Cast: Bob Dishy
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Bob Dishy. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 20
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
Columbo: The Greenhouse Jungle (TV)
1972 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
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
Act Break/The Burning Man/Dealer's Choice (Ep)
1985 · Movie · 60 min. · United States
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...
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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...
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It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (TV)
1974 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
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...
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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.
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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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