Cast: Lionel Stander

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


Once Upon a Time in the West

1968 · Movie · 165 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Henry Fonda · Charles Bronson · Claudia Cardinale · Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) is a sweeping epic set in the American Old West. The story revolves around a mysterious harmonica-playing stranger, a vengeful outlaw, a ruthless gunslinger, and a recently widowed woman. Their fates intertwine...

8.2

25K votes

8.2

25K votes

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft · Lionel Stander

Synopsis When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist (Jean Arthur). Suddenly, he becomes the target of ruthless businessmen and relatives.

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

Hangmen Also Die!

1943 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Brian Donlevy · Walter Brennan · Anna Lee · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis An apocryphal version of the assassination of the Nazi leader and Czech "protector" Reinhard Heydrich by a resistance fighter in World War II. The story follows the assassin as he evades the widening Nazi dragnet, protected by his fellow Czechs...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

Call Northside 777

1948 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Henry Hathaway

Cast James Stewart · Richard Conte · Lee J. Cobb · Helen Walker

Synopsis In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty....

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

A Star is Born

1937 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Fredric March · Janet Gaynor · Adolphe Menjou · May Robson

Synopsis Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of alcoholic star Norman Maine, is given a test, and is caught up in the Hollywood glamor...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Unfaithfully Yours

1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Rex Harrison · Linda Darnell · Kurt Kreuger · Barbara Lawrence

Synopsis Sir Alfred De Carter suspects his wife of infidelity. While conducting a symphony orchestra, he imagines three different ways of dealing with the situation. When the concert ends, he tries acting out his fantasies, but things do not go as...

7.0

473 votes

7.0

473 votes

Cul-de-sac

1966 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Donald Pleasence · Françoise Dorléac · Lionel Stander · Jack MacGowran

Synopsis A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

New York, New York

1977 · Movie · 163 min. · United States

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Robert De Niro · Liza Minnelli · Lionel Stander · Barry Primus

Synopsis The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the top.

6.8

5K votes

6.8

5K votes

Caliber 9

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

6.8

359 votes

6.8

359 votes

Between Miracles

1971 · Movie · 122 min. · Italy

6.6

96 votes

6.6

96 votes

The Gay Deception

1935 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Francis Lederer · Frances Dee · Benita Hume · Alan Mowbray

Synopsis Mirabel wins a $5,000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she does get to be a queen after all.

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

The Last Gangster

1937 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Edward Ludwig

Cast Edward G. Robinson · James Stewart · Rose Stradner · Lionel Stander

Synopsis Joe Krozac is a big shot mob kingpin with an ego to match his status in the underworld. Whenever his territory is encroached on, as with the Kile Brothers, he ruthlessness doesn't stop at murder. He returns from a European...

6.5

188 votes

6.5

188 votes

6.5

204 votes

If You Could Only Cook

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Herbert Marshall · Jean Arthur · Leo Carrillo · Lionel Stander

Synopsis Auto magnate James Buchanan has a fiancée who doesn't love him and a board of directors who won't listen to him. Brooding on a park bench, he meets unemployed Joan Hawthorne, a fine cook who needs a partner to apply...

6.3

33 votes

6.3

33 votes

The Milky Way

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Harold Lloyd · Adolphe Menjou · Helen Mack · Verree Teasdale

Synopsis Director Leo McCarey's charmingly funny THE MILKY WAY stars the fabulous silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd in one of his first talkies. Softie milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) ducks at just the right moment during a brawl, and the avoided punch knocks...

6.3

649 votes

6.3

649 votes

The Loved One

1965 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Robert Morse · Anjanette Comer · Jonathan Winters · Dana Andrews

Synopsis A clash of cultures is under way when a young British poet must come to California to preside over the burial of his Hollywood star uncle. He encounters a tawdry mortuary business in this wildly black and strange comedy based...

6.2

264 votes

6.2

264 votes

The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

1947 · Movie · 89 min. · United States

Direction Preston Sturges

Cast Harold Lloyd · Jimmy Conlin · Raymond Walburn · Rudy Vallee

Synopsis Twenty years after his triumphs as a freshman on the football field, Harold is a mild-mannered clerk who dreams about marrying the girl at the desk down the aisle. But losing his job destroys that dream, and when he finds...

6.2

329 votes

6.2

329 votes

Dirty Weekend

1973 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Oliver Reed · Carole André · Lionel Stander

Synopsis A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

St. Benny the Dip

1951 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Dick Haymes · Nina Foch · Roland Young · Lionel Stander

Synopsis A gang of con artists disguise themselves as clerics in order to pull off a job, but soon find that even pretending to be religious people is having an effect on them.

6.0

34 votes

6.0

34 votes

Guadalcanal Diary

1943 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Seiler

Cast Preston Foster · Lloyd Nolan · William Bendix · Richard Conte

Synopsis Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

6.0

295 votes

6.0

295 votes