Cast: Lew Ayres

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


All Quiet on the Western Front

1930 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Lew Ayres · Louis Wolheim · John Wray · Arnold Lucy

Synopsis All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) follows a group of young German soldiers enlisting in World War I, inspired by patriotic fervor. Through the eyes of protagonist Paul Bäumer, the film depicts their brutal disillusionment as they face the...

7.8

7K votes

7.8

7K votes

Advise & Consent

1962 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Otto Preminger

Cast Walter Pidgeon · Don Murray · Charles Laughton · Henry Fonda

Synopsis Robert Leffingwell is the president's candidate for Secretary of State. Prior to his approval, he must first go through a Senate investigation to determine if he's qualified. Leading the Senate committee is idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, who soon finds himself...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Holiday

1938 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · Lew Ayres · Doris Dolan

Synopsis Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business, he rebels, wishing instead to spend the early years of...

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

The Dark Mirror

1946 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Lew Ayres · Thomas Mitchell · Richard Long

Synopsis A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder, a psychiatrist is called in to assist a detective in solving the case. Through a...

7.2

3K votes

7.2

3K votes

Johnny Belinda

1948 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Jean Negulesco

Cast Jane Wyman · Lew Ayres · Charles Bickford · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis In a small fishing village on the island of Cape Breton, Dr. Robert Richardson takes aninterest in a sweet deaf mute named Belinda. He teaches her sign language and lip reading, and she soon falls in love with him. When...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Kiss

1929 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

Direction Jacques Feyder

Cast Greta Garbo · Conrad Nagel · Holmes Herbert · Anders Randolf

Synopsis Irene (Greta Garbo) is unhappily married to an older businessman, but very much in love with a handsome young lawyer. He doesn't want to add to her unhappiness by ruining her marriage; she is terrified of her husband's jealousy and...

7.0

168 votes

7.0

168 votes

State Fair

1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Henry King

Cast Janet Gaynor · Will Rogers · Lew Ayres · Sally Eilers

Synopsis Stong's 1932 novel is the basis for the popular film with Pat Boone and Ann-Margret and the recent Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical. The plot follows the adventures of the Frake family at the Iowa State Fair in the late...

6.9

66 votes

6.9

66 votes

The Unfaithful

1947 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Ann Sheridan · Lew Ayres · Zachary Scott · Eve Arden

Synopsis Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

6.9

86 votes

6.9

86 votes

That's Entertainment, Part II

1976 · Documentary · 126 min. · United States

Direction Gene Kelly

Cast Fred Astaire · Gene Kelly · Judy Garland · Mickey Rooney

Synopsis Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers.

6.8

165 votes

6.8

165 votes

The Carpetbaggers

1963 · Movie · 150 min. · United States

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast George Peppard · Carroll Baker · Alan Ladd · Robert Cummings

Synopsis George Peppard plays a hard-driven industrialist more than a little reminiscent of Howard Hughes. While he builds airplanes, directs movies and breaks hearts, his friends and lovers try to reach his human side, and find that it's an uphill battle....

6.6

419 votes

6.6

419 votes

The Doorway to Hell

1930 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo

Cast Lew Ayres · Dorothy Mathews · Leon Janney · Robert Elliott

Synopsis Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate each other. With the success of his leadership, Louie prospers, marries Doris and retires to Florida to...

6.5

108 votes

6.5

108 votes

Columbo: Mind Over Mayhem (TV)

1974 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Alf Kjellin

Cast Peter Falk · José Ferrer · Lew Ayres · Robert Walker Jr.

Synopsis The director of a government institute that employs various scientific geniuses commits a clever murder. But another kind of genius is on the case: Lt. Columbo.

6.4

245 votes

6.4

245 votes

Salem's Lot (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Series · 184 min. · United States

Direction Tobe Hooper

Cast David Soul · James Mason · Lance Kerwin · Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis Writer Ben Mears (David Soul, "Starsky and Hutch") returns to his hometown of Jerusalem’s Lot in Maine where he becomes interested in writing a novel set around the sinister old mansion that overlooks the town. But suddenly the town is...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

6.2

594 votes

The Capture

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John Sturges

Cast Lew Ayres · Teresa Wright · Victor Jory · Jacqueline White

Synopsis Badly injured and hunted by the police, Lin Vanner takes refuge in a priest's home, and tells him what has happened. When Vanner was working in a Mexican oil field, he captured a man who was suspected of a payroll...

6.0

25 votes

6.0

25 votes

Damien: Omen II

1978 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Don Taylor · Mike Hodges

Cast William Holden · Lee Grant · Jonathan Scott Taylor · Robert Foxworth

Synopsis It is seven years later after Damien Thorn’s father tried to kill him. He is now a teenager, living in Chicago with his uncle Richard, the head of the multi-national Thorn Corporation. Damien and his cousin Mark are placed in...

6.0

4K votes

6.0

4K votes

5.9

128 votes

Battlestar Galactica

1978 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Richard A. Colla

Cast Richard Hatch · Dirk Benedict · Lorne Greene · Herbert Jefferson Jr.

Synopsis After the destruction of the human colonies, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift refugee fleet in a search for Earth.

5.8

971 votes

5.8

971 votes

The Miracle of Sound (S)

1940 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Shearer

Cast Clark Gable · Hedy Lamarr · Spencer Tracy · Norma Shearer

Synopsis MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer takes us for a behind the scenes look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. Uses Bitter Sweet (1940) (a Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy picture) and Comrade X (1940) to...

5.6

36 votes

5.6

36 votes

The Magician (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bruce Lansbury · Bill Bixby · Arnold Laven · Sutton Roley

Cast Bill Bixby · Keene Curtis · Joseph Sirola · Todd Crespi

Synopsis Anthony Blake is a very compassionate and wealthy magician, who uses his talents as an illusionist and escape artist to help people in trouble. Max Pomeroy, a friend who is a syndicated columnist, describes him as "One of the few...

5.3

38 votes

5.3

38 votes