Cast: Richard Dysart
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Richard Dysart. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 48
An Enemy of the People
1978 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction George Schaefer
Cast Steve McQueen · Bibi Andersson · Charles Durning · Richard Dysart
Synopsis A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
7.4
345 votes
7.4
345 votes
Pale Rider
1985 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Clint Eastwood
Cast Clint Eastwood · Sydney Penny · Michael Moriarty · Chris Penn
Synopsis A cadre of men employed by powerful strip-miner Coy LaHood (Richard Dysart) rides into a small mining encampment and begins shooting up the place. One of the terrorists kills the dog of young Megan Wheeler's (Sydney Penny). As Megan buries...
7.4
19K votes
7.4
19K votes
The Thing
1982 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Carpenter
Cast Kurt Russell · Wilford Brimley · Keith David · David Clennon
Synopsis In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a norwegian helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human beings and canines in the...
7.3
48K votes
7.3
48K votes
Being There
1979 · Movie · 130 min. · United States
Direction Hal Ashby
Cast Peter Sellers · Shirley MacLaine · Melvyn Douglas · Jack Warden
Synopsis This profound and humorous commentary on the pervasive effects of television features Peter Sellers, who portrays Chance the gardener, a man who views the world as he would TV - watching and reacting. His simple solutions make him a national...
7.2
6K votes
7.2
6K votes
Wall Street
1987 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Oliver Stone
Cast Michael Douglas · Charlie Sheen · Daryl Hannah · Terence Stamp
Synopsis Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with...
6.8
28K votes
6.8
28K votes
The Day of the Locust
1975 · Movie · 144 min. · United States
Direction John Schlesinger
Cast Donald Sutherland · Karen Black · William Atherton · Burgess Meredith
Synopsis Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930's Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on...
6.6
467 votes
6.6
467 votes
Back to the Future. Part III
1990 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Robert Zemeckis
Cast Michael J. Fox · Christopher Lloyd · Mary Steenburgen · Thomas F. Wilson
Synopsis The final segment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty McFly in the wild west the year 1885. In an attempt to save Doc from Bill Tannen's outlaw grandfather, Marty digs up the old Delorean, fits it with...
6.6
53K votes
6.6
53K votes
Columbo: Murder Under Glass (TV)
1978 · Movie · 74 min. · United States
Direction Jonathan Demme
Cast Peter Falk · Louis Jourdan · Shera Danese · Richard Dysart
Synopsis Paul Gerard is a famous gourmet and his books about restaurants can decide the fate of a chef. In his way, Paul is a very powerful man. But Paul is threatened by Vittorio Rossi, the proprietor of a renowned restaurant...
6.5
303 votes
6.5
303 votes
Panther
1995 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Mario Van Peebles
Cast Kadeem Hardison · Bokeem Woodbine · Joe Don Baker · Courtney B. Vance
6.5
186 votes
6.5
186 votes
Mask
1985 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Peter Bogdanovich
Cast Cher · Eric Stoltz · Sam Elliott · Richard Dysart
Synopsis Rusty Dennis is the mother of Rocky, a seriously deformed but extremely intelligent and emotionally warm child. Rusty is a no-nonsense mother whose wild lifestyle is often at odds with her tenderness and protectiveness towards Rocky. She is determined that...
6.3
5K votes
6.3
5K votes
The Hospital
1971 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Arthur Hiller
Cast George C. Scott · Diana Rigg · Barnard Hughes · Nancy Marchand
Synopsis Herbert Block (George C. Scott) is chief of medicine in a major teaching hospital. His wife has left him, he is impotent and his children have both disowned him. He is toying with the idea of suicide when patients begin...
6.2
302 votes
6.2
302 votes
L.A. Law TV Series) (TV Series)
1986 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Steven Bochco · Terry Louise Fisher · Win Phelps · Elodie Keene
Cast Jimmy Smits · Corbin Bernsen · Michele Greene · Harry Hamlin
Synopsis TV Series (1986-1994). 8 seasons. 172 episodes. The lives and work of the staff of a major Los Angeles law firm. The plots were strongly character-based and dealt with both the personal lives and professional activities of the partners, associates,...
6.1
2K votes
6.1
2K votes
Petulia
1968 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Lester
Cast Julie Christie · George C. Scott · Richard Chamberlain · Arthur Hill
Synopsis A married doctor falls for the young wife of an abusive rich man.
6.0
317 votes
6.0
317 votes
The Falcon and the Snowman
1985 · Movie · 131 min. · United States
Direction John Schlesinger
Cast Timothy Hutton · Sean Penn · Pat Hingle · Joyce Van Patten
Synopsis John Schlesinger directed this fact-based drama - adapted from Robert Lindsay's bestseller of the same title -- about two Californians, friends since boyhood, who are caught selling government secrets to the Soviet Union. Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) is an all-American...
5.9
726 votes
5.9
726 votes
The Hindenburg
1975 · Movie · 125 min. · United States
Direction Robert Wise
Cast George C. Scott · Anne Bancroft · William Atherton · Roy Thinnes
Synopsis Geramany, 1937. Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, finds himself assigned to the flight of the Hindenburg as chief of security; reports and rumors about the destruction of the zeppelin have...
5.9
1K votes
5.9
1K votes
Warning Sign
1985 · Movie · 99 min. · United States
Direction Hal Barwood
Cast Sam Waterston · Kathleen Quinlan · Yaphet Kotto · Jeffrey DeMunn
Synopsis In an ultra secret laboratory for the developing of biological weapons, covered as "Biotek", a research center for agriculture, a serious accident occurs, spreading a sinister bacteria in the laboratory. The security guard of the complex, closes and seals the...
5.4
69 votes
5.4
69 votes
Truman (TV)
1995 · Movie · 135 min. · United States
Direction Frank Pierson
Cast Gary Sinise · Diana Scarwid · Tony Goldwyn · Lois Smith
Synopsis Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decission to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.
5.0
30 votes
5.0
30 votes
Prophecy
1979 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction John Frankenheimer
Cast Robert Foxworth · Talia Shire · Armand Assante · Richard Dysart
Synopsis A Savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside.
4.9
400 votes
4.9
400 votes
Hard Rain
1998 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Mikael Salomon
Cast Morgan Freeman · Christian Slater · Randy Quaid · Minnie Driver
Synopsis Rising flood waters imperil the residents of a Midwestern town, but to a gang of thieves, the disaster is an opportunity--to waltz off with the contents of a bank vault abandoned by the evacuated townspeople. Something they didn't count on...
4.9
6K votes
4.9
6K votes
The Last Days of Patton (TV)
1986 · Movie · 146 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast George C. Scott · Eva Marie Saint · Richard Dysart · Murray Hamilton
Synopsis Sixteen years after his Oscar-winning performance as General Patton, actor George C. Scott once again played the famous military leader in this made-for-TV-movie. Following the close of World War II, General George S. Patton is seriously injured in a car...
4.9
191 votes
4.9
191 votes