Cast: Richard Dysart

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


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

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