Cast: Ben Vereen

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


All That Jazz

1979 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Bob Fosse

Cast Roy Scheider · Jessica Lange · Leland Palmer · Ann Reinking

Plot Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical film celebrates show business stripped of glitz or giddy illusions. Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors...

7.5

10K votes

7.5

10K 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

Plot 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...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

Anno Domini (TV Miniseries)

1985 · Series · 350 min. · United Kingdom

6.7

100 votes

6.7

100 votes

Ellis Island (TV Miniseries)

1984 · Movie · 420 min. · United States

6.3

25 votes

6.3

25 votes

Funny Lady

1975 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Barbra Streisand · James Caan · Omar Sharif · Roddy McDowall

Plot When Barbra Streisand played Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, she brought to life a sympathetic yet strong-headed performer of stage and radio. In the sequel, Funny Lady, Brice comes off...

5.6

450 votes

5.6

450 votes

Puss in Boots (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)

1985 · Movie · 54 min. · United States

Direction Robert Iscove

Cast Ben Vereen · Alfre Woodard · Gregory Hines · Brock Peters

Plot Puss (All That Jazz's/Roots' Ben Vereen proves to be one clever cat in this retelling of the Brothers Grimm tale Puss In Boots. In return for some finery and boots,...

5.6

142 votes

5.6

142 votes

Idlewild

2006 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Bryan Barber

Cast André Benjamin · Antwan A. Patton · Terrence Howard · Paula Patton

Plot The story of the loves and ambitions of two struggling performers is told through intricate musical numbers and vibrantly choreographed dance sequences in Idlewild, an original musical starring multi-platinum and...

5.1

329 votes

5.1

329 votes

Intruders (TV)

1992 · Movie · 163 min. · United States

Direction Dan Curtis

Cast Richard Crenna · Mare Winningham · Susan Blakely · Daphne Ashbrook

Plot All over the world, people report they've been visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and medically examined. The authorities appear to know all about these visits but won't acknowledge it...

5.0

120 votes

5.0

120 votes

Time Out of Mind

2014 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Oren Moverman

Cast Richard Gere · Ben Vereen · Jena Malone · Kyra Sedgwick

Plot George (Richard Gere), a man on the decline, enters the New York City homeless shelter system when he runs out of options. George struggles to navigate his way through this...

4.9

1K votes

4.9

1K votes

Gas-s-s-s

1970 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Bob Corff · Elaine Giftos · Bud Cort · Talia Shire

Plot Anarchy goes airborne in the farce about vaporizing the generation gap. When a deadly gas kills everyone over 25, the world devolves into a chaotic, and zany struggle for power....

4.7

108 votes

4.7

108 votes

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (TV)

2016 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Kenny Ortega

Cast Laverne Cox · Victoria Justice · Tim Curry · Christina Milian

Plot A straitlaced, square couple, seeking shelter from a storm, find themselves in the castle of a transgender alien mad scientist intent on creating a buff bodybuilder.

4.4

205 votes

4.4

205 votes

Webster (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Stu Silver · Lee Bernhardi · Joel Zwick · Art Dielhenn

Cast Emmanuel Lewis · Alex Karras · Susan Clark · Cathryn Damon

Plot TV Series (1983-1989). 6 Season. 150 Episodes. In Chicago, Webster Long (Emmanuel Lewis) a seven-year-old African-American orphan whose biological parents were recently killed in a car accident. He is then...

4.3

3K votes

4.3

3K votes

Silk Stalkings (TV Series)

1991 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Stephen J. Cannell · John Paragon · Ralph Hemecker · Carl Weathers

Cast Mitzi Kapture · Rob Estes · Charlie Brill · Janet Gunn

Plot TV Series (1991-1999). Cassandra "Cassy" St. John and Tom Ryan are the new duo in town. It is now their job to catch the killers of Palm Beach. They are...

3.6

308 votes

3.6

308 votes

Not rated

Promised Land (TV Series)

1996 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Martha Williamson · Victor Lobl · Stuart Margolin · Burt Brinckerhoff

Cast Gerald McRaney · Wendy Phillips · Austin O'Brien · Sarah Schaub

Plot When Russell Greene loses his job, he decides to go on the road with his family. So he gathers his wife, Claire, his son, Josh, his daughter, Dinah, his mother,...

Not rated

Not rated

J.J. Starbuck (TV Series)

1987 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Bob Bralver · Kim Manners · Corey Allen · Zale Dalen

Cast Dale Robertson · Shawn Weatherly · Jimmy Dean · Ben Vereen

Plot Texas billionaire J.J. Starbuck drives around the country in a 1961 Lincoln convertible, with horns on the hood, acting as a private detective solving crimes. He charms the police and...

Not rated

Not rated

The Gray House (TV Series)

2024 · Series · min. · United States

Direction Roland Joffé

Cast Daisy Head · Paul Anderson · Robert Knepper · Ben Vereen

Plot It centers on the three women who General Ulysses S. Grant credited as helping the North win the Civil War.

Not rated

Not rated

Feast of All Saints (TV)

2001 · Movie · 255 min. · United States

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Robert Ri'chard · Peter Gallagher · Gloria Reuben · Jennifer Beals

Plot Magloire Dazincourt, the owner of Bontemps, the largest sugar plantation of the entire South, asks his favorite cousin, Philippe Ferronaire, to marry his daughter Aglae Dazincourt and take over most...

Not rated

Not rated

Donny and Marie (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Art Fisher · Perry Rosemond · Walter C. Miller

Cast Donny Osmond · Marie Osmond · Kris Kristofferson · Robert Young

Plot TV Series (1975–1979). 4 Seasons. A variety show, featuring the brother-sister singing duo of Donny and Marie Osmond. The first season also featured all of the Osmond families, but Donny...

Not rated

Not rated

Lost in London (TV)

1985 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Robert Michael Lewis

Cast Emmanuel Lewis · Derek Deadman · Basil Hoskins · Freddie Jones

Plot Diminutive Webster star Emmanuel Lewis is virtually the whole show in this made-for-TV update of Oliver Twist. Upset when his divorced fashion-designer mother (Lynne Moody) relocates to London, 8-year-old Davey...

Not rated

Not rated