Cast: Don DeFore

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


A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1958 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast John Gavin · Liselotte Pulver · Jock Mahoney · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis In 1944, a company of German soldiers on the Russian front are numbed by the horrors and hardships of war when Private Ernst Graeber's long awaited furlough comes through. Back home in Germany, he finds his home bombed. While hopelessly...

7.6

2K votes

7.6

2K votes

Too Late for Tears

1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Lizabeth Scott · Don DeFore · Dan Duryea · Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer's back seat. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane, with luxury within her...

6.9

274 votes

6.9

274 votes

Dark City

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction William Dieterle

Cast Charlton Heston · Lizabeth Scott · Viveca Lindfors · Dean Jagger

Synopsis Danny Haley's bookie operation is shut down, so he and his pals need money; when Danny meets Arthur Winant, a sucker from out of town, he decoys him into a series of poker games where eventually Winant loses $5000 that...

6.6

495 votes

6.6

495 votes

It Happened on 5th Avenue

1947 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Don DeFore · Ann Harding · Charles Ruggles · Victor Moore

Synopsis A hobo and friends take up residence in a mansion whilst the family is away on Christmas holiday.

6.6

32 votes

6.6

32 votes

Ramrod

1947 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Joel McCrea · Veronica Lake · Don DeFore · Donald Crisp

Synopsis A cattle-vs.-sheepman feud loses Connie Dickason her fiance, but gains her his ranch, which she determines to run alone in opposition to Frank Ivey, "boss" of the valley, whom her father Ben wanted her to marry. She hires recovering alcoholic...

6.6

324 votes

6.6

324 votes

Thirty Seconds over Tokyo

1944 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Spencer Tracy · Van Johnson · Robert Walker · Robert Mitchum

Synopsis This is the story of the famed raid over Tokyo in April 1942 led by Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle. The film concentrates on Lt. Ted Lawson the commander of a B25, the 'Ruptured Duck', and its crew. Having accepted the...

6.3

574 votes

6.3

574 votes

A Guy Named Joe

1943 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Irene Dunne · Van Johnson · Ward Bond

Synopsis A sentimental, patriotic (if not propagandistic) Hollywood fantasy about a dead World War II bomber pilot, Maj. Pete Sandidge (Tracy) who becomes guardian angel to another pilot, Capt. Ted Randall (Johnson), guiding Randall through battle and helping him to romance...

6.2

199 votes

6.2

199 votes

Southside 1-1000

1950 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Boris Ingster

Cast Don DeFore · Andrea King · George Tobias · Barry Kelley

Synopsis The US secret service goes after a counterfeit ring, whose engraver Eugene Deane has covertly constructed his plates while serving a life sentence in San Quentin. In order to infiltrate the gang, federal agent John Riggs poses as an Eastern...

6.0

27 votes

6.0

27 votes

No Room for the Groom

1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Douglas Sirk

Cast Tony Curtis · Piper Laurie · Don DeFore · Spring Byington

Synopsis Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more delays to the consummation, caused by Lee's manipulative...

5.9

36 votes

5.9

36 votes

My Friend Irma

1949 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction George Marshall

Cast John Lund · Marie Wilson · Diana Lynn · Don DeFore

Synopsis Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane.

5.9

45 votes

5.9

45 votes

The Male Animal

1942 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Elliott Nugent

Cast Henry Fonda · Olivia de Havilland · Joan Leslie · Jack Carson

Synopsis The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in...

5.8

41 votes

5.8

41 votes

5.7

321 votes

Without Reservations

1946 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Claudette Colbert · John Wayne · Anne Triola · Don DeFore

Synopsis Kit Madden is traveling to Hollywood, where her best-selling novel is to be filmed. Aboard the train, she encounters Marines Rusty and Dink, who don't know she is the author of the famous book, and who don't think much of...

5.7

90 votes

5.7

90 votes

A Girl in Every Port

1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Chester Erskine

Cast Groucho Marx · Marie Wilson · William Bendix · Don DeFore

Synopsis After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realise that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.

5.7

53 votes

5.7

53 votes

The Facts of Life

1960 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Frank

Cast Bob Hope · Lucille Ball · Ruth Hussey · Peter Leeds

Synopsis Larry and Kitty are two middle-class suburbanites who find themselves growing bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other grating in manner, they find themselves falling in love when thrown together without their spouses on...

5.7

71 votes

5.7

71 votes

Romance on the High Seas

1948 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Jack Carson · Janis Paige · Don DeFore · Doris Day

Synopsis A wife suspects her husband of having a roving eye. Her husband suspects the same about her. His business deals mean he has to cancel their anniversary vacation every year. So this year, in order to snoop on her dearly...

5.6

49 votes

5.6

49 votes

Jumping Jacks

1952 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Dean Martin · Jerry Lewis · Mona Freeman · Don DeFore

Synopsis Nightclub comic Hap Smith assumes the identity of another soldier so he can tour army bases in a revue with his ex-partner Chuck Allen.

5.5

94 votes

5.5

94 votes

Rare Breed

1984 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction David Nelson

Cast George Kennedy · Forrest Tucker · Tom Hallick · Don DeFore

Synopsis A real life story of a kidnapped horse in Italy and a young girl's quest to retrieve it.

Not rated

Not rated

Wings for the Eagle

1942 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Lloyd Bacon

Cast Ann Sheridan · Dennis Morgan · Jack Carson · George Tobias

Synopsis Set at a factory that makes aircraft for World War II, Roma and Brad Maple's marriage begins to show signs of difficulty. Their problems get worse when Brad's friend Corky, who wants to work at the factory to avoid being...

Not rated

Not rated

One Sunday Afternoon

1948 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Dennis Morgan · Janis Paige · Don DeFore · Dorothy Malone

Synopsis A dentist in turn-of-the-century New York thinks he may have married the wrong girl.

Not rated

Not rated