Cast: Anne Francis

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


The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Bad Day at Black Rock

1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Ryan · Lee Marvin · Anne Francis

Plot One of the first Hollywood films to deal openly with white racism toward Japanese Americans during World War II, this drama directed by 1950s action maestro John Sturges (The Great...

7.6

6K votes

7.6

6K votes

The Blackboard Jungle

1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Glenn Ford · Sidney Poitier · Anne Francis · Vic Morrow

Plot Richard Dadier earns a teaching assignment at a tough high school, where the teenagers make the rules and the staff meekly accept the fact that they've lost control. When Dadier...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

The Twilight Zone: The After Hours (TV)

1960 · Movie · 25 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Heyes

Cast Anne Francis · Elizabeth Allen · James Millhollin · John Conwell

Plot Marsha White is looking for a gold thimble as a gift for her mother. She can't find it anywhere in the store and an elevator operator suggests she try the...

7.0

164 votes

7.0

164 votes

Forbidden Planet

1956 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Fred M. Wilcox

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Anne Francis · Leslie Nielsen · Warren Stevens

Plot An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its...

7.0

6K votes

7.0

6K votes

Funny Girl

1968 · Movie · 155 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Barbra Streisand · Omar Sharif · Kay Medford · Anne Francis

Plot In FUNNY GIRL, the highly fictionalized musical biopic, Barbara Streisand makes her film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Rogue Cop

1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Roy Rowland

Cast Robert Taylor · Janet Leigh · George Raft · Steve Forrest

Plot Detective Chris Kelvaney has a brother, Eddie, who also is a policeman. He witnessed a murderer running away from the scene of the crime. Chris has contacts with the gangster...

6.7

177 votes

6.7

177 votes

A Lion Is in the Streets

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Barbara Hale · Anne Francis · Warner Anderson

Plot A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

6.5

286 votes

6.5

286 votes

Columbo: A Stitch in Crime (TV)

1973 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Hy Averback

Cast Peter Falk · Leonard Nimoy · Anne Francis · Nita Talbot

Plot A surgeon has an ingenious plan for murdering his partner in a research project, but a nurse catches onto the scheme.

6.5

309 votes

6.5

309 votes

Route 66 (TV Series)

1960 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction David Lowell Rich · Arthur Hiller · Tom Gries · George Sherman

Cast Martin Milner · George Maharis · Glenn Corbett · Elizabeth MacRae

Plot Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964....

6.3

25 votes

6.3

25 votes

Columbo: Short Fuse (TV)

1972 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Edward M. Abroms

Cast Peter Falk · Roddy McDowall · Anne Francis · James Gregory

Plot A chemical plant's director gets threats and issues threats, and one of the employees develops and plants a bomb in his car. When the car turns out to be missing,...

6.3

304 votes

6.3

304 votes

Battle Cry

1955 · Movie · 149 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Van Heflin · Aldo Ray · Mona Freeman · Nancy Olson

Plot Non-stop action characterizes this World War II epic with an all-star cast. The heroic exploits of a Marine battalion are followed from basic training through the bloody invasion of Aaipan....

6.2

322 votes

6.2

322 votes

Brainstorm

1965 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction William Conrad

Cast Jeffrey Hunter · Anne Francis · Dana Andrews · Viveca Lindfors

Plot A young scientist saves an attractive married woman from a suicide attempt, becomes romantically involved with her, plots to kill her husband, and then fakes insanity to escape the murder...

5.9

70 votes

5.9

70 votes

Susan Slept Here

1954 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tashlin

Cast Dick Powell · Debbie Reynolds · Anne Francis · Alvy Moore

Plot Comedy about a struggling Hollywood scriptwriter (Dick Powell) who, one Christmas Eve, receives a very unexpected present - juvenile delinquant Debbie Reynolds.

5.9

91 votes

5.9

91 votes

Police Woman (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Robert E. Collins · Alvin Ganzer · John Newland · Barry Shear

Cast Angie Dickinson · Earl Holliman · Charles Dierkop · Ed Bernard

Plot TV Series (1974-1978). 4 temporadas. 91 episodes. The show revolves around Sgt. Suzanne “Pepper” Anderson (Angie Dickinson), an undercover police officer working for the Los Angeles Police Department. Sgt. William...

5.8

120 votes

5.8

120 votes

The Twilight Zone: Jess-Belle (TV)

1963 · Movie · 51 min. · United States

Direction Buzz Kulik

Cast Anne Francis · James Best · Laura Devon · Jeanette Nolan

Plot Appalachian beauty Jess-Belle can't bear to lose the object of her passion to the local rich girl, so she turns to the local witch for aid. The results bring unexpected...

5.8

44 votes

5.8

44 votes

Riptide (TV Series)

1984 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · Frank Lupo · Michael Lange · Bob Bralver

Cast Perry King · Joe Penny · Thom Bray · Jack Ging

Plot Three vietnam veterans (Nick Ryder, Cody Allen and Murray Bozinsky) now work as private eyes in sunny southern California. Nick and Cody are the muscles and Murray is a computer...

5.8

25 votes

5.8

25 votes

The Satan Bug

1965 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast George Maharis · Richard Basehart · Anne Francis · Dana Andrews

Plot Lee Barrett was until recently a security officer at Station 3, a top secret government laboratory. He was fired for insubordination but is called back to duty by General Williams...

5.8

195 votes

5.8

195 votes

The Rack

1956 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Paul Newman · Wendell Corey · Walter Pidgeon · Edmond O'Brien

Plot Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the korean war. In the camp he was brainwashed and helped the Chinese convince the...

5.8

191 votes

5.8

191 votes

Lydia Bailey

1952 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Dale Robertson · Anne Francis · Charles Korvin · William Marshall

Plot A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture,...

5.8

98 votes

5.8

98 votes