Cast: Joseph Wiseman
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joseph Wiseman. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 41
¡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
The Twilight Zone: One More Pallbearer (TV)
1962 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
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
Crack the Case (S)
2012 · Movie · 1 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Cast Daniel Craig · Bérénice Marlohe · Chris de Almeida · Gin Wigmore
5.6
22 votes
5.6
22 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