Cast: Buck Henry

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


The Graduate

1967 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Anne Bancroft · Katharine Ross · William Daniels

Plot In the mid-1960s, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a confused college graduate, is pulled in myriad directions by his wealthy family, friends, and associates just days after receiving his degree. Seduced...

7.5

48K votes

7.5

48K votes

Gloria

1980 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Gena Rowlands · Buck Henry · John Adames · Julie Carmen

Plot Jack Dawn and his family are eliminated by the mob, because he was their accountant and was feeding information to the FBI. However his six-year-old Puerto Rican son, Phil, escapes...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

2014 · Documentary · 94 min. · United States

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Orson Welles · Jeanne Moreau · Peter Brook · Costa-Gavras

Plot Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as...

6.7

232 votes

6.7

232 votes

Harrison Bergeron (TV)

1995 · Movie · 99 min. · Canada

Direction Bruce Pittman

Cast Sean Astin · Christopher Plummer · Eugene Levy · Miranda de Pencier

Plot In a distant future, egalitarianism has created a truly equal state. The cost? The sacrifice of everything great about humankind. The question: is peace worth the price?

6.6

33 votes

6.6

33 votes

Taking Off

1971 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

6.5

228 votes

6.5

228 votes

To Die For

1995 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Gus Van Sant

Cast Nicole Kidman · Matt Dillon · Joaquin Phoenix · Alison Folland

Plot Suzanne Stone is an aspiring TV personality who will do anything to be in the spotlight...

6.3

8K votes

6.3

8K votes

Catch-22

1970 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Alan Arkin · Orson Welles · Jon Voight · Anthony Perkins

Plot A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is...

6.2

757 votes

6.2

757 votes

Heaven Can Wait

1978 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Warren Beatty · Buck Henry

Cast Warren Beatty · Julie Christie · Jack Warden · Dyan Cannon

Plot When L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty) is plucked from Earth too soon by an overzealous angel, he is sent back to Earth in another, older body. He struggles...

6.1

4K votes

6.1

4K votes

Defending your Life

1991 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Albert Brooks

Cast Meryl Streep · Albert Brooks · Rip Torn · Lee Grant

Plot In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage. Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident...

6.1

731 votes

6.1

731 votes

Eating Raoul

1982 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

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5.8

542 votes

5.8

542 votes

Tales from the Crypt: Beauty Rest (TV)

1992 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Hopkins

Cast Mimi Rogers · Jennifer Rubin · Kathy Ireland · Buck Henry

Plot Life hasn't been easy for model Helen. She is getting older and her dreams of hitting the big time are drying out. So when she finally gets the chance to...

5.7

32 votes

5.7

32 votes

Grumpy Old Men

1993 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Donald Petrie

Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Ann-Margret · Daryl Hannah

Plot John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They're continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day,...

5.7

4K votes

5.7

4K votes

The Man Who Fell to Earth

1976 · Movie · 140 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nicolas Roeg

Cast David Bowie · Rip Torn · Candy Clark · Buck Henry

Plot An alien being travels to Earth in human form with a plan to bring water to his own dying planet. Once on Earth, the superintelligent space traveler begins making the...

5.6

2K votes

5.6

2K votes

Aria

1987 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Altman · Bruce Beresford · Jean-Luc Godard · Derek Jarman

Cast Theresa Russell · Jacques Neuville · Buck Henry · Elizabeth Hurley

Plot Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner),...

5.6

132 votes

5.6

132 votes

The Loop

2011 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Margaret Whitton

Cast Rachel Nichols · Jackson Hurst · Anjanette Comer · Linda Emond

Plot A lonely highway patrolman teams up with a gorgeous librarian to find the owner of a verbose parrot, and together the pair embarks on a most unusual adventure.

5.5

37 votes

5.5

37 votes

The Real Blonde

1997 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Tom DiCillo

Cast Matthew Modine · Daryl Hannah · Catherine Keener · Kathleen Turner

Plot Joe and Mary have been living together in Manhattan for six years. Joe is an actor, who has no agent and no thesping credits, but whose ambitions are very high....

5.3

1K votes

5.3

1K votes

The Linguini Incident

1991 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

5.2

121 votes

5.2

121 votes

Curtain Call

1999 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Peter Yates

Cast James Spader · Michael Caine · Maggie Smith · Polly Walker

Plot Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) and his girlfriend, Julia (Polly Walker), move into a brownstone haunted by an old unhappily married couple (Michael Caine and Maggie Smith). The young woman is...

5.0

137 votes

5.0

137 votes

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

1993 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Gus Van Sant

Cast Uma Thurman · Keanu Reeves · Angie Dickinson · John Hurt

Plot Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY agent 'the Countess'...

4.2

774 votes

4.2

774 votes

Rude Awakening

1989 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction David Greenwalt · Aaron Russo

Cast Eric Roberts · Cheech Marin · Julie Hagerty · Robert Carradine

Plot In the 1960s, two hippies go off into the jungle to evade the FBI. When they come back to New York in the 1980s, their fellow hippie friends have become...

3.8

46 votes

3.8

46 votes