

Synopsis A young Hebrew named Micah, unsatisfied with his father's rural life, demands his inheritance so he can try his luck in the city. Once in the city he falls under the spell of a beautiful pagan priestess who induces him...

5.6

91 votes

5.6

91 votes

The Night They Raided Minsky's

1968 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Jason Robards · Britt Ekland · Norman Wisdom · Forrest Tucker

Synopsis Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local...

5.4

42 votes

5.4

42 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