Cast: Chuck Connors

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


The Big Country

1958 · Movie · 159 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Gregory Peck · Jean Simmons · Charlton Heston · Burl Ives

Synopsis In a dry, parched canyon located in the southwest, a rich rancher battles it out with a poor counterpart for water rights. Yet in fact, neither man has control of the precious liquid. It really belongs to Julie Maragon, and...

8.0

12K votes

8.0

12K votes

Roots (TV Miniseries)

1977 · Series · 573 min. · United States

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · John Erman · David Greene · Gilbert Moses

Cast Todd Bridges · Robert Reed · John Amos · Madge Sinclair

Synopsis From the moment the young Kunta Kinte (LeVar Burton) is stolen from his life and ancestral home in 18th-century Africa and brought under inhumane conditions to be auctioned as a slave in America, a line is begun that leads from...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Designing Woman

1957 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gregory Peck · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Gray · Tom Helmore

Synopsis On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and know nothing about each other. Also Mike feels depressed because...

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Soylent Green

1973 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Charlton Heston · Leigh Taylor-Young · Edward G. Robinson · Chuck Connors

Synopsis In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.

6.7

9K votes

6.7

9K votes

Pat and Mike

1952 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Aldo Ray · William Ching

Synopsis Pat Pemberton is a women's sports sensation - a champion in golf, tennis, and whatever else she decides to do. Knowing a good thing when he sees it, Mike Conovan becomes her manager. Mike has made his living fixing sports...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Old Yeller

1957 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Dorothy McGuire · Fess Parker · Jeff York · Chuck Connors

Synopsis Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860's. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with...

6.4

203 votes

6.4

203 votes

Naked Alibi

1954 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Hopper

Cast Sterling Hayden · Gloria Grahame · Gene Barry · Marcia Henderson

Synopsis Questioned by the police, a drunk Al Willis attacks his police questioners. He gets beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues...

6.2

85 votes

6.2

85 votes

The Rifleman (TV Series)

1958 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Joseph H. Lewis · Arnold Laven · Arthur H. Nadel · Gene Nelson

Cast Chuck Connors · Johnny Crawford · Paul Fix · Bill Quinn

Synopsis The adventures of a Wild West rancher who wields a customized Winchester rifle.

6.1

94 votes

6.1

94 votes

Move Over, Darling

1963 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Michael Gordon

Cast Doris Day · James Garner · Polly Bergen · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis Remake of My Favorite Wife, 1940, with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.

5.9

405 votes

5.9

405 votes

Good Morning, Miss Dove

1955 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Jennifer Jones · Robert Stack · Kipp Hamilton · Robert Douglas

Synopsis A devoted teacher sacrifices personal happiness to stay with her students. Miss Dove is a strict disciplinary, plus a well respected teacher, who has inspired her students to individual greatness. One day during class, Miss Dove experiences great pain in...

5.9

56 votes

5.9

56 votes

Go Kill Everybody and Come Back Alone

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Enzo G. Castellari

Cast Chuck Connors · Frank Wolff · Franco Citti · Leo Anchóriz

Synopsis Clyde is hired by a Confederate General to carry out a raid on a Union stronghold and steal the million dollars worth of gold coins hidden there amongst an arsenal of dynamite. Clyde recruits a troop of five unsavoury characters...

5.8

77 votes

5.8

77 votes

Salmonberries

1991 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany

Direction Percy Adlon

Cast Rosel Zech · K.D. Lang · Eugene Omiak · Wayne Waterman

Synopsis A woman who grew up in a small town in Alaska goes to the public library to try and find out who her parents were. She was brought to town as a baby in a cardboard box with "Kotzebue" on...

5.7

68 votes

5.7

68 votes

South Sea Woman

1953 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Lubin

Cast Burt Lancaster · Virginia Mayo · Chuck Connors · Arthur Shields

Synopsis Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl...

5.6

81 votes

5.6

81 votes

The Deserter (The Devil's Backbone)

1971 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Niksa Fulgosi · Burt Kennedy

Cast Bekim Fehmiu · Richard Crenna · Chuck Connors · Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis Bitter over his wife's death due to what he believes was army negligence, Capt. Viktor Kaleb deserts the cavalry and disappears into the southwestern wasteland. But when marauding Apaches set up a stronghold just out of the cavalry's reach in...

5.6

107 votes

5.6

107 votes

Virus (Day of Resurrection)

1980 · Movie · 156 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Glenn Ford · Robert Vaughn · Masao Kusakari · George Kennedy

Synopsis A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction.

5.6

215 votes

5.6

215 votes

Support Your Local Gunfighter

1971 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Burt Kennedy

Cast James Garner · Suzanne Pleshette · Jack Elam · Joan Blondell

Synopsis A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies.PL: Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

5.4

308 votes

5.4

308 votes

Geronimo

1962 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Arnold Laven

Cast Chuck Connors · Kamala Devi · Pat Conway · Armando Silvestre

Synopsis An Apache warrior named Geronimo (Chuck Connors) wages battle against the U.S. military who are on a mission to oppress the Indians and thus bring them under State control. A group of sympathetic scouts set out to bring Geronimo back...

5.4

298 votes

5.4

298 votes

Trouble Along the Way

1953 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Wayne · Donna Reed · Charles Coburn · Tom Tully

Synopsis Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.

5.4

50 votes

5.4

50 votes

Tourist Trap

1979 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction David Schmoeller

Cast Chuck Connors · Jocelyn Jones · Jon Van Ness · Robin Sherwood

Synopsis Four people go in search of their missing friend. What they find is Slausen's Lost Oasis, and mannequin dressed museum and a seemingly abadoned mansion owned by gentle old Mr. Slausen. He agrees to help with thei car trouble, but...

5.3

652 votes

5.3

652 votes

Airplane II: The Sequel

1982 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction Ken Finkleman

Cast Robert Hays · Julie Hagerty · Lloyd Bridges · Peter Graves

Synopsis The 1982 sequel to Airplane! is basically more of the same class-clown ironies but with a more forced feeling to the jokes. In the first film, veterans such as Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges were feeling their way...

5.3

8K votes

5.3

8K votes