Cast: Bob Dishy

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


Columbo: Now You See Him (TV)

1976 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Harvey Hart

Cast Peter Falk · Jack Cassidy · Bob Dishy · Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis A stage illusionist kills his employer and makes it look like a contract killing; it's up to Lt. Columbo to trick the master trickster.

6.7

299 votes

6.7

299 votes

Brighton Beach Memoirs

1986 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Gene Saks

Cast Blythe Danner · Bob Dishy · Stacey Glick · Judith Ivey

Synopsis Eugene (Jonathan Silverman) is a teenager who lives in 1937 Brooklyn with his parents (Blythe Danner and Bob Dishy), older brother Stanley (Brian Drillinger), aunt (Judith Ivey) and female cousins (Stacey Glick and Lisa Waltz). Much is made of Eugene's...

6.5

66 votes

6.5

66 votes

Direction Boris Sagal

Cast Peter Falk · Ray Milland · Bob Dishy · Sandra Smith

Synopsis Columbo arrives at a kidnapping case, which at some point turns into a murder. Everything seems to be related to a trust fund, that is being managed by a man with a great love for orchids.

6.4

294 votes

6.4

294 votes

The Wackness

2008 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Levine

Cast Josh Peck · Ben Kingsley · Famke Janssen · Olivia Thirlby

Synopsis Story, set in 1994, centers on a troubled teenage drug dealer and a drug-addled psychiatrist -- after the former trades pot for therapy sessions, then falls for the doctor's daughter.

6.3

713 votes

6.3

713 votes

Columbo (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 120 min. · United States

Direction Richard Levinson · William Link · Patrick McGoohan · Ben Gazzara

Cast Peter Falk · J. P. Finnegan · Robert Culp · Michael Lally

Synopsis TV Series (1971-1978). 12 Seasons. 69 Episodes. Columbo is a scruffy-looking cop who is often underestimated by his fellow officers, and by the murderer du jour. Despite his appearance and superficial absentmindedness, he solves all of his cases and manages...

6.2

12K votes

6.2

12K votes

Author! Author!

1982 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Al Pacino · Dyan Cannon · Tuesday Weld · Bob Dishy

Synopsis Playwright Travalian feels pulled limb from limb these days. He has a Broadway play in rehearsal and they want rewrites. His tramp wife is leaving him, leaving him as well with four children from her previous marriages plus his own...

5.8

530 votes

5.8

530 votes

Don Juan DeMarco

1994 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Jeremy Leven

Cast Johnny Depp · Marlon Brando · Faye Dunaway · Rachel Ticotin

Synopsis In this breezy romantic comedy, an aging psychologist gets a new lease on life when hes assigned the task of "curing" a young man whos convinced he is the legendary lover Don Juan de Marco.

5.7

9K votes

5.7

9K votes

Stay Tuned

1992 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast John Ritter · Pam Dawber · Jeffrey Jones · David Tom

Synopsis John Ritter and Pam Dawber star as Roy and Helen Knable, a suburban American couple having marital problems. Roy has become a couch potato, and a resentful Helen wants him to ditch the remote. When the demonic Spike (Jeffrey Jones)...

5.5

2K votes

5.5

2K votes

Lovers and Other Strangers

1970 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Cy Howard

Cast Bea Arthur · Bonnie Bedelia · Michael Brandon · Richard S. Castellano

Synopsis Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is...

5.5

27 votes

5.5

27 votes

Used People

1992 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Beeban Kidron

Cast Shirley MacLaine · Kathy Bates · Jessica Tandy · Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now...

5.4

129 votes

5.4

129 votes

Critical Condition

1987 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Michael Apted

Cast Richard Pryor · Rachel Ticotin · Rubén Blades · Joe Mantegna

Synopsis When a small-time businessman (Richard Pryor) needs a loan, he goes to a loan shark and ends up in jail on false pretenses. After feigning madness to get out, he is tossed into the mental ward of a hospital.

4.6

791 votes

4.6

791 votes

The Big Bus

1976 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction James Frawley

Cast Joseph Bologna · Stockard Channing · John Beck · Rene Auberjonois

Synopsis A nuclear powered bus is going Non-stop from New York to Denver and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the Oil lobby. When the driver is injured a washed up, down on...

4.4

654 votes

4.4

654 votes

Direction Wes Craven · J.D. Feigelson · Theodore J. Flicker

Cast James Coco · Bob Dishy · Avery Schreiber · Piper Laurie

Synopsis "Act Break": Selfish second-rate playwright Maury Winkler wishes for a better writing partner than his ailing colleague Harry. "The Burning Man": A strange figure appears on the road and tries to hitch a ride during a heat wave in 1936....

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Jonny Zero (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ken Sanzel · Mimi Leder · Félix Enríquez Alcalá · Henry Bronchtein

Cast Sean Moran · GQ · Ritchie Coster · Franky G.

Synopsis 13 episodes, 2005-2007. An ex-con wants to start an honest life. His old crime outfit wants him, as well as an FBI agent who's working on a case against his former partners in crime. All he wants is to regain...

Not rated

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I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?

1975 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Steven Hilliard Stern

Cast Bob Dishy · Joanna Barnes · Bill Dana · Harvey Jason

Synopsis Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested and probably sent to jail. Meanwhile,...

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The Tiger Makes Out

1967 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Eli Wallach · Anne Jackson · Bob Dishy · John Harkins

Synopsis Ben Harris, an embittered, middle-aged New York City postal worker living in a Greenwich Village basement, becomes obsessed with the idea of kidnapping and enslaving the first beautiful young woman he can get his hands on. When he tries to...

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Judy Berlin

1999 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Eric Mendelsohn

Cast Barbara Barrie · Bob Dishy · Edie Falco · Carlin Glynn

Synopsis A lonely, but talented teacher enjoys a flirtation with her married principal, who returns her affections but is hampered by his high-strung wife. He is also hampered by a deadbeat son, who supposedly is becoming a filmmaker. The teacher also...

Not rated

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Direction Cy Howard

Cast Paul Sorvino · Michael Learned · Bob Dishy · Adam Arkin

Synopsis A beautiful woman kidnaps a random family man at gunpoint ("for kicks"), drives him to a secluded spot, orders his to strip naked, and then rapes him in the back seat of her car, before sending him on his way...

Not rated

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The Last Married Couple in America

1980 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Gilbert Cates

Cast George Segal · Natalie Wood · Richard Benjamin · Valerie Harper

Synopsis Mari and Jeff Thompson start to doubt their own marriage when every couple they know separate.

Not rated

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A Fish in the Bathtub

1998 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Joan Micklin Silver

Cast Jerry Stiller · Anne Meara · Mark Ruffalo · Jane Adams

Synopsis Sam (Jerry Stiller) and Molly (Anne Meara) are a classic bickering old couple, and their marriage has been forty years of sparring. Yet, when Sam refuses to move the carp he's keeping in their spare bathroom, Molly becomes fed up...

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