Cast: Lew Ayres
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Lew Ayres. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 87
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
Salem's Lot: The Movie
1979 · Movie · 112 min. · United States
Direction Tobe Hooper
Cast David Soul · James Mason · Lance Kerwin · Bonnie Bedelia
6.2
594 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
Donovan's Brain
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Felix E. Feist
Cast Lew Ayres · Gene Evans · Nancy Reagan · Steve Brodie
5.9
128 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